Friday Box Office Analysis

By Tim Briody

April 17, 2010

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Kick-Ass

The comedic comic adaptation gets off to a $7.6 million start. This was probably never going to be that big a breakout, as I'm sure most people didn't even know it was a comic book adaptation. While it's got young actors, it's certainly not geared towards younger audiences, being highly violent (and also rated R), which will prevent it from having a strong weekend. Friday is likely going to be the highest grossing day for Kick-Ass. A weekend multiplier of 2.5 will give it $19 million for the weekend.




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Death at a Funeral

The remake of the 2007 British film starring mostly black actors, the more broadly comedic (than Kick-Ass, anyway) Death at a Funeral opens with $5.5 million. This is tied with Date Night's second Friday, so the two films are pretty much battling it out for, well, date night dollars. It should end up with a better weekend multiplier than Why Did I Get Married Too? had a couple of weeks ago. Give it $14.3 million for the weekend.

Notable Holdovers

Date Night drops 40% from last Friday to $5.5 million. This isn't all that bad for the Steve Carell/Tina Fey comedy, especially in the face of some almost-direct competition from Death at a Funeral. It should sneak ahead of the other comedy in the marketplace for second place on the weekend with an estimate of $16 million.


Projected Estimates for the Top Ten (Three-Day)
Projected
Rank
Film
Estimated Gross
1 Kick-Ass 19.0
2 Date Night 15.9
3 How to Train Your Dragon 15.1
4 Death at a Funeral 14.3
5 Clash of the Titans 13.7
6 The Last Song 5.1
7 Why Did I Get Married Too? 4.0
8 Hot Tub Time Machine 3.0
9 Alice in Wonderland 2.9
10 The Bounty Hunter 2.7

     


 
 

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