Elysium Box Office Prediction

For many movie lovers, August 9th has been an eagerly awaited date on the summer calendar as Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium opens up. The director made a splash in the summer of 2009 when District 9 opened to rave reviews and robust box office (it got a Best Picture nomination too).

Elysium is a futuristic sci-fi thriller starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. So far, its reviews have been mixed and it certainly isn’t receiving the love from critics that District 9 did.

As I see it, the $90 million budgeted pic is a bit of a question mark. Audiences have certainly had no shortage of sci-fi action flicks to watch this season. Will Elysium break out of the pack the way World War Z did with a $200 million gross? My thinking is it will not.

A more likely scenario is that Elysium performs similar to Pacific Rim, another hotly anticipated fanboy pic. That film opened to $37.2 million in July and I see Elysium doing around that number. I’ll say it does slightly less but in the ballpark.

Elysium opening weekend prediction: $33.7 million

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https://toddmthatcher.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/percy-jackson-sea-of-monsters-box-office-prediction/

For my prediction on We’re the Millers, click here:

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For my prediction on Planes, click here:

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