TAKE IT TO THE BANKS - THE FILMS OF 4/22

[Shrykespeare]

No column this week. No worries.


Friday Estimates:

The Jungle Book, $16.4M
The Huntsman: Winter's War, $7.3M
Barbershop: The Next Cut, $3.1M
The Boss, $1.9M
Zootopia, $1.8M
Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, $1.5M


Weekend Projections:

The Jungle Book, $60M
The Huntsman: Winter's War, $19.5M
Barbershop: The Next Cut, $11M
Zootopia, $6.6M
The Boss, $6.2M
Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, $5.5M
Criminal, $3.3M
Compadres, $1.5M
Miracles from Heaven, $1.1

[Shrykespeare]

Milestone birthdays:

Hayley Mills turned 70 on 4/18
Eric Roberts turned 60 on 4/18
Melissa Joan Hart turned 40 on 4/18
Tim Curry turned 70 on 4/19
Charlotte Rae turned 90 on 4/22
Glen Campbell turned 80 on 4/22
John Waters turned 70 on 4/22
Jeffrey Dean Morgan turned 50 on 4/22
Amber Heard turned 30 on 4/22

[Spectre]

No column this week. No worries.

"The Huntsman: Winter's War came out this week. It was horrible and died a merciful death at the box office. Nothing else new cracked the Top 5. The end."

[W]

I looked at Eric Roberts' IMDb page a few days ago and said WTF? He does like 50 things a year.

[Chienfantome]

That's the thing when you only make films of the quality Mr Roberts does. You make dozens a year because one of them might turn out to be decent...

[Shrykespeare]

Weekend Estimates

Top 10:
5 points - The Jungle Book, $60.8M
4 points - The Huntsman: Winter's War, $20M
3 points - Barbershop: The Next Cut, $10.8M
2 pointS - Zootopia, $6.6M
1 point - The Boss, $6.1m
Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, $5.5M
Criminal, $3.1M
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, $2.1M
Compadres, $1.3M
Eye in the Sky, $1.2M
A Hologram for the King, $1.2M

I am beyond impressed with Zootopia. It's been a long time since a movie has hung around in the Top 5 for eight weeks (discounting Star Wars).

And Jungle Book - wow. It looks like there will be FOUR $300M earners before we even hit May. Just unreal.



PTA:
5 points - The Jungle Book
4 points - Green Room
3 points - Sing Street
2 points - The Huntsman: Winter's War
1 point - Barbershop: The Next Cut

The Meddler, Compades and Hologram all just missed.

[numbersix]

There's a discrepancy with The Meddlar's PTA. Deadline has reported it earned 60K for the weekend, giving it a PTA of 15K, meaning it's tied for top spot. I guess the actuals tomorrow will clarify.

[Spectre]

It looks like Box Office Mojo, in all their former glory, used The Meddler's PTA as its total box office take.

[BanksIsDaFuture]

Sorry guys, I hadn't been on since Thursday morning.

The usual will resume this upcoming week.

[Brockster]

I looked at Eric Roberts' IMDb page a few days ago and said WTF? He does like 50 things a year.

"Pop it Tommy...pop it!!!!!!!"

[Shrykespeare]

Weekend Actuals

Top 10:
5 points - The Jungle Book, $61.5M
4 points - The Huntsman: Winter's War, $19.4M
3 points - Barbershop: The Next Cut, $10.5M
2 pointS - Zootopia, $6.6M
1 point - The Boss, $6.2M
Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, $5.5M
Criminal, $3.1M
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, $2.1M
Compadres, $1.4M
Eye in the Sky, $1.2M
A Hologram for the King, $1.1M


PTA:
5 points - The Jungle Book, $15,278
4 points - The Meddler, $14,256
3 points - Green Room, $6,580
2 points - The Huntsman: Winter's War, $5,129
1 point - Sing Street, $4,978

[numbersix]

Has Banks flown the coop?

[Shrykespeare]

Has Banks flown the coop?

Don't think so. He was here today.

[BanksIsDaFuture]

Has Banks flown the coop?

Nope, column will be up tonight.
Just have to find someway to talk about Ratchet & Clank without resorting to "WTF is this"

[W]

Ratchet and Clank is a poorly marketed film from a Playstation game series. It looks like it filled the niche that Crash Bandicoot used to. PSX generally doesn't get kids games right (LittleBigPlanet aside). I play most of the games that come out for PlayStation and have only spent less than an hour with the series. They put a $40 new budget release out a few weeks ago, lowering the price to hopefully get some more people in the theater) and I don't think it did that well.