2013 12 13 – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas

$ 2500 per theater -- this is my official number for any crap movie I will see. Especially thrillers, R dramas, R actions. An opportunity to play this out of my hand doesn't show itself this week, but the next one... I think it does.

This weekend we have two openings.

TUESDAY:  My shots per theater!

FRIDAY:  All shots!

MONDAY:  Official numbers!

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DOUBLE U-T-F THE DRAGON IS???

This one, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, is an adventure PG-13 movie, from Warner Bros.

I rewatched the trailer of the first part of The Hobbit and found there following memorable moments:
*  Galadriel at Rivendell,
*  Bilbo fights trolls,
*  Bilbo and Gollum.

Also running dwarves through various sceneries and from various beasts.

Not much for three hours of life, right?

As for the trailer for this movie:
*  Bilbo and spiders in a wood,
*  Evangeline Lilly, Lee Pace, Orlando Bloom (Elves always look good),
*  the BurglaHobbit and the Dragon (we actually don't see the Dragon in the trailer, so I'm more than worried if he shows at all in this movie).

Also dwarves walking through various sceneries, and various characters (not just dwarves) fighting with various beasts.

Not much as well, right?

I didn't see the first one in a theater. After seeing the trailer I don't have the urge to see the second part in a theater. It may get a small bump compared to the first one's number, but it won't be bigger than $ 1000-2000 per theater.

Shots:

$ 97 mln  --  SaberToothDragon, BoxOfficeFrontier
$ 87,5 mln  --  Edward Douglas, ComingSoon
$ 86,79 mln  --  Mario Ludwinski, USBOPredictions2013  (3903 theaters, $ 22,237 per theater)
$ 82,5 mln  --  Mitch Metcalf, ShowBuzzDaily

$ 82 mln  --  C.S. Strowbridge, The-Numbers
$ 82 mln  --  Laremy Legel, RopeOfSilicon
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$ 80 mln  --  Box Office team
$ 80 mln  --  ThisIsNotMyName, BoxOfficePredictionsOnline
$ 78 mln  --  Gitesh Pandya, BoxOfficeGuru

$ 75,8 mln  --  Damon Houx, ScreenCrave

$ 75 mln  --  Andy Burns, BiffBamPop
$ 74 mln  --  Sensei White Lotus, BreitBart
$ 73,65 mln  --  the official weekend number of the movie  (3903 theaters, $ 18,869 per theater)
$ 70,9 mln  --  Ray Subers, BoxOfficeMojo
$ 70 mln  --  Perri Nemiroff, Shockya
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NEXT YEAR, A MADEA'S UNFORTUNATE LION TAMER CAREER, MAYBE?

This one, Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas, is a comedy PG-13 movie, from Lionsgate.

I watched all available previous trailer for Madea movies. I find this one the least interesting. I bet fans of characters in fat suit will drive to see this. They always do. Even if this movie consisted of 5 minutes of the fake-Santa-teases-children joke, and then 85 minutes of silence. This is exactly what the trailer advertises. It is a strange idea, but Mr. Perry probably knows what he is doing.

Bad Grandpa of this year opened with $ 9609. I'd like this movie would do a bit worse per theater. But it opens in 1000+ less theaters, so the crowd will be squeezed better.

Shots:

$ 33 mln  --  Box Office team
$ 31,5 mln  --  Laremy Legel, RopeOfSilicon
$ 31 mln  --  SaberToothDragon, BoxOfficeFrontier
$ 30 mln  --  Perri Nemiroff, Shockya
$ 30 mln  --  Andy Burns, BiffBamPop
$ 30 mln  --  Mitch Metcalf, ShowBuzzDaily
$ 29 mln  --  C.S. Strowbridge, The-Numbers
$ 28,5 mln  --  Damon Houx, ScreenCrave
$ 27,9 mln  --  Ray Subers, BoxOfficeMojo
$ 27 mln  --  Sensei White Lotus, BreitBart
$ 26 mln  --  Gitesh Pandya, BoxOfficeGuru
$ 25,4 mln  --  Edward Douglas, ComingSoon
$ 25 mln  --  ThisIsNotMyName, BoxOfficePredictionsOnline
$ 21,61 mln  --  Mario Ludwinski, USBOPredictions2013  (2194 theaters, $ 9849 per theater)
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$ 16,01 mln  --  the official weekend number of the movie  (2194 theaters, $ 7296 per theater)

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