With the weekend on the horizon it looks like Ice Age: Continental Drift is going to threaten a $50 million opening despite the fact Fox was trying to shuttle out there nothing more than a high-$30 million result to lower expectations. Yeah, right. After $16.5 million on Friday, the pic is looking decent so far and overall should fair better than the last installment’s $66.7 million over its first six days after opening on a Tuesday in 2009.
Ice Age, however, is already a massive hit worldwide, bringing in over $235 million internationally before even hitting domestic theaters. The film has made approximately $254.5 million so far on a budget I’ve seen reported around $85-100 million. Either way, I think an Ice Age 5 has already got to be in the works.
In second is last weekend’s #1, The Amazing Spider-Man which is looking at a solid 50% drop after last weekend’s $62 million bow.
Last weekend’s other new release, Oliver Stone‘s Savagaes, opened to the tune of $16 million and after $2.7 million on Friday it looks like it will fade pretty quickly.
After opening on Wednesday in only one theater, the Weinstein’s Easy Money has so far brought in only $9,000, $5,900 of that coming from Friday were it expanded to… get this… two theaters. Yeah, it’s a big one.
As of posting this update there were no results for Millennium’s Red Lights, which only opened in two theaters this weekend as well or Michael Winterbottom’s Trishna or the much-talked-about doc, The Imposter.
I have included the Friday top ten directly below and will be back tomorrow morning with a full weekend recap.
- Ice Age: Continental Drift – $16.5 million
- The Amazing Spider-Man – $10.3 million
- Ted – $6.9 million
- Magic Mike – $3.4 million
- Brave – $3.2 million
- Savages – $2.7 million
- Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection – $1.7 million
- Katy Perry: Part of Me – $1.3 million
- Madasgascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted – $1 million
- Moonrise Kingdom – $965,000
