spurgeonryan said:Box Office Report: 'Possession' Strong Labor Day Player, Tops Friday With $6.1 Mil "Lawless" comes in No. 2 with $2.8 million; new kids pic "The Oggieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure" tanking as the final weekend of summer gets underway.The Sam Raimi-produced The Possession could score one of the top Labor Day weekend openings of all time if traffic holds.
Lionsgate's horror pic -- directed by Ole Bornedal and inspired by films including The Exorcist -- topped the Friday chart, grossing $6.1 million for a possible four-day cume of $20 million.
Halloween is the top Labor Day opener of all time, opening to $30.6 million in 2007; Transporter 2 is No. 2, grossing $20.1 million in 2005. Possession stars Kyra Sedgwick, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Natasha Calis. Overall box office revenues will still be down from last year because of the The Help, which turned into a box office hit after opening in mid-August 2011. John Hillcoat's Prohibition-era drama Lawless, which opened Wednesday, is holding safely at No. 2, grossing $2.8 million on Friday for a projected four-day gross of $12.4 million. That would put the film's six-day cume at between $14 million and $15 million. Lawless, from The Weinstein Co., stars Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Guy Pearce and Mia Wasikowska. Anti-Barack Obama documentary 2016: Obama's America continues to do strong business and should finish the Labor Day holiday with a domestic total of nearly $20 million.
Kids entry The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure also opened Wednesday but to continues to fare dismally, coming in No. 24 on Friday with a gross under $100,000 from 2,160 theaters. The pic's six-day opening may only be $1.3 million, marking one of the worst openings of all time for a film playing in that number of theaters. Summer hits The Avengers, Brave and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted are all upping their theater counts this weekend, hoping for a final burst of summer business.
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Reminds me of Delgo. Who made the decision to put that kindgergarten movie at the most on that many theater screens? Dumb!
The Avengers got a screen raise! |
Any movie that has budget of $20 million or more pretty much has to open in 2000+ theaters if it plans to actually make money at the box office. As much as The Oogieloves is going to fail it can't approach Delgo's level of failure. Delgo had a budget of $40 million and only made $915,840 world wide and if those numbers are acurate is was a even bigger failure overseas then domestically, since box office mojo only has its domestic numbers of $694,782 and it only lasted seven days in theaters.
