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SUNDAY AM: Sources have given me the following preliminary numbers for domestic grosses Friday, Saturday, and Easter weekend for the Top 3 movies:
1. Clash Of The Titans from Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures debuted to $26.3M Friday and $21.5M Saturday from 3,777 theaters. Either the NCAA Final Four, or poor word of mouth, appears to have accounted for the downturn. The studio now says it made $2.6M from Thursday night’s 8 PM and 10 PM showings, and another $1.6M from midnight plays which counted towards Friday’s total. Including Sunday’s estimate, that’s a 3.5 day cume of $64M, or $61.4M for a record Easter weekend helped by higher 3D ticket prices. (The previous best was 2006′s 2D Scary Movie 4 which opened to $40M.) Warner Bros said 52% of audiences saw the film in 3D. Clash debuted day and date in 15 international markets and generated a big $44.2M with 7,900 admissions from 4,240 screens. The 3D screens grossed $24.3M from 1,270 screens (55% of total box office from 30% of total screens).
2. Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too for Lionsgate reached $30.1M this weekend after taking in $12.3M Friday and $10.6M Saturday from 2,155 runs. It’s the 2nd biggest Tyler Perry opening out of the nine films he’s released (behind Madea Goes To Jail‘s $41M).
3. DreamWorks Animation’s How To Train Your Dragon distributed by Paramount took in $11.1M Friday and $11.1M Saturday for $29.2M this weekend (-33%) from 4,060 locations. IMAX accounted for $3.6M (or 12.5%) of this weekend’s gross, leaving no theaters for Clash. That’s a new cume of $92.3M.
4. Disney’s Miley Cyrus starrer The Last Song from the Nicholas Sparks novel opened to $7.1M Friday and $5.9M Saturday from 2,673 plays and reached $16.2M this weekend with a $25.6M five-day cume after Sunday.
5. Disney’s 3D Alice In Wonderland from Tim Burton starts its 5th weekend with $3M Friday and $3.1M Saturday from 2,980 venues and an $8.2M weekend and $309.7M cume. With $422.3M international, the worldwide total is now $732.1M.
6. Hot Tub Time Machine (MGM/UA) Week 2 [2,771 Theaters] Friday $2.9M, Saturday $3M, Weekend $8M (-43%), Cume $27.8M
7. The Bounty Hunter (Sony) Week 3 [3,118 Theaters] Friday $2.4M, Saturday $2.3M, Weekend $6.2M, Cume $48.9M
8. Diary Of A Wimpy Kid (Fox) Week 3 [2,842 Theaters] Friday $2.3M, Saturday$1.8M, Weekend $5.5M, Cume $46.2M
9. She’s Out Of My League (Paramount) Week 4 [1,390 Theaters] Friday $552K, Saturday $562M, Weekend $1.4M, Cume $28.6M
10. Shutter Island (Paramount) Week 7 [1,356 Theaters] Friday $530K, Saturday $583K, Weekend $1.4M, Cume $123.4M
FRIDAY 6 PM: Sources telling me Clash Of The Titans already looking to make $25M-$30M today.
FRIDAY NOON: The Warner Bros blockbuster co-produced and co-financed by Legendary Pictures is off to an impressive 3 1/2-day Easter Weekend after playing 8 PM and 10 PM in 3,004 locations Thursday night. Clash Of The Titans is certain to record the biggest Easter weekend ever helped by higher 3D ticket prices (2006′s 2D Scary Movie 4 did $40M) given that Hollywood is estimating that Clash will finish Sunday with a cume of $70M from 3,777 theaters, or $65M for just the 3-day holiday weekend. (Warner Bros, of course, is trying to manage expectations with an estimate of $55M.) Despite the crowded 3D box office, Warner Bros eked out 1,810 3D screens, but no IMAX screens since those had been committed 2 years ago to DreamWorks Animation/Paramount. The Sam Worthington starrer was originally a 2D film set for release last weekend. But then it was upped to 3D and pushed back a week.
This weekend’s expected huge debut follows a memorable marketing campaign including trailers and TV ads that camped up Clash‘s 3D-special effects and plot and characters. Best was Liam Neeson, dressed like the 5th member of Kiss, staring into the camera and shouting, “Release The Kraken” — which already has become a pop culture catchphrase in recent weeks. (One reviewer hoped the snarling gruesome beast gets a Best Supporting Actor nod next year…)
The rest of this weekend’s Top 4 movies — Miley Cyrus’ The Last Song for Disney, Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too for Lionsgate, and 3D holdover How To Train Your Dragon which still needs to make up last weekend’s disappointing debut – should finish Easter weekend with cumes in the $20M-$25M range. Meanwhile Tim Burton’s 3D Alice In Wonderland for Disney should finish its 5th weekend with a strong $10M.
Based on yet another Nicholas Sparks novel (The Notebook, Dear John) with the good fortune to be a Miley Cyrus vehicle, Disney’s The Last Song opened Wednesday in 2,673 locations with $5.1M and its current cume is $9.3M. Disney is managing expectations with a low $20sM estimate by Sunday. “Miley is unpredictable [in movies],” an insider tells me. “Disney. Adam Shankman. Everyone is on the edge of their seats. They moved this movie to Wednesday from Friday when Clash Of The Titans moved on to the weekend.” Co-star Liam Hemsworth is one of the hunky Australian brothers (EXCLUSIVE: Chris Hemsworth Is ‘Thor’) whose overnight success is one of those great Hollywood backstories that happens only once in a blue moon. Liam had only been in Los Angeles for 3 weeks and didn’t even have an agent when he got cast as the male lead opposite Miley. Both brothers were living in their manager William Ward’s guest house at the time. No more. Liam just got cast in Arabian Nights.
Lionsgate releases Tyler Perry’s sequel Why Did I Get Married Too for 2,155 runs. The October 2007 original grossed $55.2M domestic, including a $21.3M opening weekend. The fact this new one also stars Janet Jackson (whose first Oprah Winfrey Show appearance since Michael’s death airs today) will help it at the crowded box office. Expect a $23M Easter weekend.
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Boycott this fake 3-d remake, and stop casting the wooden Jake Sully
Awwwww how cute….. Someone’s jealous of Worthington’s success…. the guy is a superstar now… get over it.
You may read the reviews of the film. Wooden does not even begin to describe his performance(s). I think we have the pleasure to the new Orlando Bloom.
Superstars open movies without built in audiences. There’s no proof Worthington can accomplish that. Heck, I didn’t even know the dude was in Clash of the Titans until this week when he did interviews claiming he could do other roles other than spectacle crap.
AMEN!
I just saw Titans and I can say it was ok. Worrington was BORING. He seemed more like a extra then the actual main character. I dont know how this guys finds work. He is so BLAND it makes one think how he got the part.
Just saw the emotional How did I get married too — what great performances — especially Tasha Smith — who should really get an oscar nomination, if this movie were in another type of movie, she would be a shoo in.
How to train a dragon is A GREAT MOVIE that is as good as UP.
Keep smoking that meth, brother. Pretty soon, Heroes will be good to you, too.
Did you take a puff, too? Perry makes trite garbage, but Tasha Smith is extremely talented.
WB has to be really disappointed with the numbers! Look at that HUGE Saturday drop-off! This movie is not going to have legs – I can’t believe how much it dropped off on Saturday – I don’t think this movie will get to $200m domestic even. WB execs were raving about this movie saying how huge it’s going to be – I wonder who they will start blaming Monday morning. This is a huge disappointment – I work on the WB lot and let me tell you everyone thought this was going to make over $500m worldwide. Serves them right for making such crap – and how cheap is WB to pick the cheapest 3D conversion they could possibly get and convert to 3D in 8 weeks! Pathetic! That’s what you get. They spent $150 million on this movie. A terrible remake or a terrible movie. Congrats WB execs!
Given how much 3D has raised ticket prices, box office numbers don’t impress me much anymore. Every 3D film is a blockbuster.
Wow what a stupid comment. The 3D prices argument goes both ways. There are still millions of people like YOU who refuse to see 3D movies and pay the extra money. It also hurts people seeing it more than once.
Just wait till Smellovision makes a comeback and one ticket costs $50.
They actually have some movie theaters like that in South Korea. They call it 4D, and the chairs rock to the movie effects, and etc.
I’m holding out for Feel-around.
/KFM, anyone?
*LAUGH*
“And the capitol of Nebraska is Lincoln!”
Yes, we need “Feel Around”!
Still won’t come close to ALICE IN WONDERLAND… Alice is supposed to break 700 million worldwide this weekend and it still hasn’t opened in Japan yet. And it just opened in China and France.
Wow – that’s amazing – how come no one is talking about Alice about to make close to $1 billion worldwide. I think it’s great that a film targeted towards women and girls is making this much money yet no one is talking about it. This will probably be the biggest movie of the year or one of them – what other movies this year are going to come close to $1 billion??? I wish more female journalists would talk about the success of this film! And shame on Amy Pascal, another leading female studio executive for passing on this – according to LA Times article.
Does that even cover the p+a spend?
-RnsW
I didn’t think a movie could exist that would make the original Harry Hamlin “Clash of the Titans” look like a masterpiece (well, at least more than a silly, “Xanadu”-esque take on the gods), but this one does the trick. It’s not just bad, it’s boring.
Looks like it’s going to be a big, BIG weekend! I’m seeing $83 million for Clash Of The Titans, $18 million for The Last Song ($27 million including Wed and Thurs), and $23 million for Why Did I Get Married Too?!!!!
I enjoyed the hell out of Clash last night. Huge fun.
In Sweden, “Kraken” means “Weakling”…
That’s just what they told you in the bar when you tried to pick up girls. telling them you were going to release the Kracken.
CLASH will die off due to word of mouth. Its essentially overblown overhyped kid flick without a story just cobbled together action sequences none of which fully play out Im glad it only cost me $12 for two tickets, I cant imagine paying the extra cost to see this in 3D. This will be a nail in the 3D coffin, trust me.
Saw CLASH last night in 2D. My perspective was that only two or three sequences would have benefited from a 3D effect anyway, so definitely no need to spend the extra money to see it in 3D.
Visually it was fine. The effects were fine, albeit instantly forgettable. Credit Ralph Feinnes and Liam Neeson for at least immersing themselves with their performance, as long as they were collecting a paycheck. Verdict still out on whether Worthington can actually act, or whether he is just a good-looking guy with an accent.
Biggest problem with the movie is that it lacked any heart or emotion and the storyline was disjointed. And essentially, if you can’t bring yourself to care about any of the characters and don’t feel emotionally-invested in them, then all the effects in the world can’t save the movie because you just don’t care about what you’re watching.
Strongly recommend that everyone pass on this one. A waste of time and money. Male, mid-30′s.
Remarkable for such a pathetic film. Everything felt fake. No stakes. No story. Truly a polished turd.
Frank has no idea what he is talking about. Clash is a very entertaining and fun film, better than other 3d films like Avatar and Alice.
actually it appears many on here agree with Frank
Lies…
The 3D in this film was awful. It was so piss poor and the story sucked…
Haven’t heard good things about the movie or the 3D especially. Heard the 3D was distracting and blurry, mostly due to the crappy post-conversion rush job.
1D…2D…3D…4D…no matter how many D’s this movie has…it still sucks on EVERY level of filmmaking!
I enjoyed Clash of the Titans very much.
It kept me on the edge of my sit during many scenes. Fun popcorn movie. I dont think they ever said that this is more than a fun entertainment movie.
Well done.
And yes I watched it in 2D, 3D wasnt available at my cinema. Alice and Dargon still the only ones in 3D over here.
wow, what a Cheeze-fest.
Processed food turned into celluloid. The 3D was a joke.
The accents were a Waring Blender. Zeus is Irish, Hades is British and Poseidon speaks with a US accent. And Perseus calls Medusa “a bitch”.
With all the clusterfuck to the facts of Mythology, they don’t want to cast any black or asian people in the film. If you are taking liberties, why not take interesting ones? I should just be grateful at this point that Perseus didn’t say “Awesome” or “and like” every third word. Oy vey.
Everyone in my Facebook and Twitter streams kept going on and on and on about how every screening of Why Did I Get Married Too? was sold out. I forgot this was being released on Easter weekend, of course Perry and the ‘Gate were going to clean up.
I really want to see Clash, though.
The bottom will fall out of Married this week. As always front-loaded one shot crapfest movie from Perry.
I would agree with you except for the fact that people know what to expect from a Tyler Perry movie…and they keep coming back for more.
p.s. How about Bounty Hunter?… where are all the ANISTON PLANTS this week? i miss hearing how amazing it is!
The Last Song with Miley Cyrus was AMAZING!!!
Er, direction?
Poor Miley Cyrus was SAVAGED by the reviews. What happened? She was great a year ago in Hannah Montana: The Movie.
why did you edit what you wrote about the tyler perry movie? it’s true. the film’s got zero-chance in foreign markets.
I snuck out of work early to see “clash of the titans”. all i can say is, this film is an embarrassment to the film industry. yay for the big opening weekend. but come on what a huge waste of talent this film is. why on god’s good earth would liam neesan take this role after the brilliant role he had in “taken”? did wb really pay him that much money? and what the hell is sam worthington doing with his career? it’s one CG film after the other. but this one is completely laughable. the script and dialogue were so unbelievably cheesy! i want my money back! who do i call about that?
plesehelp, get over yourself. Clash is a good popcorn film, it serves it’s purpose and is entertaining. Dialogue is cheesy ? Not really, it’s just fine for an action movie.
i want my money back too! clash is god awful! horrible! so badly acted, written, directed! but the worst part is the 3D doesn’t exist, that process 2D to 3D is a joke, there are no effects, no dimension in Clash (oh yes the coin for Caron bouncing on the water, amazing effect, one!), i didn’t care for Avatar that much but the 3D was great, Clash 3D is just so amazingly BAD! i’ve decided to boycott all the next 2D to 3D movies, i’ll go see them in 2D. Completely feel like someone stole my money after watching that film.
Chris, go see it in 2d. It’s a good popcorn film in 2d. And while the acting is cheesy, the writing and direction is fine for a film of it’s nature. You people praise Avatar AKA Dances with Smurfs and yet bash an actually good movie in Clash.
Why is no one talking about how damn good HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON is? Yeah, I know it was marketed as a kids movie, and it had a disappointing opening weekend ($44 M, real disappointing) which Dreamworks had to publicly apologize for, once their stock went down 8%.
All of that obscuring the fact that this is one of the most solid pieces of cinematic writing to come out in years (don’t complain about CLASH OF THE TITANS script — go see DRAGONS!), and a truly exceptional movie experience, in 2D or in 3D.
Check out how much it’s making during the week, and how small the dropoff is going to be. This movie should be around for a LONG TIME!
HTTYD is a really charming movie, it worked on every level. I’d be very surprised if word of mouth wasn’t very strong.
Dragon was phenomenal. UP there with Pixar’s best.
I saw this earlier tonight, and it was hilarious. They should’ve marketed this as a comedy.
Yeah, word of mouth on How to Train Your Dragon is through the roof, whereas Clash’s is consistent, too: stay away. One’s gonna drop like a stone and the other will be around a long time.
after the brilliant role he had in “taken
lol, that movie sucked
Another solid result for Miley, but I really thought she had a chance to knock it out of the park. But it was too edgy, and no Hannah Montana fans showed up. Mostly girls Miley’s age (17). But I guess it’s “edginess” was the whole point of the excercise.