It was an auspicious start for the Metal Marvel Hero, as Iron Man grossed an estimated $5.5 million at around 2,500 theaters during its Thursday night previews and made an estimated $32.5 million at 4,105 theaters on Friday, making it the 14th highest-grossing opening day on record. (You can read the ComicMix reviews of the…
Hooray, hooray, the first of May; outdoor– er, Iron Man begins today! Paramount is planning to open Iron Man at 8:00 PM on Thursday, May 1, instead of one minute past midnight on May 2nd as originally planned. The studio is apparently hoping that great word-of-mouth will help boost box-office business for the weekend. Early…
In a bit of chilling news for Marvel Entertainment stockholders, industry analyst Mike Hickey of Janco Parters offered up the following assessment this week regarding the impact of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV videogame release on ticket sales for the Iron Man feature film: We anticipate the video game release of GTA IV on April…
Nikki Finke points to Keith Boesky‘s comparison by the numbers of the release of Halo 3 (the video game) to Spider-Man 3 (the movie). Pretty impressive at first glance… Even though the media trumpeted how the launch of Halo 3 was the largest single day financial event in entertainment history, the articles fail to address…
A videogame has set the all-time record for most revenue earned in a single day by any entertainment property. Any property. Ever. That game, for anyone hiding under a rock, is Halo 3 by Bungie, a subsidiary of Microsoft. Who knew there were so many Xboxes out there? CNet notes that the game "netted $170…
Box Office Mojo’s weekend movie estimates show that Transformers made a whopping $67.6 million, including $22 million on Friday alone. The total gross so far is $152.5 million since Wednesday. Per theater grosses were $16,853, more than double what the next ranked film, Ratatouille, took in. The Pixar rat did okay, though, with a weekend…
Don’t people have day-jobs? Accordiing to Variety, Transformers made $8.8 million on Monday, playing on 3,050 screens around the country. Today, it adds another 500 screens, and will probably make even more money. The studios behind the movie (Paramount and DreamWorks) hope to earn more than $100 million by Monday, in what they describe as…
Box Office Mojo reports that Ratatouille is the top-grossing film this weekend, as expected, with grosses of more than $47 million. This beats Live Free or Die Hard, which earned a tad over $33 million. "But wait," you say. "Die Hard 4 opened on Wednesday. Didn’t the real fans go then, driving up the gross?"…
According to Variety estimates, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End was the top-grossing film this weekend, earning $43,188,000 over Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The hilarious Knocked Up was second with $29,284,20, while Shrek the Third earned $26,704,000. Newbie Mr. Brooks earned just over $10 million, while Spider-Man 3 took in $7.5 million. Variety also…
I held off on the breathless reporting on Pirates breaking all the records claimed in many weekend stories because I heard the numbers might be a bit suspicious, and it seems I had good reason to wonder. Nikki Finke has all the details: First, I received a statement from Sony Pictures Entertainment, and then later…
Even though most movie theaters haven’t opened yet, nor sold Sunday tickets, Variety is already reporting that Shrek the Third will rule the charts this weekend. They do this because Friday ticket sales were $38.8 million, in 4,122 theaters. That comes out to a per venue average of $9,423 — just for Friday. Spider-Man 3,…
Spider-Man 3 still rules the box office charts, pulling in $60 million dollars in its second weekend, far outdistancing all comers. Whereas it suffered a 60% drop from its opening weekend, Media By Numbers president Paul Dergarabedian noted "To me this is an appropriate second-weekend drop. Any studio would be happy to have a movie…
