SATURDAY 5 AM, 4TH UPDATE: Website problems prevented me from posting yesterday. Unreal how other media outlets were so wrong about the domestic grosses and box office order all day. (Talk about untrustworthy…) The weekend is looking like $150M which is +12% from last year. Here’s the Top Ten based on Friday estimates. Fuller analysis and refined numbers coming:
1. Elysium (QED/TriStar/Sony) NEW [Runs 3,284] R
Friday $11.0M, Weekend $30.0M
2. We’re The Millers (New Line/Warner Bros) Week 1 [Runs 3,260] R
Friday $8.5M, Weekend $25.0M, Cume $36.5M
3. Planes (Disney) NEW [Runs 3,709] PG
Friday $8.0M, Weekend $22.0M
4. Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters (Fox) Week 1 [Runs 3,031] PG
Friday $4.5M, Weekend $15.0M, Cume $24.0M
5. 2 Guns (Emmet-Furla/Universal) Week 2 [Runs 3,028] R
Friday $3.7M (-64%), Weekend $11.7M, Cume $49.1M
6. The Smurfs 2 (Sony Animation) Week 2 [Runs 3,867] PG
Friday $3.3M (-40%), Weekend $11.0M, Cume $48.2M
7. The Wolverine (Twentieth Century Fox) Week 3 [Runs 2,867] PG13
Friday $2.2M, Weekend $7.5M, Cume $111.5M
8. Despicable Me 2 (Illumination/Universal) Week 6 [Runs 2,395] PG
Friday $2.1M, Weekend $7.0M, Cume $339.5M
9. The Conjuring (New Line/Warner Bros) Week 4 [Runs 2,650] R
Friday $2.1M, Weekend $6.3M, Cume $120.3M
10. Grown Ups 2 (Columbia/Sony) Week 5 [Runs 2,102] PG13
Friday $1.4M, Weekend $4.5M, Cume $124.6M