The second weekend of 2014 brings three new wide release offerings for your consideration – the war drama Lone Survivor with Mark Wahlberg, Renny Harlin’s The Legend of Hercules, and Spike Jonze’s critically acclaimed Her with Joaquin Phoenix. You can peruse my individual prediction posts on them here:
https://toddmthatcher.com/2014/01/05/lone-survivor-box-office-prediction/
https://toddmthatcher.com/2014/01/05/the-legend-of-hercules-box-office-prediction/
https://toddmthatcher.com/2014/01/05/her-box-office-prediction/
My predictions reflect a belief that Lone Survivor should fairly easily open at #1. The Legend of Hercules could completely bomb, but I’m giving it enough credit to reach double digits at the three spot. Her likely won’t reach double digits.
Last weekend’s champ Frozen should slip to second while I am predicting holdovers The Wolf of Wall Street and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will battle Her for slots 4-6.
And with that, my predictions for the weekend box office:
1. Lone Survivor
Predicted Gross: $21.7 million
2. Frozen
Predicted Gross: $13.5 million (representing a drop of 31%)
3. The Legend of Hercules
Predicted Gross: $11.9 million
4. The Wolf of Wall Street
Predicted Gross: $8.5 million (representing a drop of 36%)
5. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Predicted Gross: $8.4 million (representing a drop of 46%)
6. Her
Predicted Gross: $8.3 million
Blogger’s note: For the past several months, I’ve been doing box office results analysis every Sunday. Starting next week, I will be combining the results from the previous weekend with this here weekly predictions post for the next weekend which comes every Monday. The main reason: I’m usually busy Sunday doing my predictions posts for the next week’s newcomers, which will continue without interruption. Secondly, the final box office numbers come in Monday so I can more accurately update how I performed. Until next time, my friends!
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