The four-day Memorial Day weekend is underway at the box office with ‘Tomorrowland’ off to a good start in matinees for Disney, having bowed in 3,972 theatres.
Meanwhile, Poltergeist, even though it’s a PG-13 movie, will see most of its horror audience come out in force tonight, but pretty good (as Midwesterners say) so far.
The film was co-financed by MGM and Fox 2000 and is being distributed by Fox. Will be interesting to see what kind of Cinema Score these films will get tonight as I figure ‘Tomorrowland’ will do well and most horror films usually fall in the C+ range
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Right now, grosses are shaping up to be a $10M-$12.3M Friday for Tomorrowland (which would include that $725K from last night) on the way to a $38M-$40M+ three-day weekend (it’s so darn early that it’s hard to report with accuracy) and $45M-$50M for the four-day day. It currently accounts for almost 40% of Fandando’s weekend ticket sales.
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Last weekend’s opener Pitch Perfect 2 is holding well so far for Universal, and we expect it in at No. 2 slot as of now. So maybe it will gross about $10M today for a three-day of anywhere between $31M-$33M and about $42M for the four-day.
Midweek, PP2 and last weekend’s other opener, Warner Bros’ Mad Max: Fury Road, changed No. 1 positions, but it was PP2 that ended up coming out on top for the week.