So the surprise this weekend has to be Fox’s Rio considering it made more this Friday than it did on its opening day last Friday. I guess those 16 extra theaters it moved into were in neighborhoods dying to see an animated bird get into some wacky trouble. Should Rio follow a similar trend to last weekend’s Saturday and Sunday it’s looking at a $40 million weekend, but considering people were probably off due to the start of spring break I’m going to guess a little lower and say $36 million.
As far as Laremy and Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family to come in at number one with $34.32 million, but after a $10.4 million Friday, I’m expecting it to come in second at around $29.5 million. At least, that’s what the history of his Madea films at the box-office suggests.
In third is Fox’s Water for Elephants giving the studio two of the top three slots. Water is over-performing as it was expected by most to land around $15 million, but after Friday’s estimated $7 million, that could end up closer to $18m for the weekend making Laremy’s $18.31 million projection look pretty good.
The Easter themed Hop from Universal took home $4.6 million on Friday and will likely end up around $12 million for the weekend.
The week’s only other newcomer to crack the top ten was Disney’s African Cats, which took in an estimated $3.1 million and should remain steady and end around $9 million for the three-day.
I’ve included Friday’s top ten estimates directly below and I’ll be back tomorrow morning with a complete weekend wrap-up.
- Rio – $10.8 million
- Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family – $10.4 million
- Water for Elephants – $7 million
- Hop – $4.6 million
- African Cats – $3.1 million
- Scream 4 – $2.6 million
- Soul Surfer – $2.2 million
- Insidious – $2 million
- Source Code – $1.7 million
- Hanna – $1.63 million
