'Shutter Island' Takes Friday Box-Office #1 Easily
Last week's top three took a major tumble
Not much of a surprise here as the only question was just how big would Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island go, and the answer for Friday was $14 million in 2,991 theaters. Considering the film's R-rating I would suspect we are looking at a $35-40 million weekend, which, as it turns out, will be the largest debut for a Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio team-up, ahead of the duo's $26.8 million opening weekend in 2006 for The Departed. Comparatively, The Aviator made only $858,021 in a limited opening weekend, followed by an $8.6 million weekend when it went wide in 2004 and Gangs of New York only opened with $9.4 million back in 2002.
Seeing how Shutter Island was the weekend's only wide release, the rest of the field is rather uninteresting. Valentine's Day fell 61% from last weekend and will take the #2 slot for the weekend with $5.6 million on Friday and what is likely to be a $17 million weekend. Percy Jackson managed a meager $4 million and will battle with Avatar for the #3 slot for the weekend. Avatar is likely to win that battle as it scored $3.9 million on Friday and will probably end the weekend around $14-16 million.
Universal's The Wolfman is the weekend's biggest loser, falling 68% from last weekend with only $2.9 million on Friday to take the fifth slot, which will struggle to make $9 million for the weekend, down from $31.7 million from its opening last week. All-in-all, last week's openers performed horribly with Valentine's Day's 61% drop, Percy Jackson's 58% drop and The Wolfman 68% collapse. Yikes!
I have included the complete Friday top ten below courtesy of Variety and I will be doing tomorrow's Box-Office Wrap-Up as Laremy is in Vancouver for the Olympics. See you Sunday morning.
- Shutter Island – $14 million
- Valentine's Day – $5.6 million
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians – $4 million
- Avatar – $3.9 million
- The Wolfman – $2.9 million
- Dear John – $2.35 million
- Tooth Fairy – $1.1 million
- Crazy Heart – $765,000
- From Paris With Love – $716,000
- Edge of Darkness – $614,000
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Glad my Shutter Island prediction was wrong. Happy to see Crazy Heart is still in teh top ten.
Amazing for Shutter Island. I can see it having a Basterds / D9 type of run, with $37-39 million opening and $120+ million final. Here's hoping it will have good legs. And the more it makes, the better, anyway.
Actually, Percy Jackson will only fall by about 52% by calculating, and Valentines Day…ouch. Maybe Laremy was right about it not hitting 100 mil. It's 2nd weekend is dreadful
Actually, Valentine's Day has had impressive weekday take-ins and I think if Cop Out or The Crazies didn't beat it down, it could surpass 90 million within the next couple weekends.
I think the weekend after next – when ALICE IN WONDERLAND comes out – will be the first weekend in which AVATAR will experience a weekend B.O. in the single digits.
However, if it still manages to do 10 million or more after most of its 3D screens are taken by ALICE, then it might still maintain its "legs" and might go past 735 million.
I wonder if it could've reached 800 million had ALICE, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, and CLASH OF THE TITANS not taken all the 3D screens in the country. Might've even reached 3 billion WW, but we'll never know.
So happy for Shutter Island, it was a solid movie with an awesome ending.
Once the weekend actuals come in, I expect the drops to stand at such:
Valentine's Day: -68%
Percy Jackson: -52%
Wolfman: -70%
So in the end, the drop for "Valentine's Day" will be almost as bad as Wolfman. And my prediction for the former will be almost spot on. I just knew it would drop. And as for Wolfman, it may just end up being the Watchmenesque dropper that I was originally predicting. Though I won't make that judgement yet, because this weekend's drops are inflated by last weekend's Sunday rises.
shutter island deserves it, im just curious about its legs
So what VALENTINES DAY dropped hugely. It still is a huge sucess for that movie.