There’s certainly zero mystery as to what will be #1 this weekend as Thor: The Dark World blasts into theaters and should have one of the biggest openings of the year. You can read my detailed post outlining my prediction on it here:
https://toddmthatcher.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/thor-the-dark-world-box-office-prediction/
The weekend’s other newcomer is About Time, a British romantic comedy with Rachel McAdams that could muster up some decent counter programming business. It could also totally tank. I’m not too sure about that one, but my prediction post for it is here:
https://toddmthatcher.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/about-time-box-office-prediction/
Ender’s Game will fall to second place and should lose about half its audience in weekend #2 after a just OK $27 million opening. After that, numbers 3-6 should involve a combination of the following: Last Vegas and Free Birds in their sophomore weekends, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa in its third, and the debut of About Time. The order of how they place is very much up in the air and should be close.
And with that – I’ll make it top six (instead of the usual five) predictions for next weekend:
1. Thor: The Dark World
Predicted Gross: $85.6 million
2. Ender’s Game
Predicted Gross: $13.6 million (representing a drop of 49%)
3. About Time
Predicted Gross: $12.8 million
4. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
Predicted Gross: $11.2 million (representing a drop of 44%)
5. Last Vegas
Predicted Gross: $11 million (representing a drop of 32%)
6. Free Birds
Predicted Gross: $10.4 million (representing a drop of 34%)
There you have it! As always, I’ll have an update on the blog’s Facebook page Saturday with final results Sunday!
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