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SATURDAY PM:/SUNDAY AM UPDATE: Great to finally be on vacation, and even better that it’s a sloooow weekend at the box office while I’m gone.Sony is responsible for 54% of this quiet weekend’s estimated $75M box office grosses, and this is the studio’s 5th No. 1 opener this year:
1. Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D (Screen Gems/Sony) NEW [3,203 Theaters]
Friday $10.9M, Saturday $10M, Weekend $28M
The only major studio film opening is Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D, an easy #1 because it’ was shot in 3D, not converted, and it booked 2,000 3D screens among its 3,203 locations in North America, including 164 digital IMAX screens domestically for a 2-week run, and another 24 IMAX screens internationally. The previous three pics have opened between $17.7M in March 2002 to a high of $23.6M in September 2007, so 3D’s heftier ticket prices are responsible for this fourquel’s biggest numbers. Pic is another in that “world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice, continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety” franchise. This time, Los Angeles is filled with zombies, and Milla Jovovich again kicks butt, and again the latest installment is written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, who also produces with Jeremy Bolt and others. Sony gave it a high-profile presence at all the major sci-fi, horror, and other genre conventions.
Pic also opened great internationally this week, beating RE3 in Japan, Russia, Mexico, Spain, UK and others after Sony acquired the rights to most foreign territories for $52M. Afterlife opened to an estimated $45.5 million overseas, more than 2.5 times the openings of RE3 in the same territories. The worldwide weekend was over $73M.
2. Takers (Screen Gems/Sony) Week 3 [2,191 Theaters]
Friday $1.7M, Saturday $2.5M, Weekend $5.9M, Estimated Cume $48M
3. The American (Focus Features) Week 2 [2,833 Theaters]
Friday $1.7M, Saturday $2.4M, Weekend $5.8M (-56%), Estimated Cume $28.2M
Uh-oh, George: not a great hold and not a good per-screen average one week out.
4. Machete (Fox) Week 2 [2,678 Theaters]
Friday $1.3M, Saturday $1.7M, Weekend $4.2M (-63%), Estimated Cume $20.8M
This is an anemic hold. Not what anyone expected. Good thing Fox got this Robert Rodriguez movie on the cheap.
5. Going The Distance (NL/Warner Bros) Week 2 [3,030 Theaters]
Friday $1.3M (-42%), Saturday $1.6M, Weekend $3.8M (-44%), Estimated Cume $14M
Considering how low last Friday’s opening was, this hold isn’t all that impressive. Next stop for both Drew and Justin? TV.
6. The Other Guys (Sony) Week 6 [2,246 Theaters]
Friday $1M, Saturday $1.6M, Weekend $3.7M, Estimated Cume $112.8M
7. The Last Exorcism (Lionsgate) Week 3 [2,731 Theaters]
Friday $1.0M, Saturday $1.6M, Weekend $3.5M, Estimated Cume $38.2M
8. The Expendables (Lionsgate) Week 5 [3,058 Theaters]
Friday $940K, Saturday $1.5M, Weekend $3.3 Estimated Cume $98.5M
9. Eat Pray Love (Sony) Week 5 [2,339 Theaters]
Friday $890K, Saturday $1.2M, Weekend $3M, Estimated Cume $74.7M
10. Inception (Warner Bros) Week 9 [1,583 Theaters]
Friday $835K, Saturday $1.3M, Weekend $2.9M, Estimated Cume $282.3M
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i am very glad that the RE is doing so well.
i will definitely go and watch it because the native 3D with the action scenes looks damn cool and ofc because Wesker from the games is in it.YEAH.
Congrats to Sly! He’s about to have a movie other than Rocky and Rambo cross the 100 million mark by next week. By far the biggest comeback story of 2010.
Who woulda thunk it that Expendables would do this well and so much better than the A-team?
Depends whether you want to include Spy Kids 3 on his scorecard!
Sony certaintly is having a great year at the box office! Karate Kid, Grown Ups, Salt, The Other Guys, Dear John, Takers and Resident Evil all have overperformed or are overperforming, and even Eat Pray Love and the Bounty Hunter have respectable totals.
But what a lot of crap movies
Of course it’s doing well. It’s Real 3D. Not the post converted crap. I remember when the trailer was first released before the Summer and it was derided for saying “Using the Cameron/Pace Fusion Camera System” in the trailer. But they were smart to do so since people are wising up to good 3D and bad 3D.
Also while the film is derivative of many films before it, it plays more like an action film than horror film. That should help for the date night crowd that can be adverse to horror/zombies.
I wonder what the Cinemascore Grade was?
The only reason (and I do mean ONLY) ResEvil made any money whatsoever is because there are a LOT on angry unemployed geeks and nerds in this country who live vicariously thru Milla’s character. Some love story with zero stars and a milquetoast plot will come along next weekend and knock this waste of time off the shelf in seconds. Mark my words Nikki.
after their disastrous summer, fox is in dire need of an executive shake-up starting with the incompetent marketing folks. i mean come on, it’s 2010 and they still can’t figure out how to do anything fresh or exciting. they used to be so good at disguising their terrible movies and conning everyone. what happened?
And FOX is now saying that UNSTOPPABLE will be their first 100 million dollar domestic hit of the year? Really?
WOW!!!!
Maybe they need to review their statements about how they predicted THE A-TEAM would do well past 150 domestic and easily match DIE HARD numbers of 350 worldwide. AHEM.
167 worldwide for A-Team after 3 months and 65 countries.
It’s great news that Films actually shot in stereoscopic 3D are hitting the silver screen and successful. Get ready Hollywood – here comes the new generation of recruits with talent, passion and yes, a little twinkle in their eyes…
I guess that Machete wasn’t as sharp as people thought.
Does anyone still want to make fun of “Takers” at this point?
Im curious for the numbers for Im Still Here since its playing at only 19 screens (according to Box Office Mojo.) Analysis, Nikki?
Why is Mila not considered a movie star? Is it the franchise that’s successful?
Excellent News for RE!
Always cool to see a Female actioner do well.
If there is so much public protest against the I building in NYC , the building permit is invalidated. Pull the building permit. What are they waiting for; violence????? Pull the building permit. !!!!!!
I agree with Alboone – Sly getting another $100 million hit nearly 25 years after his last one is simply amazing. He deserves it! Hopefully this opens the door for other projects he wants to do.
Nice to see Will Ferrell bounce back from Land of the Lost with The Other Guys too. That makes 4 for 4 with Adam McKay, so they’re batting at 1.000 right now. What other actor/director duo can say that?
How is “The Other Guys” a hit? According to Box Office Mojo, the production budget was $100mm and figure at least another $10mm for marketing, so at $112mm gross (which doesn’t figure the theater’s cut) it has not broken even.
These resident evil movies are terrible
Lionsgate has done well. The Last Exorcism’s budget was less than $2 mil. The Expendables has done well worldwide. Now that they have The Hunger Games, they are going to be making money hand over fist like Summit.
Machete’s b.o. take isn’t what anyone expected? Who expected anything better?
Any of those fervent Clooney fans want to defend that 55% drop-off?
Not surprised about the drop for Machette. The trailers made it appear to be cheap and unintelligent, and that combined with the illegal-immigration-is-just-fine aspect kept me as well my friends/family away.
I am happy Machete bombed its first week and shows NO LEGS this week!
what happened to the eclipse re-release?
Stupid Stallone Movie Will Cross The $100 M Next Week! How Lame Is That? More Douchebaggery & B-List Action ‘Stars’ On The Way…
Not to mention on a budget!
With all these critics post movie opening why not start premovie preproduction and save money and time; write here, receive ideas and critics; then procede with production. Moviemaking via media.