Weekend Overview
Note:Figures are estimates. They may vary slightly.
Source:
http://news.fantasymoguls.com
WEEKEND ESTIMATES: 'Hancock' Delivers $107M 5-Day Opening, Giving Will Smith a Record Eighth Consecutive $100M Grossing Movie!; 'WALL-E' with $33M 3-Day; 'Wanted' Down 60 Percent for $20.6M; 'Kit Kittredge' a Disaster!
by Steve Mason
SUNDAY 9:00 a.m. (Pacific): Will Smith's Hancock, despite negative reviews and early box-office prognosticators forecasting disaster, surged dramatically on Saturday to $26.1 million (in my Friday report, I called for $26 million), and Sony is expecting another $19.1 million today. That would give the Peter Berg-directed film an excellent $107.32 million, including Tuesday "preview" showings, for its five-day opening.
By any reasonable measure this is an outstanding start for Hancock, especially given that Smith's boozy do-gooder is a new character not based on a comic book or a toy line, like last year's Transformers. Even with a conservative 2.6 multiple (opening weekend multiplied by 2.6), the movie will reach $200 million domestic. Even though competing studios have been spinning Hancock as a disappointment, any of them would be thrilled to have a $200 million hit on their slate.
WALL-E (Disney), Pixar's latest masterpiece, scored another $33.41 million over the three-day for a new cume of $128.13 million. That gives the lonely little robot the third-best 10-day gross for a Pixar movie, trailing only Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. It is also the all-time No. 5 10-day gross for an animated movie.
Universal's Wanted was down almost 60 percent from its opening weekend, but still topped $20 million for the three-day. The Angelina Jolie/James McAvoy Matrix-style action picture has a new cume of just over $90 million and hopes for a franchise have not been dampened in the slightest.
Finally, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl only managed $3.6 million for the weekend, which is a huge disappointment for Picturehouse. After enormous per-theatre averages from its limited runs, the specialty distributor elected to expand on July 2, and the move clearly backfired in the wake of WALL-E's huge grosses.
STUDIO-REPORTED 3-DAY ESTIMATES
1. NEW Hancock (Sony) — $66 million, $15,645 PTA, $107.32 million cume
2. WALL-E (Disney) — $33.41 million, $8,370 PTA, $128.13 million cume
3. Wanted (Universal) — $20.6 million, $6,470 PTA, $90.77 million cume
4. Get Smart (Warner Bros.) — $11.12 million, $3,112 PTA, $98.11 million cume
5. Kung Fu Panda (DreamWorks/Paramount) — $7.5 million, $2,224 PTA, $193.39 million cume
6. The Incredible Hulk (Universal) — $4.97 million, $1,634 PTA, $124.91 million cume
7. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Paramount) — $3.94 million, $1,797 PTA, $306.59 million cume
8. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (Picturehouse) — $3.6 million, $1,953 PTA, $6.12 million cume
9. Sex and the City (Warner Bros.) — $2.34 million, $1,835 PTA, $144.86 million cume
10. You Don't Miss With The Zohan (Sony) - $2 million, $1,155 PTA, $94.78 million cume
11. The Love Guru (Paramount) — $1.7 million, $641 PTA, $29.33 million cume
12. Iron Man (Paramount) — $1.5 million, $1,472 PTA, $311.75 million cume
ALL-TIME BEST 4TH OF JULY PERFORMANCES
1. Transformers — $29.07 million
2. Spider-Man 2 — $21.95 million
3. Hancock — $18 million (Estimated)
4. Independence Day — $17.34 million
5. Men in Black II — $16.49 million
6. Men in Black — $15.72 million
7. Terminator 3 — $13.03 million
8. War of the Worlds — $12.18 million
9. Superman Returns — $10.51 million
10. The Perfect Storm — $9.02 million
MOST $100 MILLION HITS IN A CAREER
1. Tom Hanks — 15
2. Tom Cruise — 14
3. Eddie Murphy — 13
4. Will Smith — 12 (including Hancock)
4. Harrison Ford — 12
6. Jim Carrey — 11
6. Robin Williams — 11
8. Mel Gibson — 10
8. Julia Roberts — 10
10. Matt Damon — 9
10. Cameron Diaz — 9
12. Bruce Willis — 8
12. Jack Nicholson — 8
ALL-TIME TOP 10-DAY GROSSES FOR ANIMATED FILMS
1. Shrek the Third — $185.17 million
2. Shrek 2 — $184.89 million
3. Finding Nemo — $144.04 million
4. The Incredibles — $143.32 million
5. WALL-E — $133.1 million (Estimated)
6. The Simpsons Movie — $128.06 million
7. Monsters, Inc. — $122.15 million
8. Kung Fu Panda — $117.28 million
9. Cars — $117.05 million
10. Ice Age: The Meltdown — $115.75 million