Fantasy Moguls has their early Friday box-office report out and it looks like RopeofSilicon’s Box-Office Oracle may be one of the lone victors in properly asssessing expectation on 10,000 B.C.‘s box-office output as it looks like the pre-historic epic pulled down a measly $11.5 million on Friday and is now expected to rake in $33.14 at the box for the weekend. Our Oracle predicted $33.3 million while many hovered around $41 and $42 million. Should Warner Bros. be disappointed in the results? Well, it certainly isn’t the $70+million 300 pulled in last March for the studio and I have to assume they too expected north of $40 million at a minimum and considering the 8% rating at RottenTomatoes I don’t expect this one to do much better as the weeks go on.
Disney’s shit-looking release dubbed by Film.com as “Worse Than the Larry the Cable Guy Movie” (also known as College Road Trip) pulled down only $3.5 million on Friday.
Lionsgate’s The Bank Job was the other major new release this weekend with 1,603 theaters and it pulled in $1.6 million on Friday and is expected to manage about $4.7 million for the weekend, which is about a million less than most prognosticators had it earning.
The one title I have been keeping an eye on is Touchstone’s Step Up 2 the Streets. The first Step Up made $65+ million at the box-office and the sequel currently sits with just over $50 million. I am not sure if it has another $15 million in its tank considering this weekend will get it about another $3 million or so leaving it with yet another $12 million to make. I don’t quite get it since I thought the sequel was a vastly superior film to the first, even if they are just dancing movies. Then again, considering the budget is supposed to be something like $28 million on it (I think), Touchstone is probably quite happy with the results so far.
Below is how the rest of the Friday estimates looked. Tune back in on Sunday for a complete wrap-up.
- 10,000 B.C. (Warner Bros) – $33.14 million
- College Road Trip (Disney) – $12.5 million
- Vantage Point (Sony) – $8.1 million
- Semi Pro (New Line) – $6 million
- Spiderwick Chronicles (Paramount) – $5.06 million
- The Bank Job (Lionsgate) -$4.7 million
- Jumper (Fox) – $3.92 million
- The Other Boleyn Girl (Sony) – $3.86 million
- Step Up 2 the Streets (Disney) – $3.33 million
- Fool’s Gold (Warner Bros) – $2.89 million
