Looks like people were ready to cut loose and kick off their Sunday shoes as Paramount’s Footloose remake takes the top spot at the Friday box-office and should coast to a first place finish for the weekend. Coming in with an estimated $5.5 million on Friday the flick should expect somewhere around $17 million for the weekend, which is about all the excitement I can generate for yet another lackluster weekend at the box-office.
It’s getting harder and harder to get energized about each week’s new films when they’re all so mediocre and when people aren’t turning out in droves to see them. Paranormal Activity 3 should crack the $20 million mark next week, but it’s getting to the point I’m actually looking forward to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 just so we have some bigger box-office news to talk about.
Coming in second on Friday is last week’s holdover Real Steel with $4.5 million and a weekend that should be somewhere in the $15 million range for a 45% drop. Not bad, not great… moving on.
The Thing took in $3.2 million and will likely end the weekend around $9-9.5 million, serving as a minor blip on the box-office radar. Behind it is The Ides of March with $2.2 million, which could mean a weekend around $7 million and a 32% drop. Not bad, but when you can’t crack $11 million on your opening weekend you can expect small drops like that, but not very big numbers as a result.
The top five is rounded out by Moneyball with $1.7 million and you have to head down to #8 to find Fox’s The Big Year, which is playing in 1,399 fewer theaters than Footloose but was actually the best new wide release on the board.
There aren’t any numbers on the limited release of Pedro Almodovar‘s The Skin I Live In or Ami Canaan Mann‘s Texas Killing Fields yet, but hopefully I’ll have those to share tomorrow morning with the complete weekend wrap-up. In the meantime, chat amongst yourselves as I’ve included the Friday top ten below and will see you back here tomorrow morning.
- Footloose – $5.5 million
- Real Steel – $4.5 million
- The Thing – $3.2 million
- The Ides of March – $2.2 million
- Moneyball – $1.7 million
- Dolphin Tale – $1.6 million
- 50/50 – $1.3 million
- The Big Year – $1.1 million
- Courageous – $1 million
- The Lion King in 3D – $721,000
