Now with fresh-popped Add On.
... And out of the gate our friendly neighborhood Nikkster has Dragon in the "show" position:
1. DATE NIGHT (Fox) NEW -- Friday $9.3M, Estimated Weekend $25M
2. CLASH OF THE TITANS (Warner Bros) Week 2 -- Friday $7.4M, Estimated Weekend $24M
3. TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (DreamWorks Animation/Paramount) Week 3 -- Friday $6.7M (-34%), Estimated Weekend $24M
So it appears that HTTYD is holding nicely... with a soft and gentle decline weekend to weekend. (For Titans, the glide path is a teeny bit steeper.)
Add On: Box Office Mojo comes in with its Friday numbers, as follows:
Date Night -- 9.3 million
Clash of the Titans -- $8.4 million -- ($92 million domestic total)
How to Train Your Dragon -- $7.1 million -- ($115.6 million domestic total).
Add On Too:The Hollywood Reporter notes the staying power of DreamWorks' Viking epic:
... DreamWorks Animation's "How to Train Your Dragon" enjoyed a ridiculously sticky third weekend, sliding a mere 13% to fetch $25.4 million in third place. Imax specialty venues contributed 12% of its weekend haul, as the Paramount-distributed pic piled cume to $133.9 million. ...
And B.O. Mojo has all the numbers:
Date Night -- $27.1 million
Clash of the Titans -- $26.9 million
How to Train Your Dragon -- $25.3 million
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Maried Too? -- $11 million
The Last Song -- $10 million
Alice In Wonderland -- $5.6 million
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Fingers crossed that the positive word of mouth pushes Dragon over Titans for the full weekend numbers. Can't think of too many times when a movie comes back from a previous week to overtake a movie that came in first place a weekend past.
That might say as much about Clash as it does Dragon.
"Dragon" deserves first place. "Clash" sucks big time. Even my grandkids prefer the Ray HarryHausen version that was done decades ago.
Fingers crossed that the positive word of mouth pushes Dragon over Titans for the full weekend numbers. Can't think of too many times when a movie comes back from a previous week to overtake a movie that came in first place a weekend past.
One case that springs to mind is the '03 summer that "Finding Nemo" sprang back to #1 after we all found out what an unholy mess "2 Fast/Furious" was.
Causing great ripples of panic and superstition throughout Hollywood that cemented Pixar's reputation as an object of fear and awe, and instrumentally led to the great 2-D Massacre of '03.
Okay, so things aren't that bad this year, but at least Clash is starting to look a little less audience-proof than Warner thought it was before opening--And with any luck, might help lead to a 3-D Massacre.
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