Saturday
13Dec
Box Office - 'Earth Stood Still' Opens with $12 Million
Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 1:25PM
It clearly won't do the business everyone over at Fox
hoped it would, but
The Day the Earth Stood Still opened with just
under $12 million on Friday, easily enough to win its opening day, according to
Box Office
Mojo. We set a bar in the mid-40s for it on Thursday, and while it's
possible the sci-fi remake could get to $40 million, the odds are definitely
against it. 
I felt it would open quickly and decline early, but I overestimated its value on Friday by about $4 or $5 million. I had a pair of 17s followed by a 12 to add up to $46 million; if it follows the percentages based on the Friday total, it will get to about $32 million.
The rest of the box office is not too bountiful. Four Christmases, Twilight, Bolt, and Australia round out the top five with collective earnings under $10 million.
We'll have a full wrap-up tomorrow, and we'll take a gander at some of the nominated movies to see how they're shaping up in limited runs.
Reader Comments (1)
I had a feeling "Day" would not be as huge a hit as everyone thought it would be. I feel like this happens every year around this time; there's usually an underperformer ("Golden Compass" last year, I guess "Eragon" the year before)