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Box Office - 'Indiana Jones' Whips Up $126 Million in Four Days

Because it's an otherwise boring holiday weekend, the big story is the box office performance of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. We've been updating you daily on its estimated total, and while we were off-base after Thursday's $25 million opening, we corrected ourselves and the course of the film after seeing Friday's $31 million estimate.

In fact, yesterday we indicated that Indy would probably make around $34 million on Saturday, another $31 million on Sunday and $22.5 million on Monday, giving us a five-day total of $143 million.

Now the actual estimates are in from Box Office Mojo, and we were a little low, but nothing close to the discrepancies over the past few weeks. With $37 million on Saturday and $34 million on Sunday, Indiana Jones has passed the $125 million mark in four days, and while it won't break any records and will, in fact, probably fall a little short of expectations on opening weekend and possibly its entire run, we are looking at a $145 - $152 million weekend.

Indy would need a little more than $23 million on Monday to cross the sesquicentennial mark (and for the record, I spelled that right the first time...although it was a guess), which would give it a fair chance to overtake Iron Man in June to become the year's top dog at the box office. 

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Posted on Sunday, May 25, 2008 at 12:00PM by Registered CommenterColin Boyd in , , , , , , , , | CommentsPost a Comment

A Less Than Regal Opening Day for 'Prince Caspian'

For the third consecutive weekend, the box office will prove to be a tough beast to tame. While lots of analysts expected Iron Man to christen summer with a huge take, not too many guessed $100 million-plus. And while it became obvious in the days before its release that Speed Racer would struggle, even the lowest estimates were around $10 million more than the film wound up making in its debut.

And for Prince Caspian, the second film in The Chronicles of Narnia, you were likely to find projections of $80 - $95 million; in other words, it would have a strong weekend but not Iron Man strong. And everyone was wrong...again.

Caspian opened with an anemic $19 million on Friday, according to Box Office Mojo, meaning anything over $65 million is out of the question this weekend, which in turn means that the film won't be pushing $150 million by the end of next week, which should mean the film will probably fall close to a hundred million short of the domestic total of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

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Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 10:29AM by Registered CommenterColin Boyd in , , , , , | CommentsPost a Comment

Box Office - 'Iron Man' Earns $50 Million More

Adhering to conventional wisdom, Iron Man repeated as the number one film in the country this weekend, adding a cool $50 million to its stack of money, according to estimates published at Box Office Mojo. The big weekend puts Iron Man less than a week away from $200 million, and makes it the top grossing film of 2008, a title that probably won't last but another month.

What about Speed Racer? We chronicled its Friday doldrums, but the high-speed Wachowski movie rebounded nicely on Saturday and Sunday, at least by its own standard. It still didn't make anywhere near what Warner Bros. would be comfortable with, but it only lost 10% of its audience Saturday to Sunday, where most films will see at least a 20% dropoff on day three. The still-sluggish Speed Racer did manage a second place finish, overcoming What Happens in Vegas... with Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher.

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Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 11:32AM by Registered CommenterColin Boyd in , , , , | Comments4 Comments

Box Office - 'Speed Racer' Stalls

Speed Racer, which earlier in the week was reported to be projecting soft, is playing even softer. Based on Friday's estimates from Box Office Mojo, the second big summer movie won't finish in first place this weekend...or second place.

The new Wachowski Brothers adaptation of the cult cartoon classic opened the weekend in third place, nowhere near Iron Man and a full million bucks behind What Happens in Vegas. You can't predict the future based on one day, certainly (hell, even Spider-Man 3 underperformed its own projections after shattering previous records on opening day), but it does not look good for the $100 million flick. Failing to even hit $6 million in ticket sales on Friday, Speed Racer will most likely finish the weekend around $20 million.

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Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 02:45PM by Registered CommenterColin Boyd in , , , , | Comments1 Comment

Watch the First Seven Minutes of 'Speed Racer'

Perhaps you're on the fence vis a vis this whole Speed Racer business. Oh, I get it. I was a fan of the idea to remake the Japanese 'toon, but over time, my excitement was replaced with thoughts like, "The Wachoswkis are making a kid's movie?" and "Isn't there, like, a monkey to be accounted for?"

So I'm with you if you're a little hesitant. Perhaps, however, the first seven minutes of the movie might help sway you. Enjoy the crazy (and exceptionally crafted) opening of this weekend's big movie:

Look at it this way: I either saved you ten bucks or confirmed what you already wanted to know. You don't get that offer everyday.

Posted on Friday, May 9, 2008 at 09:31AM by Registered CommenterColin Boyd in , , , | CommentsPost a Comment
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