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June 29-July 1 Weekend Actuals
1. Ted (Universal) NEW [3,239 Theaters] R
Friday $20.6M, Saturday $17.9M, Sunday $16.0M, Weekend $54.4M2. Magic Mike (Warner Bros) NEW [2,930 Theaters] R
Friday $19.4M, Saturday $11.4M, Sunday $8.4M, Weekend $39.1M3. Brave 3D (Pixar/Disney) Week 2 [4,164 Theaters] PG
Friday $10.4M, Saturday $13.3M, Sunday $10.4M, Weekend $34.1M (-49%), Cume $131.8M4. Madea’s Witness Protection (Tyler Perry/Lionsgate) NEW [2,161 Theaters] PG13
Friday $10.1M, Saturday $9.4M, Sunday $5.9M, Weekend $25.4M5. Madagascar 3 3D (DWA/Par) Week 4 [3,715 Theaters] PG
Friday $3.6M, Saturday $4.7M, Sunday $3.6M, Weekend $11.8M (-40%), Cume $180.0M6. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 3D (Fox) Week 2 [3,109 Theaters] R
Friday $1.9M, Saturday $2.3M, Sunday $1.8M, Weekend $6.0M (-63%), Cume $29.0M7. Moonrise Kingdom (Focus) Week 6 [854 Theaters] PG13
Friday $1.4M, Saturday $2.0M, Sunday $1.5M, Weekend $4.9M (+45%), Cume $18.5M8. Prometheus 3D (Fox) Week 4 [1,951 Theater] R
Friday $1.4M, Saturday $2.0M, Sunday $1.6M, Weekend $4.9M (-50%), Cume $118.3M9. Snow White & The Huntsman (Universal) Week 5 [2,337 Theaters] PG13
Friday $1.3M, Saturday $1.8M, Sunday $1.4M, Weekend $4.5M (-44%), Cume $145.7M10. Marvel’s The Avengers (Marvel/Disney) Week 9 [1,757 Theaters] PG13
Friday $1.3M, Saturday $1.8M, Sunday $1.3M, Weekend $4.4M (-38%), Cume $606.5M11. People Like Us (DreamWorks/Disney) NEW [2,055 Theaters] PG13
Friday $1.5M, Saturday $1.7M, Sunday $1.1M, Weekend $4.2M
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‘Ted’ Opens ‘Off The Charts’ In Australia
SATURDAY PM, 7TH UPDATE: Rentrak tonight was having trouble obtaining 
AMC’s grosses so numbers were delayed. But my sources say the top new movies took a nosedive Saturday compared to Friday’s fireworks at the domestic box office. As for the new films, Universal’s Ted dropped -15% from Friday to Saturday but will still clear $52M, Warner Bros’ Magic Mike was down -45% and won’t climb to $40M, and Lionsgate’s Madea’s Witness Protection fell -7% and can’t get to $30M. Only DreamWorks’ People Like Us went up +18% – but it was still stillborn. Overall moviegoing this weekend was strong enough to score a big $205M which managed to stay +5% ahead of last year. Here are updated numbers for the Top Ten based on weekend estimates. More analysis coming:
1. Ted (Universal) NEW [3,239 Theaters] R
Friday $20.5M, Saturday $18.0M, Weekend $52.5M
2. Magic Mike (Warner Bros) NEW [2,930 Theaters] R
Friday $18.0M, Saturday $10.7M, Weekend $38.0M
3. Brave 3D (Pixar/Disney) Week 2 [4,164 Theaters] PG
Friday $10.5M, Saturday $13.4M, Weekend $35.5M (-47%), Cume $132.2M
4. Madea’s Witness Prot (Tyler Perry/Lionsgate) NEW [2,161 Theaters] PG13
Friday $10.2M, Saturday $9.6M, Weekend $27.0M
5. Madagascar 3 3D (DWA/Par) Week 4 [3,715 Theaters] PG
Friday $4.2M, Saturday $5.1M, Weekend $12.5M, Cume $180.7M
6. Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 3D (Fox) Week 2 [3,109 Theaters] R
Friday $1.9M, Saturday $2.5M, Weekend $6.2M (-62%), Cume $29.2M
7. Prometheus 3D (Fox) Week 4 [1,951 Theater] R
Friday $1.4M, Saturday $2.1M, Weekend $5.1M, Cume $118.4M
8. Moonrise Kingdom (Focus) Week 6 [854 Theaters] PG13
Friday $1.7M, Saturday $2.0M, Weekend $5.0M, Cume $18.5M
9. Snow White & The Huntsman (Universal) Week 5 [2,337 Theaters] PG13
Friday $1.2M, Saturday $1.9M, Weekend $4.5M, Cume $145.7M
10. People Like Us (DreamWorks/Disney) NEW [2,055 Theaters] PG13
Friday $1.5M, Saturday $1.7M, Weekend $4.2M
FRIDAY PM, 6TH UPDATE: The domestic box office is exploding with early Fourth Of July fireworks with 
total moviegoing a blazing $205M which is +15% from last year. And R-rated raunch ruled today. Universal’s Ted is wildly overperforming: $20.5M today for a $51M first weekend. The reprobate teddy bear is #1 and outgrossed Hangover today. Playing in 3,239 theaters, it could open the weekend as the biggest original R-rated comedy on record! (Remember, this is the movie that Twentieth Century Fox passed on – even though Seth MacFarlane is BMOC at 20th TV and FBC and Mark Wahlberg has a growing list of hit movies.) Audiences gave Ted an ‘A-’ CinemaScore which ensures great word of mouth. The pic debuted with a stunningly strong $2.625M from midnight showings at 1,090 theaters. Seth MacFarlane has now made the successful transition to the big screen, while Mark Wahlberg cements his status as a major star. Ted was acquired by Universal from MRC for $69M and was made for $50M.
Also overperforming is Warner Bros‘ Magic Mike (2,930 theaters) which is looking at a great $18M opening today and $43M weekend. Domestic matinees for Magic Mike were especially “crazy”, rival studios told me. This is really reminding me and Hollywood of opening day for the first Sex And The City – though hopefully not as frontloaded. (I loved Warner Bros’ marketing line to women for Channing Tatum et al that “on June 29th tell your boyfriend you’re going to the book club”). Audiences gave Magic Mike a ‘B’ CinemaScore which won’t hurt word of mouth. The male beefcake strippers movie directed by Steven Soderbergh took in a huge $2.050M from just one show at midnight in 1,100 locations. Chalk up another hit for new star Tatum but with a twist because he and Soderbergh funded the film themselves – since Magic Mike is partly based on the actor’s experiences as a Tampa stripper at age 19. And this was a low-cost acquisition of domestic rights for the studio for only a $7M investment. On Fandango and MovieTickets, the big online movie tickets sellers, Magic Mike was #1 going into today, representing 60+% of sales and outpacing Bridesmaids and Mamma Mia! at the same point in the sales cycle.
Hollywood thought Ted and Pixar/Disney’s holdover Brave (4,164 theaters) would be fighting for #1 and between $30M-$35M this weekend. But, as one rival studio exec told me, the toon took a -57% Friday-to-Friday drop “mainly because Mom said, ‘Screw you. This is my night!” Look for Brave to recover because of the Saturday kiddie matinee bump. Magic Mike and Lionsgate’s Tyler Perry film Madea’s Witness Protection (2,161 theaters) were expected to battle for 3rd and low- to mid-$20sM. But that began changing hour by hour. 
Lionsgate’s PG-13 Madea’s Witness Protection from Tyler Perry as his stereotypical cross-dressing alter ego also is doing better than expected by aiming at $30M on this crowded weekend. Major help will be the ‘A-’ CinemaScore from audiences. (Why oh why haven’t they had enough of Medea, pray tell?) Producer/director/star Perry plays 3 parts in this pic, which is 3 too many. Overlooked today is the debut of DreamWorks’ PG-13 dramedy People Like Us (2,055 theaters) which distributor Disney always knew was a small movie unlikely to gross beyond single digits. Then why in heck release it in summer when this isn’t another Hail Mary like The Help for struggling DreamWorks? But the ‘B+’ CinemaScore could generate modest word of mouth.
As for last week’s major studio releases, Fox’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is down -69% Friday-to-Friday and is over and out. And New Line/Warner Bros’ Rock Of Ages dropped -67% Friday to Friday and fell out of the Top Ten. Big flop, pending divorce: Tom Cruise is having a really bad week.
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I’ll bet after seeing the Numbers for “Ted”, Brad Grey will be banging his head against the Melrose gate of Paramount for practically giving Universal the Summer equivalent of an Xmas Present (They know why).
I just saw Magic Mike at an early matinee in the heart of flyover country. Expected to be able to walk in at the last minute and have my choice of seats, but it was not so. Crowd was mostly female, but I was far from the only guy. Several couples. Age range across the map. The movie was not quite the movie advertised, and I’m not sure if that’s good or bad for word of mouth, but it was a much better film than it had any right to be. I will probably see it again.
people like us looks B-O-R-I-N-G!
Yeah, because another lame Madea movie is a much better choice. *rolls eyes* God forbid, we have a decent movie that reflects life instead of another comic book movie, sequel or remake.
Since Seth has 3 shows on Fox Network, one assumes Fox Features had the first shot at “Ted”. With his unerring instinct for hits, Tom Rothman passed. His summer comedy is “The Watch”. How long are they going to keep him?
What a burn for Fox.
They give the guy their Sunday night, but don’t have confidence in “Ted”. Then again they did cancel “Family Guy” too, didn’t they?
There are people at Fox that don’t like Seth. Make no mistake about that.
GO TED GO!
I’m so glad that Ted is a hit right out of the gate. My whole theater was laughing with this movie tonight. I hadn’t seen a movie that people laughing this much since Superbad.
I’m glad Magic Mike is doing well too b/c even though I’m a straight guy I’m still a bit curious about it I almost snunk and sampled it while I was at the theaters this afternoon.
Madea’s movie with Denise Richardson actually looks funny this time around I might check that one out too glad to see it doing well.
I’ll leave Brave to the kids and as for Spider-Man I will not be supporting that awful reboot next week.
I’m surprised that “Ted” did well since it looked so stupid from the ads, however I’m surprised that “Family Guy” is popular since that always seemed stupid to me as well, especially compared to “South Park” which is able to at times transcend it’s puerile humor and make interesting social commentary.
I guess for certain people a talking bear/baby/dog is enough; even if said bear/baby/dog is reciting hacky, tired, predictable lines. I wish that I was as easily amused as these people!
American Dad is great. I prefer it to Family Guy. Check it out.
Woah, I would tell BILL H to get off his high horse, but it’s so damn tall that he’d probably kill himself getting off of it. Now, granted, maybe that wouldn’t be such a bad thing, but obviously there must be people who constantly tell him how perfect his taste in media is, by the way he talks.
I saw TED. I have NEVER seen a theater roaring with laughter so loudly, that we miss quite a few other jokes/lines in the process. True story. The “A-” was evident in the audience tonight.
In fact, I might have to go see it again to catch what I missed :/
Just saw TED.
There are no words to describe its hilarity.
It is the funniest movie I have ever seen.
In a theatre full of minorities everyone laughed at themselves and others.
If you want to feel happy see Ted.
Yeah Ted can brighten up a person’s day he is just that awesome and the fact that Mila Kunis and Marky Mark are in it adds to it.
I think it might just be the funniest movie I’ve ever seen I never laughed so much in a theater and actually the people in the theater were laughing at every joke like it was a television sitcom. LOL!
Magic Mike is completely NOT gay-friendly. There is no male homosexuality at all except for some passing reference. There is no male-male relationship or sexuality – nothing.
However, the director Steven Soderbergh – in what appears to be your typical liberal homophobic double standard way – includes a scene where a man and woman have had sex with a woman and enjoyed it. Imagine if it were the other way around, with a man and woman saying they enjoyed having sex with a man! Wouldn’t get past Hollywood’s selective homophobes.
Magic Mike is NOT gay-friendly in the slightest.
Yeah you’re right there were a lot of straight dudes that saw it this afternoon and they said it wasn’t gay at all and that it was one of the best movies of the year.
Bruce, why would Magic Mike be gay friendly though the movie is about STRAIGHT MALE STRIPPERS not gay or bisexual strippers. This movie was clearly marketed towards both gay men and straight women though. The Hollywood Reporter has an article about the cross marketing of Magic Mike to gay men. I heard this movie has NO MALE NUDITY so I probably won’t see it. This movie is supposed to be about male strippers yet no penis shots in the film I will pass.
Not having gay content is not the same thing as not gay friendly. Any movie that contains a fight scene with Channing Tatum and Alex Pettyfer wearing jock straps is gay-friendly enough for me.
MAGIC MIKE WAS THE BEST MOVIE EVER. Thank you Hollywood!
what i find odd is that warners and uni release two significant films with spidey opening on the 3rd of july? seems like neither studio anticipated grosses at these levels.
I have a hunch that Spidey is going to underperform.
You think so, i doubt that. I think you’re sleeping on Spidey there, you’ll start to find out by tuesday. My money is on TASM to finish 3rd at the box office this summer behind only AVENGERS & TDKR.
I dunno, I may be with Highamp on this. I am getting no excited vibe from anyone regarding Spider-Man.
Yes, I know that “excited vibe” is not the most quantifiable of measures.
“The Amazing Spider-Man” will do well, trust me on that. I bet it will one of the top 3 grossers of the summer. It’s Spidey man, people will be there to see it.
Girlfriend saw Magic Mike with a group of her friends. She said it was packed & everyone was screaming its Magic Mike time about 30 mins into it she said everyone knew this wasnt the fun stripper movie they thought it was going to be. I think word of mouth will be toxic with Magic Mike because of that but WB could careless it’s all net profit probably after Saturday’s box office.
Your girlfriend had a wildly different experience than my wife. She and her pals had a blast and came home on cloud nine.
Why is Magic Mike not in 3D? Why? This is where Hollywood makes a huge mistake.
Seriously Hollywood makes everything 3D but not this? They would have made a lot more money if MM was 3D for sure.
My wife and I are going to watch Magic Mike and Ted this weekend. It’s a fair compromise and I’m also a bit interested in seeing what the fuss over Magic Mike is.
It’s going to be a real shame when Steven Soderbergh throws in the towel in a year or so. It’ll be a real shame to not have a director who can balance more commercial work with risky, left of field work. And what about Channing Tatum? Who’d have thought that behind that dumb meat head exterior lurked a genuinely charming actor. Glad he’s finally finding roles that can demonstrate that.
TED is totally funny! Better than the Hangover films. Yes I said that
Not only I laughed my brains out….some of it was actually quite moving at times. Yes I said that
This movie has more of a plot than you think.
Seth McFarlane cranked this out of Fenway
Many many many many many comedies are better than The Hangover films. Most of them were made between the 30′s and 80′s, but still.
OK, I was thinking modern films….yep some good ones from the 30′s to the 80′s
Ted had that “Animal House” quality. Maybe without the “Germans bombing Pearl Harbor”
I watched “Magic Mike” with a bunch of my girlfriends this afternoon and had an awesome time. There were women left and right yelling and catcalling at certain scenes. It was a good film but wasn’t exactly what it was marketed to be. Finally there’s a movie out there for women.
Magic Mike was a very average movie that was skin deep at best. Soderbergh apparently has very little interest in male sexuality. There were gay coded characters that went totally underdeveloped. This movie won’t be remembered.
Magic Mike is no Showgirls…and never will be. Please tell me there is an Elizabeth Berkley cameo in this film.
I really didn’t think either of these films would be hits. Maybe GI Joe 2 knew something when it moved to next spring from this date. And I guess that’s a Tatum film as well. That Alabama boy is on a roll.
It’s great to see Ted and Magic Mike doing well at the box office and with those stuck up critics. Ted is just awesome and for a gay chick movie Magic Mike is awesome also.
I even like the fact that Madea is doing well as this movie looks hilarious.
All critics are not “stuck up” (sic). A.O. Scott of the New York Times liked FREDDIE GOT FINGERED. Elvis Mitchell likes POOTIE TANG and ranked PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN as the best film of 2003. Pauline Kael can see the beauty in the worst Brian De Palma films. The critic-as-snob meme is just a straw-man argument, a way to dismiss a reviewer’s opinion without breaking a real sweat. Of course, some critics are snobs. Snobs are everywhere. Maybe you just don’t like writers who make an effort to discuss the art of film in terms other than “awesome”…
*turns back to reading his vintage volume of André Bazin in the original French*
Well, I guess that’s it for Pixar, then. You don’t have a drop like that, if you’re not slipping.
No big worries for Pixar friend, BRAVE will finish well over 200 million domestic at the box office. I would’nt make any headstones for Pixar’s funeral yet, not by a long shot.
What if Ted was PG-13??? $85 million weekend. Bypassing the kiddos cost Seth and Mark millions. Bonehead move.
If you’re going to do a movie about a raunchy, horny stoner teddy bear, you may as well go all the way with it. A PG-13 Ted wouldn’t have worked.
It wouldn’t have been as funny if it was PG13!!! The whole point IS the R.
Maybe with a PG13 rating it wouldn’t have been so funny. What’s shown on the TV spots isn’t all in the film.
What a stupid comment. If it’s PG-13 then it’s a totally different type of film appealing to a different audience.
Most of today’s moronic loser parents take very young kids to R movies anyway.
Over twenty years ago, my “moronic loser parents” (and those of my friends) took me to see terrific R-rated films, and I’m glad they didn’t shield me from all the mature content on HBO and Showtime. Once you move beyond the novelty of F-bombs and boobies, you end up seeing a lot of fantastic movies. My parents, film-lovers who trusted their kids and weren’t moralistic fraidy cats, helped steer me into this crazy industry, and I”m grateful for it. Though I’m still pissed they wouldn’t take me to see “Conan the Barbarian” and then rubbed salt into the wound by taking my older sister to see “Porky’s.” It’s not the movies that mess you up; it’s stupid things like that.
Your folks sound like the opposite of most parents, who happily let their kids see any kind of extreme violence but would never ever let them see any kind of nudity or sexual activity in a movie.
Oh mine too…I saw History of the World Part I and Conan with my mom when I was ten. The key phrases you used are “over 20 years ago” (really about 30 now) and “terrific R-rated films”. You know as well as I do that back in the 70′s-80′s that us as children, our parents, the movies and the world in general were better, smarter, thinner, etc than the moronic drones of today.
It seems like every generation thinks that the the generation that succeeded them were moronic drones.
Ted got an “R” because of the pot smoking. Drug use in a film is an automatic “R” rating.
Pardon if I gave any of the film away
What if TED was G? $100mil !!
My local theater said Ted sold out all day, I tried to go at tonight and got sold out going in the morning. I was told to get there early
Loved Ted. Best movie I’ve seen all year. Best time I’ve had at a movie in longer than that.
Wasn’t as crazy about Magic Mike, and yes I am a woman. Not convinced by a lot of the squealing ‘gals’ posts here calling for 3-D nekked menfolk and so on. They don’t seem like any women I know and they don’t reflect the movie I saw. Forced and false to me.
What’s left for the rest of the 100 degree weekend? Anyone?
Magic Mike and Ted are EXACTLY the type of movies wholesome, conservative, family-oriented middle America has been asking for!
To those with short memories: I saw MAGIC MIKE 30 years ago when it was a (network, not cable) TV-movie titled FOR LADIES ONLY, featuring Gregory Harrison, Marc Singer and (in an appealing performance though critically reviled since she was you-know-who’s daughter) Patti Davis. In today’s New York Times, its usually acerbic critic doesn’t review MAGIC MIKE but instead writes a drooling mash note to Channing Tatum and Matthew McC.
These two incidents bring up a troubling question: Which is more appalling? The quality of the movies the mainstream Hollywood studios are excreting these days, or the caliber of the critics for the most respected publications being paid good money to review the aforementioned slop?
If this really is a remake of For Ladies Only, then I will go to see it. I kind of suspected it might be, since Channing Tatum made it as an actor, and is no longer stripping as his main occupation. For me, having a meaningful story line is the difference between not seeing it and trying to catch it before it leaves theaters.
I just read A.O. Scott’s review and found he talks more about Soderbergh than anything else, and the two paragraphs about Tatum are partly about his collaboration with Soderbergh. It’s a perfectly legitimate tack for a critic to riff on the the ineffable qualities of stardom/performance/persona, especially when you count yourself among those who are sort of fascinated by the rise of this dumb-seeming yet sensitive slab of beef called Channing Tatum.
Also, let’s not forget living sculpture Christopher Atkins in the 1983 beefcake classic A NIGHT IN HEAVEN. That’ll get a critic’s paean going.
But, seriously folks, I read
It’s a perfectly legitimate tack for a critic to focus on the performances. If A.O. Scott responds to the charms of Tatum and McConaughey and wants to riff on the the ineffable qualities of stardom/performance/persona, then so be it.
Both appalling, Scott. I have ceased to check Rotten Tomatoes reviews a while ago. I used to read them anyway only AFTER I had watched the film. I love the way they are sometimes so equivocal, e.g. ‘The movie is generic, formulaic and kitsch in a pleasant way. Crappy but fun. And the lead, though only apparently inexpressive, shows a genuine grasp of the role’. There. Red tomato. I suspect they sometimes do not even bother to watch the movie being reviewed, but rearrange the terminology used by fellow ‘critics’. Do not worry. They will write eulogistic reviews of Tatum or so-and-so until he/she stumbles. Then he/she will be dead meat. They will say that he/she was forced down our throats. By whom, I wonder? However, if the actor in question received an award or a nomination sometime in the distant past and it is obvious that he/she is simply going through the motions, ‘the director did not make proper use of the talented cast’.