SPEARE'S TIPS - The Films of 11/22

[Shrykespeare]

Friday Estimates

Hunger Games: Catching Fire, $70.5M
Thor: The Dark World, $4.1M
Best Man Holiday, $3.8M
Delivery Man, $2.7M
Last Vegas, $1.3M
Free Birds, $1.1M
Bad Grandpa, $1.1M



Weekend Projections:

Hunger Games: Catching Fire, $152M
Thor: The Dark World, $14.5M
Best Man Holiday, $12.5M
Delivery Man, $8.2M
Free Birds, $4.9M
Last Vegas, $4.5M
Bad Grandpa, $3.5M
Gravity, $3.3M
12 Years a Slave, $2.8M
Dallas Buyers Club, $2.7M

[BanksIsDaFuture]

Delivery Man is already DOA. I suspect Vaughn's ability to headline a film are well and truly over.

Indeed it is not, Vince Vaughn.

[Shrykespeare]

That's a damn shame, because I saw Delivery Man today. It was actually very sweet and poignant without being overly saccharine. It's easily his best film in years, and his best acting job in even longer. Maybe all he needs is a new agent.

You know, I remember when his movie career first started, when he was doing films like The Cell and Jurassic Park 2. After that, it was almost exclusively comedies. The man CAN do drama. I have hope that he can turn his career around. Hell, look what Matthew McConaughey has accomplished just in the last eighteen months.

[empire13]

I've always been fond of A Cool, Dry Place. I thought it was genuinely heartwarming.

[Shrykespeare]

Weekend Estimates

Top 10:
5 points - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, $161.1M
4 points - Thor: The Dark World, $14.1M
3 points - The Best Man Holiday, $12.5M
2 points - Delivery Man, $8.2M
1 point - Free Birds, $5.3M
Last Vegas, $4.4M
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, $3.4M
Gravity, $3.3M
12 Years a Slave, $2.8M
Dallas Buyers Club, $2.8M

PTA:
5 points - Frozen ($238K!!!)
4 points - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
3 points - Philomena
2 points - Nebraska
1 point - The Book Thief

[Geezer]

Told you Frozen was going to put up an earth-shattering PTA number. It's really not fair for game purposes to use it, as 99.9% of movies don't get to use that theater, but that's the way it goes.

[Chienfantome]

Yeah that makes an impressive number in the end.

[BrocksterDuex]

Well Freebirds has went from a devasting pick in Ultimate to just below average pick. 8 top 5 now, 0 PTA, 50M, 5.1 rating.

[Shrykespeare]

Weekend Actuals

Top 10:
5 points - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, $158.1M
4 points - Thor: The Dark World, $14.2M
3 points - The Best Man Holiday, $12.5M
2 points - Delivery Man, $7.9M
1 point - Free Birds, $5.4M
Last Vegas, $4.6M
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, $3.4M
Gravity, $3.2M
12 Years a Slave, $2.8M
Dallas Buyers Club, $2.7M

PTA:
5 points - Frozen, $243,390
4 points - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, $37,971
3 points - Philomena, $32,109
2 points - Nebraska, $11,634
1 point - The Book Thief, $8,709