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[Memles]

Friday Box Office Estimates
1 HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE $36,385,000
2 WALK THE LINE $7,555,000
3 CHICKEN LITTLE $3,480,000
4 DERAILED $2,030,000
5 JARHEAD $1,470,000
6 ZATHURA $1,425,000
7 GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' $1,320,000
8 SAW II $1,220,000
9 THE LEGEND OF ZORRO $705,000
10 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE $618,000

Past Potter Opening Days
Philosopher's Stone - $33.2 Million
Chamber - $29.6 Million
Azkaban - $38.25 Million

Update: Weekend Box Office Estimates
1 HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE $101,425,000
2 WALK THE LINE $22,400,000
3 CHICKEN LITTLE $14,769,000
4 DERAILED $6,526,000
5 ZATHURA $5,100,000
6 JARHEAD $4,790,000
7 GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' $4,375,000
8 SAW II $3,900,000
9 THE LEGEND OF ZORRO $2,300,000
10 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE $2,112,000

Past Potter Opening Weekend
Philosopher's Stone - $90.3 Million
Chamber - $88.4 Million
Azkaban - $93.6 Million

 

[Meier]

Odd, early estimates ranged from 39.2 (HSX) to 41.6 (Movie City News). I think that's actually a fairly disappointing number.. but I hope it can get to 100 million for my HSX stock.

 

[Matlock]

Odd, early estimates ranged from 39.2 (HSX) to 41.6 (Movie City News). I think that's actually a fairly disappointing number.

"Hey Bob, we're only going to make a hundred million this weekend!"
"OH GOD NO"

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

Solid is an understatement, that's like a $80-90 million opening weekend!

 

[Deku Tree]

Potter was sold out when I tried to see it last night.

 

[Memles]

Odd, early estimates ranged from 39.2 (HSX) to 41.6 (Movie City News). I think that's actually a fairly disappointing number.. but I hope it can get to 100 million for my HSX stock.

It is unlikely to make it to $100 Million for the weekend.

That being said, I doubt it will repeat Azkaban's Saturday drop. Azkaban opened huge on Friday but dropped for Saturday. Since it was June, the kids were off school and thus there was a larger matinee audience. Here, without that, the gross was still high and I would expect a higher opening overall.

 

[AlphaSnake]

If it opened on Thanksgiving weekend, it would've cracked 100M easily.

 

[Dan]

It should be noted that each new Potter film has earned less than the last during its whole run at the box office, not that they're still not profitable.

 

[Meier]

If it opened on Thanksgiving weekend, it would've cracked 100M easily.

Well, they wanted to distance themselves as much as possible from Kong and Narnia -- it should have a big second weekend (60+ million I bet).

 

[GhaleonEB]

True, but this debut is only a bit behind the first, so it reversed a trend set by the last two movies.

 

[Dan]

True, but this debut is only a bit behind the first, so it reversed a trend set by the last two movies.

Er... the list of opening day debuts at the top of the thread isn't in order of release.

 

[AlphaSnake]

Looking at this again...I think it will break 100M this weekend. 37M now. About 42-43M tomorrow. And another ~30M Sunday. It'll def. break 100M.

 

[Memles]

Looking at this again...I think it will break 100M this weekend. 37M now. About 42-43M tomorrow. And another ~30M Sunday. It'll def. break 100M.

Except that Azkaban dropped 24% on Saturday and 21% on Sunday. While I doubt it will repeat numbers like those, it will still not rise quite that much on Saturday.

 

[GhaleonEB]

Er... the list of opening day debuts at the top of the thread isn't in order of release.

:x

 

[Memles]

Weekend Box Office Estimates
1 HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE $101,425,000
2 WALK THE LINE $22,400,000
3 CHICKEN LITTLE $14,769,000
4 DERAILED $6,526,000
5 ZATHURA $5,100,000
6 JARHEAD $4,790,000
7 GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' $4,375,000
8 SAW II $3,900,000
9 THE LEGEND OF ZORRO $2,300,000
10 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE $2,112,000

Source: Box Office Mojo

 

[AlphaSnake]

woOt 101M

 

[GhaleonEB]

So - does this make it the third movie to break $100m in three days, after Spiderman and Episode III?

 

[Memles]

So - does this make it the third movie to break $100m in three days, after Spiderman and Episode III?

Shrek 2 is the fourth, but yeah, it joins that club barring a lower actual total.

 

[PhoenixDark]

:lol @ 50 Cent

 

[jamesinclair]

Yay for Harry.

And I still havent gone to see it yet. There are two Imax theaters in downtown boston and neither are playing it. WTF!

 

[Deku Tree]

Saw HP last night, it's the best potter movie yet!

Although it moved so fast that I doubt anyone who hadn't read the books would understand fully what was going on... but who is going to the movie and hasn't read the books?

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

Shrek 2 is the fourth, but yeah, it joins that club barring a lower actual total.

Technically Potter would be fifth, as The Matrix Reloaded broke the $100 milliion barrier in 3 days also.

 

[cvxfreak]

I definitely felt more hype for this movie than for the last one, so I'm not surprised to see this break $100M.

 

[DMczaf]

ZATHURA
Domestic Total as of Nov. 20, 2005: $20,283,000 (Estimate)
Production Budget: $65 million


GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN'
Domestic Total as of Nov. 20, 2005: $24,502,000 (Estimate)
Production Budget: $40 million

 

[jamesinclair]

+ Overseas: $80,000,000 44.1%
= Worldwide: $181,425,000



Oh, wow. And unlike the last Potter films, this isnt getting a simultaneous worldwide release. Most countries get it next weekend.

 

[Comfort_Eagle]

Walk the line was awesome! And those are some crazy numbers for Harry Potter. Damn.

 

[Matlock]

ZATHURA
Domestic Total as of Nov. 20, 2005: $20,283,000 (Estimate)
Production Budget: $65 million


GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN'
Domestic Total as of Nov. 20, 2005: $24,502,000 (Estimate)
Production Budget: $40 million

 

[Eric P]

Walk the line was awesome!

agree totally

soundtrack is also insanely good.

 

[teh_pwn]

Not too suprised.

I went to the 10 am viewing yesterday expecting just a few people, and 70-80% of the theater was filled.

And not many kids. The biggest demographics were 13-18 year old girls and adults.

 

[Comfort_Eagle]

agree totally

soundtrack is also insanely good.

Yeah, I need to pick that up. I was pretty amazed by what Joaquin and Witherspoon did. They sounded great.