Sunday
06Jul2008
Box Office - 'Hancock' Finishes Strong
Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 10:42AM
I stand corrected, not that I understand it. When we last
updated the box office saga of
Hancock, we stated that $100 million by Monday
was highly unlikely. After all, its Friday audience - after giving crowds three
days to see it - was a meager $19 million, only 9% higher than your average old
Thursday. That's not good for a Will Smith
movie.
Box Office Mojo reports that Hancock's audience
jumped up a whopping 40% from Friday to Saturday, giving the movie a huge push
to a $107 million week. Of movies with Wednesday openings that made more in
their first six days, only The Passion of the Christ took in 40% more on
Saturday than Friday, and that had God on its side. So, you can see, it's kind of hard to predict something
like that happening. We may have been wrong Saturday, but we were pretty much
dead on about the total number when we took
our first crack at it; we said then that Will
Smith would bring home $108 million so we weren't far off in our original
projection. Still can't get over that 40% increase from Friday to Saturday...
In other news we overvalued every other property on the
board this week by a few million bucks, with
Wall-E,
Wanted, and
Get Smart
coming in a little below our original picks.
Oh, and here's a tragedy: Do you know what the most
profitable movie of the summer is so far?
What Happens in Vegas, which has
amassed nearly seven times its budget, earning $200 million here and abroad.
That's sick.
The Top Five:
1 - Hancock ($66 million/$107 million)
2 - Wall-E ($33 million)
3 - Wanted ($20 million)
4 - Get Smart ($11 million)
5 -
Kung Fu Panda ($7.5 million)
Colin Boyd | Permalink | in Box Office, Get Smart, Hancock, Summer Movies, Wall-E, Wanted, Will Smith | Print Article | Email Article | 1 Comment | Share Article
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Really what happens in Vegas, I almost hope the had Large Hadron Collider does wipe out the planet, we apparently deserve it.