Jobs Box Office Prediction

A biopic of one of the world’s most visionary figures headlined by… Ashton Kutcher? Shall we call it Dude, Where’s My iPhone? (I’m sorry).

The “Punk’d” star himself plays late Apple founder Steve Jobs in Jobs and the majority of the publicity surrounding the project has mostly focused on Ashton’s casting. While everyone knows the name Steve Jobs and most use products he’s created, I don’t believe that’ll necessarily translate into box office dollars.

Truthfully, Jobs seems like it’d be more suited as a cable TV premiere than a theatrical release. Reviews have been mixed at best and the marketing campaign has been fairly quiet. There’s two other pics opening this weekend going for an adult audiences (Lee Daniels’ The Butler and Paranoia) and Jobs is likely to get lost in the shuffle.

With four new titles opening this weekend, I’ll predict most moviegoers will be using their Apple products to book tickets to those other films and not the bio about Apple’s founder.

Jobs opening weekend prediction: $6.8 million

For my prediction on Lee Daniels’ The Butler, click here:

https://toddmthatcher.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/lee-daniels-the-butler-box-office-prediction/

For my Kick-Ass 2 prediction, click here:

https://toddmthatcher.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/kick-ass-2-box-office-prediction/

For my prediction on Paranoia, click here:

https://toddmthatcher.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/paranoia-box-office-prediction/