Posts Tagged ‘Predictions’
 

 

The Sked: The Voice & Smash Predictions for Monday after the Super Bowl

>If you haven’t heard that NBC’s biggest hope for its lost season, Smash, premieres the Monday after the Super Bowl, you don’t watch television or listen to the radio or look at billboards or go online or read...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 7/6/12

  A great start for the weekend, if you overlook the fact that 2 of the 3 new arrivals flopped. OPENINGS:  THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Sony) has successfully rebooted the franchise, no question about it.  (Unless it tanks ov...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’S BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 9/21/12

  Nearly identical opening numbers for 3 new movies mean different things. OPENINGS:  Thanks to its older audience, TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (Warners) may end up winning the weekend, and certainly having the highest overall...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS March 29-31

The 13th weekend of 2013 looks like it will be even with the pace for the comparable weekend the past few years.  The top 12 films Friday-Sunday should total about $144 million. Opening at a very high 3,719 theaters Thursday, ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

FRIDAY JULY 26 Box Office Report

Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #30 of 2013 looks like a decent $159 million for the top 12 films, comfortably above the same weekend the last few years. The Wolverine is way off our projected opening but still but sti...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 22 Box Office Report

Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #47 of 2013 looks like $211 million for the top 12 films — not quite up to the standard of the weekend before Thanksgiving but not an embarrassment.   Opening at 4,163 theaters Fr...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

FRIDAY MARCH 21 Box Office Report

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #12 of 2014 looks like $131 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, very similar to the same weekend last year and 8% below the average for this weekend the past several years.   Op...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

FRIDAY JULY 11 Box Office Report

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #28 of 2014 looks like $134 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, 30% below the norm for this weekend and very close to our forecast ($135 million). Opening at 3,967 theaters, Dawn...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Weekend Box Office Predictions 11.7-9.2014

Weekend #45 of 2014 is looking like $167 million for the top 12 films this weekend, up 19% from the norm for this weekend.   Opening at 3,500 theaters Friday (well above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Weekend Box Office Predictions 2.13-15.2015

Weekend #7 of 2015 is looking like $179 million for the top 12 films this weekend (Friday-Sunday), well above the normal volume for this weekend and above last year, which was also a strong Presidents Day Weekend (see track bel...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Weekend Box Office Predictions 5.8-10.2015

Weekend #19 of 2015 is looking like $126 million for the top 12 films this weekend, somewhat below the norm for this weekend. Opening at around 2,700 theaters Friday (slightly below the 2,886 average theater count for opening ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Weekend Box Office Predictions 7.24-26.2015

Weekend #30 of 2015 is looking like $170 million for the top 12 films this weekend, above the norm for this weekend (see comparisons below). Pixels from Sony should open with a $37.5 million three-day weekend. Early reviews at...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

Weekend Box Office Predictions 11.13-15.2015

Weekend #46 of 2015 is looking like a tepid $102 million for the top 12 films this weekend, well below the norm for this weekend (see comparisons below). The 33 from Warner Brothers should open with a $8.0 million weekend...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS March 23-25

>The 12th weekend of the year should be a whopper: about $176 million for the top 12 films.  How big is that for the fourth weekend in March?  Enormous, unprecedented: up 62% from last year’s comparable weekend ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: “Dark Knight Rises” Actual Weekend Numbers

  After a moratorium on official boxoffice pronouncements due to the tragic events in Colorado, Warners has officially released the weekend boxoffice figure for THE DARK KNIGHT RISES:  $160.9M.  This is where the unoffic...
by Mitch Salem