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April 13-15 Weekend Actuals
1. The Hunger Games (Lionsgate) Week 4 [3,916 Theaters] PG-13
Friday $6.4M, Saturday $9.3M, Sunday $5.4M, Weekend $21.1M (-36%), Cume $336.7M2. The Three Stooges (Fox) NEW [3,477 Theaters] PG
Friday $5.6M, Saturday $7M, Sunday $4.4M, Weekend $17.0M3. The Cabin in The Woods (Lionsgate) NEW [2,811 Theaters] R
Friday $5.6M, Saturday $5.7M, Sunday $3.5M Weekend $14.7M4. Titanic 3D (Paramount/Fox) Week 2 [2,697 Theaters] PG-13
Friday $3.3M, Saturday $5.2M, Sunday $3.4M, Weekend $11.9M (-31%), Cume $44.7M5. American Reunion (Universal) Week 2 [3,203 Theaters] R
Friday $3.4M, Saturday $4.4M, Sunday $2.6M, Weekend $10.5M (-51%), Cume $39.7M6. Wrath of The Titans 3D (Warner Bros) Week 3 [3,102 Theaters] PG13
Friday $1.9M, Saturday $3.0M,Sunday $1.9M, Weekend $6.9M (-53%), Cume $71.3M7. Mirror Mirror (Relativity) Week 3 [3,206 Theaters] PG
Friday $2.1M, Saturday $3.0M, Sunday $1.8M, Weekend $6.8M (-38%), Cume $49.3M8. 21 Jump Street (Sony) Week 5 [2,735 Theaters] R
Friday $2.0M, Saturday $2.9M, Sunday $1.6M, Weekend $6.6M (-34%), Cume $120.3M9. Lockout (FilmDistrict) NEW [2,308 Theaters] PG13
Friday $2.2M, Saturday $2.5M, Sunday $1.5M, Weekend $6.2M10. Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax 3D (Universal) Week 7 [2,112 Theaters] PG
Friday $866K, Saturday $1.3M, Sunday $865K, Weekend $3.1M, Cume $204.5M
SATURDAY PM/SUNDAY AM, 5TH UPDATE: Overall the North American weekend looks to be down around -11% from last year which may make Hollywood nervous going into the all-important summer movie season starting in May after a super-heated 2012 first quarter. The difference in this weekend’s close finishes were a matter of MPAA ratings and theater counts with 22% of K-12 out of school Friday. Lionsgate’s PG13-rated The Hunger Games scored the most locations in the U.S. and Canada this weekend and beat its domestic competition for the 4th straight weekend. As of Sunday morning, its global cume is now a gargantuan $500+ million! Fox received its hoped-for Friday (#1 after matinees) and Saturday (+24%) family fare bumps for the Farrelly Brothers’ PG-rated The Three Stooges, which played in more runs than Lionsgate’s R-rated The Cabin In The Woods. Interesting to note that both Stooges and Cabin were greenlit by then MGM production chief Mary Parent — and then taken over by other studios when MGM couldn’t handle its debt load. CinemaScores were as follows: Fox’s The Three Stooges ‘B-’ (‘A’ from audiences under 18, ‘C’ from 25 and older), Lionsgate’s The Cabin In The Woods ‘C’ (‘D+’ from females), FilmDistrict’s Lockout ‘B-’. Interesting how the Stooges reviews were better than expected, especially from top-end critics who found genius in that silliness. But not as good as Joss Whedon’s horror pic which received truly stellar reviews, including 93% positive on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Three Stooges will be Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s 3rd highest opener.
Universal’s Battleship continues to screen strongly overseas with estimates bringing the 72-hour total to $58 million now that all 26 international territories are open. Director Peter Berg’s military vs alien actioner debuted to #1 in 24 of those new territories. For months the studio has fought bad buzz about how risky this expensive pic has been. Especially when the studio is claiming it came in at $209M — and everyone else is saying $250+M. And there’s still the possibility that, in the United States at least, it could become a disappointing ”John Carter in gunmetal grey”. But the film is performing well enough to allay fears that the rah-rah-USA patriotic theme in 2D might not do well internationally in a crowded foreign marketplace (against The Hunger Games, Titanic 3D, American Pie Reunion, and The Wrath Of The Titans). Universal pursued an unorthodox, even daring, strategy to open Battleship internationally more than a month before it debuts May 18th in North America. But it may pay off. My sources project the film could steam past $300M foreign box office based on current trends. The film rolls out to another 24 territories including big guns Russia and China next weekend.
My sources estimate these early Top Ten grosses for Friday, Saturday, and the weekend in North America:
1. The Hunger Games (Lionsgate) Week 4 [3,916 Theaters] PG-13
Friday $6.5M, Saturday $9.5M, Weekend $21.7M, Cume $335.7M
2. The Three Stooges (Fox) NEW [3,477 Theaters] PG
Friday $5.6M, Saturday $6.9M, Weekend $17.1M
3. The Cabin In The Woods (Lionsgate) NEW [2,811 Theaters] R
Friday $5.5M, Saturday $5.9M, Weekend $15.1M
4. Titanic 3D (Paramount/Fox) Week 2 [2,697 Theaters] PG-13
Friday $3.3M, Saturday $5.1M, Weekend $11.4M (-34%), Cume $44.1M
5. American Reunion (Universal) Week 2 [3,203 Theaters] R
Friday $3.4M, Saturday $4.4M, Weekend $10.6M (-51%), Cume $39.8M
6. Mirror Mirror (Relativity) Week 3 [3,206 Theaters] PG
Friday $2.0M, Saturday $3.1M, Weekend $7.2M, Cume $49.6M
7. Wrath Of The Titans 3D (Warner Bros) Week 3 [3,102 Theaters] PG-13
Friday $1.9M, Saturday $3.1M, Weekend $7.0M, Cume $71.3M
8. 21 Jump Street (Sony) Week 5 [2,735 Theaters] R
Friday $2.0M, Saturday $3.0M, Weekend $6.8M, Cume $120.0M
9. Lockout (FilmDistrict) NEW [2,308 Theaters] PG-13
Friday $2.2M, Saturday $2.6M, Weekend $6.4M
10. Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax 3D (Universal) Week 7 [2,112 Theaters] PG
Friday $880K, Saturday $1.3M, Weekend $3.0M, Cume $204.7M
FRIDAY 8:15 PM, 2ND UPDATE: My sources say latest weekend estimates based on today’s trends show that Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games looks like it will hold top spot again with a weekend between $19M-$22M, followed by Fox’s The Three Stooges with $17M-$20M, and Lionsgate’s The Cabin In The Woods with $15M-$17M. More later.
FRIDAY 4:15 PM UPDATE: Strong matinees are helping Twentieth Century Fox newcomer The Three Stooges to overperform at the North American box office. It was #1 for matinees today. By 4 PM it was neck-and-neck with Joss Whedon’s extremely well-reviewed The Cabin In The Woods at $6.4M-$6.5M. But the horror genre does better on Friday nights and the PG family fare best on Saturday mats. For the weekend, there’s a good chance Stooges could take down juggernaut The Hunger Games after Lionsgate’s 3 straight weeks atop the box office in the U.S. and Canada. Right now weekend projections are: Three Stooges $21M, The Hunger Games $21M, and Cabin In The Woods $17M. Hunger Games is looking like $4.7M-$5M today. At midday my sources upped their weekend Stooges projections to “possibly a number with a ’2′ in front of it”.
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I cant wait. nuk-nuk-nuk
I can and will.
i hope this holds up. all the snarky reactions online (as usual) are totally uncalled for considering no one saw it and the farrellys were trying to just make people laugh and have a good time and have people remember how good the stooges were. i was really happy to see the good reviews it got and if it comes close to 20 million this weekend that really would be huge.
the internet is mean waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I saw the “Stooges” this weekend and can confirm it is HILARIOUS and all the stuffed shirt snarky reviews are from “imbeciles”, as Moe would say, who have not actually SEEN the movie.
The entire audience was laughing out loud and I haven’t laughed that hard in years.
The REAL imbeciles are the ones watching the “Stooges” movie thinking that it’s HILARIOUS. Yeah, right… Never mind that the movie turns Moe, Larry, and Curly from proud Jewish boys to Catholics, or that none of the actors playing them are Jewish, but to have them interacting with them pukes from JERSEY SHORE… Moe AND Curly AND Larry would be running to Fox to find their studio executives and poke ‘em in the eye, bop ‘em in the forehead, and/or punch ‘em in the belly if they could see how they’re being portrayed today… Do yourself a favor and watch the REAL Stooges (i.e. from the days BEFORE television). Promise ya, AT LEAST a million times funnier than this drivel.
One of those situations where the Tomato meter is useless. Stooges got a lot of good reviews from published critics.
We’ve underestimated the american publics love of crap
I love the Three Stooges tv show. One of my all time faves.
The movie however, looks competely stupid. I have no interest in seeing it at all.
Yes, Jack,
Because the original Stooges were “High Art” and this is just stupid. Get a clue, industry wannabe.
There’s slapstick, and then there’s stupid. If you don’t know the difference, YOU’RE the industry hack.
The Three Stooges was not a TV show. They were short subjects that ran before feature films in theatres from 1935-1957.
I thought the same thing but we saw it Sunday and it was a really good movie.The trailers do it no justise,we couldn’t stop laughing.
Now I wanna see it.
you should give it a chance! if you don,t like it ill pay your 7.00 movie ticket thru pay pal
The reviews have been love letters! Can’t wait to see it
I’m not a Stooges fan.
But I am a fan of movies that aren’t just bad movies like 30 MINUTES OR LESS, aimed at one demographic.
There is a reason romantic comedies always do well. I know three smart women, a mom and her two daughters, who went to see SOMETHING BORROWED, even though they acknowledged it was going to be awful, simply because there is nothing aimed at them. Stooges, there is something for a grandfather to take his grandson to, or for 4 guys in a retirement home to go see. One can laugh, but those four men will never, ever see a movie.
Which is why I want to see more films aimed at the older generation. More films aimed at women. More films aimed at the starving specialty audience, that aren’t over the top artsy fartsy. THE DESCENDANTS was good, but not so good that you can’t make more of those quality films. And people are starved for them.
Stop making crap like 30 MINUTES OR LESS just because it’s about two guys and they curse a lot. I like profanity, I use profanity, but not when it’s just there to be there.
Films like 30 Minutes or Less are geared for men in their 20s. Can’t they have their own films, as well as everyone else.
What a poke in the eyes to the prognosticators!
Woo-woo-woo!
Shame. I thought Friday the 13th would help Cabin in the Woods to get off to a stronger start. Guess not.
Took the kids this afternoon and they loved it. Not surprised the movie is number one in America.
You took your kids to ‘Cabin in the Woods’ and they loved it!!!! You’re a terrible parent.
1) Stooges 23m
2) Hunger Games 21m
3) Cabin 20m
1) wrong
2) inaccurate
3) are you insane?
Amen. I cannot believe people are going to see this stupidity.
I suppose you’ll be taking in the Béla Tarr retrospective instead.
You may think it’s stupid but most people really like Cabin in the Woods.
omg lets be overdramatic about people spending 90 minutes of their time watching something goofy.
Saw it today! Hysterical!!!!! Stay for the music video at the end of the end credits!
Funnier than Cabin in the Woods?
There will be a sequel — Stooges In The Woods. Shemp is the Ancient One.
I’m there. Good one, Jack.
Three Stooges
“Toldja!!!” – Harry Cohn
Cabin in the Woods was GREAT !
Good for the Farrellys. Good guys from what I hear, and they worked their asses off for over a decade to get this movie made when no one else believed in it. And from the people I know who have seen the movie, they’ve all been pleasantly surprised.
What do you mean “good for the Farrelly’s”? How is this good? This movie is going to open to less than “Project X” and wtf was that? How is this going to be spun as a hit? The Farrelly’s have not made a good or funny film in over a decade.
Thanks for taking the time to read my comment, Nikki, and even adding the 93% to your story! Love this site even more now.
Why is hack man whedon getting cred for drew goddards cabin?
Because he wrote the script?
because people know whedon’s name
You obviously haven’t seen THE AVENGERS.
Just saw it and all it contained was just 90 minutes of sight gags and a ridiculous plotline, but why the Jersey Shore cast were included in this is beyond me. Edit that out and the movie would have been funny.
I thought this version of the 3 Stooges was supposed to be different. That instead of punching people in the stomach or poking them in the eye they were supposed to shoot people.
Columbia should have made this movie they owned all rights to the Stooges for 75 years and when they had the chance to make this they failed to realize the value of the Stooges. MGM and Warners also could have made this. Good for FOX for seeing the potential in the boys.
I saw The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love on dates and wanted to kill myself half way through them like the people in the movie Airplane that didn’t want to listen to Ted Stryker anymore. As you know, they both won the Oscar for Best Picture. I saw The Three Stooges tonight. I laughed throughout the movie, as did the audience, and many of us clapped at the end. The material was funny, the actors were perfectly cast, and I simply enjoyed myself. Well worth the ticket price. That’s all I ask from a movie.
Because that’s all there is. THREE STOOGES or THE ENGLISH PATIENT. It’s one of the other, folks.
Aren’t those two widely seen as two of the worst recent BP winners in recent years?
Who are these rubes that Cinemascore polls?
Why are the Cinemascore ratings in direct inverse proportion to the Tomatometer?
totally agree. what the hell is going on that people are giving cabin a C and critics are at 93%? I am gonna guess it is all the teen idiots that expected more torture porn. You will get the ‘sophisticated” audience during the week once the kids clear out. Cabin will have legs. Plenty of room to expand with that modest theater count and solid per screen.
honestly, cabin in the woods seems like the kind of movie that critics tear apart and I’m not at all surprised at the cinemascore — some in the theater were saying, what a crap movie or I don’t know that I would say that I hated it, but can’t say that I liked it.
Personally, I don’t know what the big secret is that we are all supposed to keep since they pretty much give it away in the opening minutes. The one good thing i can say is that it has a great cast.
Not surprised about the low cinemascore for “Cabin in the Woods”.
I was worried that it be one of those movies (like Drive and Haywire)that had great reviews but it wasn’t what audiences were expectiong, leading to bad word of mouth that could affects its box office.
Cabin has an 81% audience approval rating on RottenTomatoes, and a 7.9 on IMDb. That’s considerably higher than either of the two other major releases this weekend.
Considerably higher than both Drive and Haywire as well.