WEEKLY BOX OFFICE ACTUALS & YEAR TO DATE September 17-23

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The Past Week: Total Box Office Volume

All films in wide release playing between September 17 and September 23 grossed a weak $107 million, down 12% from the four-year average for the week and down a big 24% from the same week last year.  We have to go back to the same week in 2007 to find a comparably bad performance ($102 million for September 17-23, 2007, when Resident Evil: Extinction, Good Luck Chuck, The Brave One, 3:10 to Yuma and Eastern Promises topped the chart).  

The past six weeks are still down 4% from the four-year average box office average but now down a more significant 8% from the same six-week period last year.  Year to date box office (closing in on $7.5 billion for wide-release films) continues to cling to a 5% gain from the average for the past four years and a 4% gain over last year at this time.

Weekend Actuals versus Studio Estimate

End of Watch came in officially at $13,152,683 today for its opening weekend, up 1.2% from the Open Road Films estimate Sunday morning — the most conservative, and accurate, new film estimate this week.  

House at the End of the Street came in at $12,287,234 in its opening weekend, down 5.5% from the Relativity estimate — a pretty bad forecast.

Trouble with the Curve ended up grossing $12,162, 040 in its first weekend, down 4.4% from the Warner Brothers estimate Sunday.

But Weinstein Company wins the big award for overstatement Sunday morning.  The Master ended up grossing $4,391,092 in its first somewhat wide weekend, down an embarassing 12.2% from the bloated Sunday morning weekend estimate.

Updated Estimates of Final Grosses

The ShowbuzzDaily Domestic Grosses (the estimated North American gross when the film ends its run) are summarized below for films released the last six weeks. Pay attention to the final domestic grosses, which are much more important than individual weekend grosses and especially weekend rankings.