Saturday
26Jul2008
Box Office - 'Dark Knight' On Top on Friday, 'Step Brothers' Surging
Saturday, July 26, 2008 at 10:55AM
While I wouldn't go so far as to say
The Dark Knight's bubble has burst, I must
admit that when I went by my local megaplex last night at 7:30, I just walked up
to the ticket window with no line whatsoever. And the film's Friday night box
office, while still incredibly impressive, may signal the coming of The Dark
Knight's last big payday. 
Colin Boyd | Permalink | in Batman, Box Office, Dark Knight, Hancock, Mamma Mia, Step Brothers, X-Files | Print Article | Email Article | 9 Comments | Share Article
Reader Comments (9)
what is it colin is the dark knight a dissapointment for you
Okay, this just kind of proves you don't get how box office grosses work. Why are you predicting $65 million now when everyone else is predicting $76? Friday are usually the weakest grossing day of the weekend wtih Saturday being ebst and Sunday second. If it finishes higher than your $65 million prediction it will proove you don't know what you're doing and you should shut this site down.
As the king of an amoral universe, as a purveyor of unrestricted evil for fun, Ledger’s dastardly villain, attired as sort of a rotting Clarabell, has chosen his own damnation. He’s jumped into an abyss he has dug himself, and he wants to pull us along.
I m watched The Dark Knight Movies Here
http://www.80millionmoviesfree.com
Mark -
You're absolutely wrong. Sunday is by far the weakest day of the weekend. How do I know? Because of the top 20 earners in 2008, only one of them made more money on Sunday than on Friday: Kung Fu Panda. One out of twenty. Your theory is 5% accurate, 95% utter horseshit.
Yes, Saturday is traditionally the strongest (and for the record, if you'd bothered to read the post instead of getting offended that I said something less than glowingly positive about The Dark Knight), you'd notice I did predict that it would make $75 million on Thursday.
Where you got the idea that Sunday is the second biggest day, I have no idea. And this summer, most of the big movies have opened with larger Fridays than Saturdays, making the prediction game a little harder to play.
By the way, when others like FirstShowing.net and Slashfilm were saying The Dark Knight could debut with $200 million - should they shut their sites down, too? - I said the ceiling was $155 million. That was within 2% of its gross. If you look at this summer, I'm the only one I know of who said Wanted would be within $15 million of Wall-E, and I know I'm the only one who does this sort of thing who dared say Sex and the City would topple Indiana Jones.
The only things proven by this little exchange are that you can't spell "prove," and that when people come off like arrogant know-it-alls without doing a single sliver of research, I love taking them down.
Friday 23200000
Saturday 28100000
Sunday 24330000
I believe that places the order from highest to lowest as Saturday, Sunday, Friday. Yeah, I believe it does. Why, that's exactly what I said would happen, wasn't it? Well, that's a big oops for you, isn't it? I'll be anxiously waiting to hear you're shutting this farce of a site down.
You said, "Friday are usually the weakest grossing day of the weekend wtih Saturday being ebst (sic) and Sunday second." I thought you meant opening weekends. So maybe I misunderstood your poorly spelled argument.
However, even if you look at second weekends - take this one, for example - only three of the seven non-new releases in the top ten fit your model. You're still wrong.
Looking at the entire top twelve, new releases and movies already in theaters, there are still only five movies (less than half) that support your argument.
Any way you look at it, your premise is still shaky. And since you're so high on shutting down websites that don't guess correctly, ESPN should be closed immediately for saying the Patriots would win the Super Bowl last year.
Oh, and last weekend, your theory held up in four of the top 15 flicks, and two weeks ago, it was a full one-third of the movies! Nice going! You're so right!
Well, Mark is right for this weekend when it comes to Batman. Colin is right in general. On average, Sunday is the weakest at the box office. Most movies usually have the best numbers on Saturday.
I checked all this out on Boxofficemojo.com,
This movie broke the normal trend, and exceeded the 65 million you said it was on pace to hit Colin.
The petty sniping makes people not want to read messages. "Proove" was a typo, since he spelled it properly in the first line. Sounds like a video game chat room, "You are an idiot because you spelled 'the' like this, 'teh'.
Grow up!
Mark, it is extremely hard to take you seriously. Colin provides the math he uses in making predictions and explains it in a well written article. You provide very little actual "prooof" (or however you would spell that word) backing up your claims, and your writing skills seem to be at about a 9th grade level. Based on that, how could anyone take you seriously? All I'm saying is that if you are going to argue that something is wrong you should at least try to show a little intelligence. It makes what you're writing more credible. Remember, spelling, grammar and punctuation are good. Supporting evidence for your argument is good. I hope that helps.