SPEARE'S TIPS - The Films of 5/16, 5/17/13

[W]

As of now I'm happy I went with Man of Steel.

[Geezer]

Yeah those are awful numbers for Star Trek. I stayed far away, not because I thought it would do poorly, just because I thought it wasn't worth its price with the competition next weekend. It will probably only get 7 top 5 points.

[Chienfantome]

Surprisingly low figures indeed. I hope people don't prefer to keep their money for F&F6 !

[JohnErle]

Surprisingly low figures indeed. I hope people don't prefer to keep their money for F&F6 !

That may be exactly what happened since ERC is reporting that the OW audience was 64% male and 73% 25+.

Box Office Mojo is running late but ERC is saying 70.5 million for the 3-day weekend, $85 overall.

[Shrykespeare]

Weekend Estimates:

Top 10:
5 points - Star Trek Into Darkness, $70.6M ($84.1M 4.5-day)
4 points - Iron Man 3, $35.2M
3 points - The Great Gatsby, $23.4M
2 points - Pain and Gain, $3.1M
1 point - The Croods (!), $2.75M
42, $2.73M
Oblivion, $2.2M
Mud, $2.2M
Peeples, $2.1M
The Big Wedding, $1.1M

PTA (all leagues):
5 points - Frances Ha
4 points - Star Trek Into Darkness
3 points - Iron Man 3
2 points - The Great Gatsby
1 point - Love is All You Need

No word on Pieta yet.

[Chienfantome]

I hope Pieta can sneak in there and grab those 4 PTA points. There's room for it.

[bestfilm]

No word on Pieta yet.

BO.com reports it at $6.228 on 12 screens, with a meager average of just $519 per screen. I hope it's wrong, because if it's so it would be a huge disappointment.

[Chienfantome]

Whaaaaat !!?? I do hope it's not accurate !!!

[empire13]

Boxoffice.com has the same numbers for Pieta. Very poor reception.

[W]

Damned Americans! I had Pieta on a ton of slates.

[Geezer]

Crazy big number on Francis Ha. I left it off most of my slates because I was afraid it would max out around 6 PTA, but it could definitely do more with that great start.

[silversurfer19]

Awesome. Good weekend after missing out on Gatsby last weekend. Had Frances Ha on most Ultimate Slates and only had Star Trek on a couple of BO ones.

[Shrykespeare]

Looks like it's almost official... Pieta scores a PTA of less than $1000. Fuck.

[Shrykespeare]

For whatever reason, BOM still hasn't finalized their numbers, so I went to the-numbers.com to get the weekend actuals.

Top 10:
5 points - Star Trek Into Darkness, $70.2M ($83.7M 4-day)
4 points - Iron Man 3, $35.8M
3 points - The Great Gatsby, $23.4M
2 points - Pain and Gain, $3.2M
1 point - The Croods, $3.0M
42, $2.8M
Oblivion, $2.3M
Mud, $2.2M
Peeples, 42.2M
The Big Wedding, $1.2M

PTA (all leagues):
5 points - Frances Ha, $34,350
4 points - Star Trek Into Darkness, $18,140
3 points - Iron Man 3, $8,442
2 points - The Great Gatsby, $6,743
1 point - Love is All You Need, $3,132

[Chienfantome]

Awful, awful, awful news about Pieta. What happened to US cinephiles ? The first Korean film ever to win the Golden Lion at Venice, the return of Kim Ki-Duk, and no one shows up ??!! Come on !