Weekend Box-Office: ‘Cars 2’ Hauls in $68 Million While ‘Green Lantern’ Tumbles Mightily
By
Brad Brevet
The obvious film took #1, but it appears most films didn’t perform as well as their Friday numbers suggested they would. Nevertheless, it was still the second highest weekend of the year for the top twelve at the box-office, which I guess means a little something.
Laremy predicted the #1 movie correctly 8 Weeks In A Row
If you want to talk over-performing, I would suggest talking about Bad Teacher. Tracking on this one was no higher than $25 million and it busted the door down with a result many are crediting Bridesmaids with as raunchy female comedies may become the next big thing for a year or so.
However, I would think “Saturday Night Life” favorite Justin Timberlake probably helped this result as much as anything, which has me wondering how well Friends with Benefits will end up doing next month.
As far as predictions go, Laremy was right around tracking and Oscar Smarty was almost on the button with a $30.1 million projection.
Result: $31 million Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #2 with $26.4 million, which is $4.6m off for a 14.84% error.
Wow, wow, wow… A 65% drop in its second weekend is not good. There is no spinning it one way or another. It’s a sign word of mouth was as bad as the reviews. Any chance Warner Bros. does what Universal did with their green superhero and tries to reboot this franchise in a few years?
At $89.3 million, any chance this one breaks $125 million overall?
Result: $18.3 million Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #3 with $23.929 million, which is $5.629m off for a 30.76% error.
A 43% drop from last weekend is a little higher than I would have expected. After last weekend’s actuals came in the drop was only 39% and I would have thought this would be able to hover around 35% or so for a couple weeks, but I have to assume the number of similar films for its target audience didn’t help.
I wonder if Paramount had released this in January if they wouldn’t have had a bigger hit on their hands during a time when most PG-13 films are just crap and unimaginative.
Result: $12.1 million Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #4 with $13.955 million, which is $1.855m off for a 15.33% error.
The weekend was not as kind to family films as I thought it would be. After an estimated $3.6 million on Friday it looked like Mr. Popper’s Penguins would head to around a $13 million weekend, but $10.3m still isn’t too bad, making for a 44% drop in its second weekend.
Result: $10.3 million Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #5 with $8.3 million, which is $2m off for a 19.42% error.
This latest installment in the X-Men franchise is now over $132 million on a reported $160 million budget. Current overseas totals adds $164 to that number, which makes for a solid result so far. Thor is still the comic book leader this summer and I wonder if Captain America: The First Avenger can beat it.
Result: $6.6 million Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #6 with $5.742 million, which is $0.858m off for a 13% error.
The Hangover Part II is now the second highest domestic grossing R-rated comedy of all-time, $38 million behind its predecessor and $5 million ahead of Beverly Hills Cop. Worldwide, however, it is the #1 grossing R-rated comedy. How you like them apples?
Result: $5.8 million Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #8 with $4.401 million, which is $1.399m off for a 24.12% error.
Only a 24% drop from last weekend for one of the funnier films of the year and probably the funniest film of the summer so far. Made for only $32.5 million, that domestic total of $146 million has got to taste good to Universal.
Result: $5.3 million Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #10 with $3.586 million, which is $1.714m off for a 32.34% error.
Can you believe this film is nearing $1 billion as it is now around $976 million worldwide? It edged out Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone this weekend and is now looking to become the eighth member of the $1 billion club. The list looks like this:
Avatar – $2.78 billion
Titanic – $1.84 billion
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – $1.11 billion
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest – $1.066 billion
A press release was sent out this week boasting how Midnight in Paris was now Woody Allen’s highest grossing film in 25 years, which was when Hannah and Her Sisters made $40 million back in ’86. It now sits at $28.5 million domestically and over $51 million worldwide. I have no way of knowing just how well it will do overall. Any of you think that $40 million number is in jeopardy?
Result: $4.4 million Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #7 with $4.558 million, which is $0.158m off for a 3.59% error.
Elsewhere, The Tree of Life continued to expand and added another $1.3 million to its now $5.8 million cume and Chris Weitz’s limited release A Better Life opened to $60,000 from four theaters.
Otherwise, the conversation now turns to Transformers: Dark of the Moon which is boasting epic action sequences and bigger, better and brighter 3D. Paramount originally planned a July 1 release and then they moved it back to June 29 and then they added 9PM IMAX 3D showings on June 28, which essentially creates a “seven day weekend”. I am seeing it tomorrow night and will be writing a review as soon as I can afterward… How high do you think it will go? And be sure to specify the number of days you are predicting.
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