June 8-10 Box Office Predictions

Our June 8-10, 2012 Box Office Predictions

1. Prometheus $60 million
2. Madagascar 3 $45 million
3. Snowwhite and the Huntsman $28 million
4. Men in Black III $13 million
5. Marvel's The Avengers $12 million
6. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel $2.8 million
7. What to Expect when you're expecting $2.3 million
8. Battleship $2 million
9. The Dictator $1.8 million
10. Moonrise Kingdom $1.5 million 

Box Office Estimates June 1-3, 2012

June 1-3, 2012 Box Office Estimates

***Earnings in millions

1. Snow White and the Hunts $56.2
2. Men in Black III $28.1 
3. Marvel's The Avengers $20.5
4. Battleship $5.1 
5. The Dictator $4.7
6. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel $4.5
7. What to Expect when you're Expecting $30.1 million
8. Dark Shadows $3.7 million
9. Chernobyl Diaries $3.1 million
10. The Hunger Games $1.6 million

Prometheus to be released on June 8, 2012 - The End is Near!

The End is near! Prometheus is hitting movie theaters this Friday, June 8, 2012. The anticipated Ridley Scott science-fiction adventure blockbuster event is going to make a bundle of money this weekend. No movie will block Prometheus from winning the June 8-10 weekend box office.

We anticipate box office estimates to reach $65+ million this upcoming weekend. Scott's past work follows across the genres, anywhere from Gladiator to Alien in 1979, and as far back his directorial debut in Boy and Bicycle in 1965. The visionary director has carved out several movie masterpieces such as:

• Alien (1979) 
• Blade Runner (1982)
• Thelma & Louise (1991)
• Hannibal (2001)
• Black Hawk Down (2001)
• American Gangster (2007)

Ridley Scott recently held a screening to unveil his Prometheus trailer teaser in Downtown Disney's AMC located in Anaheim, California. Screening attendants were treated to a question/answer session with Ridley Scott present. We expect Prometheus to finish first this weekend with at least $60 million in ticket sales.  

Prometheus movie tagline: "The search for our beginning could lead to our end"

Expected box office projections: $60-65 million opening weekend, long-term projection of $210+ million.  

April 27-29 2012 Box Office Estimates

April 27-29, 2012 Box Office Estimates

1. Think Like a Man $18 million
2. The Pirates! Band of Misfits $11.4 million
3. The Lucky One (2012) $11.3 million
4. The Hunger Games $11.3 million
5. The Five-Year Engagement $11.2 million 
6. Safe (2012) $7.7 million 
7. The Raven $7.3 million 
8. Chimpanzee $5.5 million
9. The Three Stooges $5.4 million 
10. The Cabin in the Woods $4.5 million 

The Hunger Games keeps the games going strong with a second top finish at the movie box office

The Hunger Games drop almost 60% from the previous week. Thus far, The Hunger Games has earned nearly $252 million in box office receipts since opening less than 10 days ago. We doubt The Hunger Games will surpass The Dark Knight, Titanic and or Avatar. However, the futuristic movie captured a huge fan following leading up to the movie premiere. In the second week in release, The Hunger Games crushed the competition, making $62 million in ticket sales.

The Wrath of Titans, a sequel to Sam Worthington's Clash of the Titans movie, finished second with $33 million in ticket sales. In any other weekend, The Wrath of the Titans would have finished number #1 with better ticket sales. The opening weekend for Julia Roberts' Snow White movie, Mirror Mirror, delivered a third place finish good enough to make an estimated $21 million in receipts.

21 Jump Street continues to entertain movie fans and 21 Jump Street television fans. The action comedy finished in fourth place with $14.3 million in ticket sales. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax finished in fifth place to collect $7.8 million in ticket sales, accumulating an estimated $189 million on total receipts to date. We expect The Lotax to cross the $200 million market next Sunday or Monday.

Box office flop John Carter is an utter disappointment, earning only $1.9 million to finish sixth after its fourth week in release. As predicted early on, the Disney movie is easily on pace to become the next Waterworld movie. The $300 million production budget as well as additional expenses tied into marketing and distribution will make the overrated science fiction action adventure movie the worst mistake ever when the cost to earnings ratio are calculated.

Act of Valor earned another $1 million to score a seventh place finish at the box office. Another box office dud A Thousand Words earned less than $1 million to deliver an eighth place finish. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen finished ahead of the two movies above with an estimated $1.3 million in ticket sales; however, the movie is still in limited release. October Baby is yet another movie that collected ticket sales that ranks it in the top 10, though the limited release under 1,000 screens push it outside of the top performers.

Next box office weekend, Titanic 3D and American Reunion will battle The Hunger Games to finish first at the box office. Visit next week to read the box office estimates. Thanks for visiting. Have a great week!

Loyalty proves to be the difference at the Box Office: The Vow edges Safe House with a brisk $41.7 million in Box Office Ticket Sales

The Vow begins strong on Friday night, and then finishes with loyalty to keep atop the box office with $41.7 million in box office ticket sales. We expect The Vow will enjoy high box office ticket sales this Valentine's Day with couples being drawn to a romantic Valentine's Day movie. The highly productive movie box office opened with several new movies, delivering higher than expected ticket sales. Overall, the box office is performing briskly in 2012.

The rundown of the box office weekend continues below.

The Vow movie stars Abercrombie & Fitch former model from back in the days. Channing Tatum is on the cusp of reinventing his Hollywood movie career with The Vow and upcoming 21 Jump Street. The ladies are responding again to the Tatum abs that made Abercrombie & Fitch ads popular among the female population. Rachel McAdams is always high on our list as a natural beauty with a sweet smile. 

In The Vow, Rachel plays a character that loses her memory after a horrific car accident. Channing Tatum plays her husband, a man who must fight to save a forgotten marriage due to memory loss. The romantic drama proves to be decisive in scoring what women want in movies with a super $41.7 million in box office ticket sales to lead the box office pack to a mind boggling weekend performance.      

Safe House kept pace with The Vow all the way to the end, giving Denzel Washington another major box office weekend to feast on in his lucrative movie career. Box office estimates for the Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds land the CIA-inspired movie tandem in second place with a $39.3 million in box office receipts. We can count on Denzel to give us another memorable performance.

In a solid third place, Dwayne Johnson leads the Journey 2: The Mysterious Island to $27.6 million in box office ticket sales. We can accept Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as a major bankable movie star with charisma. Past movies such as The Rundown and The Game Plan are a few of our favorite movies.  

The rendition of Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace in 3D opens up in fourth place with $23 million in box office ticket sales, boosting the total ticket sales from the 90s blockbuster. George Lucas is obviously happy with yet another Star Wars movie keeping the dream alive from as far back as the 70s.

Last week's box office champion, Chronicle, responded with $12.3 million in box office receipts to position the metaphysical movie in fifth place. Teenage flicks with superpowers are always popular among young moviegoers. Chronicle resembles last year's hit I Am Number Four movie.

The second weekend in release, the ghost/metaphysical movie The Woman in Black, finishes in sixth place with $10 million in box office ticket sales. Daniel Radcliffe proves once again that he is capable of making movies beyond his Harry Potter stardom.

Liam Neeson stays strong in his The Grey movie, scoring $5.1 million in box office ticket sales, good for a seventh place finish in the box office. In total ticket sales, The Grey is currently up to $42.8 million in 3 weeks in release.

Big Miracle finishes in eighth place with $3.9 million in box office estimates. The Descendants keep going strong after 13 weeks in the top 10 box office with $3.5 million in box office ticket sales to score a ninth place finish among a highly studded cast of opening movies.

The super stunning beauty, Kate Beckinsale, with her amazing glove outfit wrapping around that sweet body of hers paces the competition in Underworld: Awakening, a vampire/werewolf movie that delivers $2.5 million to carve out the top 10 movies.

Box Office Estimates is excited about reviewing a box office weekend that collected $168.9 million between the top 10 box office finishes. Visit next week to read the box office estimates. This is the perfect timing for couples to enjoy The Vow on Valentine's Day Tuesday. Happy Valentine's Day to the couples. See you all next weekend.