The other major opener was True Grit, which showed just that with a solid $5.5 million opening day. The Coen Brothers western should play steadily all weekend, as it's a fine and compelling mass-audience picture. Paramount is hoping for a solid 5.5x multiplier, which would put the film just over $30 million for the weekend. Tron: Legacy pulled in another $5.6 million, which means that it will be a constant race for second place (or first place if Little Fockers crumbles) over the whole weekend. Tron: Legacy is still performing like an inflation-adjusted variation on King Kong, minus the extra $15 million that King Kong got by opening on a Wednesday. King Kong has a 6.5x weekend multiplier over the Wed-Sun portion that made up its second weekend. A similar 6x multiplier would give Tron: Legacy $33 million between yesterday and Sunday and a ten-day total of about $89 million.
It will be interesting to see how well both of the films play to families, as Tron: Legacy is a PG-rated film that looks (in the ads) like a hard-edged PG-13, while True Grit is a PG-13 western that looks R but, save for one moment of brutal and graphic violence and some emotionally-disturbing end-of-film violence, almost could have snuck by with an 'Attack of the Clones PG'.
Scott Mendelson
2 comments:
The little fockers is a great movie, the plot may not be the best and nothing is really new about the fockers family but the actors are great and makes you want to see the next movie as well!
The little fockers is a great movie, the plot may not be the best and nothing is really new about the fockers family but the actors are great and makes you want to see the next movie as well!
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