“Star Trek Into Darkness” is taking off at the box office like a, well, rocket, headed toward something like $100 million for its extended debut weekend, Deadline founder Nikki Finke reports.
She has all the details on the auspicious launch of J.J. Abrams’ second take on the Trek universe here:
http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/star-trek-into-darkness-3d-opens-to-2m-late-night-and-imax/
Strong overnight and Friday matinee numbers have even rival studios saying “The Great Gatsby” film could roll up enough box office to challenge heavyweight “Iron Man 3” for the weekend box office championship, reports Deadline Editor in Chief Nikki Finke: http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/the-great-gatsby-overperforms-for-3-250-late-shows-breaking-record-for-female-driven-films/
For a film designed to appeal to a strongly female audience, going against the second week of a gigantic opener such as “Iron Man 3,” which had the No. 2 all-time debut last weekend, is saying something.
What do you think? Are you going to see Gatsby, Iron Man or anything else this weekend?
That sound of 1,000 trains roaring toward you? No, it’s not the tornado next door. It’s the sound of “Iron Man 3,” the summer movie season’s first big popcorn flick, roaring through box offices around the globe, reports Deadline’s Nikki Finke here:
http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/iron-man-3-21-5m-in-china-breaks-all-opening-day-records-263-6m-international-total-without-may-day-yet-u-s-canada-165m-180m-debut-expected-this-weekend/
“Iron Man,” which opens in the U.S. tonight (more or less after midnight, though as Nikki points out, distributors increasingly are doing screenings before the traditional Friday debuts for big movies), has already racked up $300 million worldwide and is on target this weekend to pile up more than half that again just in the United States.
Oh, and Deadline’s Pete Hammond talks with me in today’s “Deadline Awards Watch” about “Iron Man” and what he likes about it (hint: they were really smart in the guy they cast as Tony Stark). That podcast should be posting any time now, so keep your eyes peeled, will you?
Is Relativity’s relatively (like how I did that?) muted response to a Variety piece on its possibly problematic prospects sign of a maturing response by the company’s secretive CEO Ryan Kavanaugh to controversy?
Deadline founder Nikki Finke, no stranger to tangling with the company (or with our now corporate sibling Variety), has a few intriguing thoughts here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/mogul-meme-relativity-responds-to-variety/
All things considered, it was a very solid weekend at the box office, with three films over $20 million and another not far behind, Deadline founder Nikki Finke reports here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/first-box-office-evil-dead-and-jurassic-park-3d-start-strong-in-late-shows/
That may not be amazing, but it suggests there was lots out there for film fans to enjoy, and they did. VERY good sign after a cruddy first quarter.
Did you see anything this weekend? What did you think?
“Oz the Great and Powerful” is definitely living up to its name so far, at least as far as the box office is concerned, says Deadline Editor in Chief Nikki Finke.
You can read her box office updates throughout the weekend here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/03/disneys-oz-tracks-huge-80m-debut/
Will you see “Oz” this weekend or any other movie?
Deadline founder Nikki Finke continues her rolling updates on the box office in this odd mid-week holiday session that makes unusual records possible, records that “Les Miserables” can claim with its excellent first couple of days of box office.
“The Hobbit” and “Django Unchained” continue to sell lots of tickets too, Nikki reports. Read all the latest here:http://www.deadline.com/2012/12/first-box-office-1-%E2%80%98les-miserables%E2%80%99-2-django-opening-huge-on-christmas-day/
‘Les Misérables’ is the No. 1 advance Christmas ticket, Deadline’s Nikki Finke reports (from her hospital bed, no less!): http://www.deadline.com/2012/12/les-miserables-1-advance-xmas-ticket/#mce_temp_url#
This surprises me about not at all. It’ll be big, based on what I saw at last night’s screening of the film. There were ardent fans in the audience, including one woman who lobbed (eventually) a question into cast member Eddie Redmayne in a Q&A after the screening at the TV Academy’s theater.
The woman already had seen a previous screening over the weekend at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, she said. From the sound of it, she’s likely to be seeing the film a few more times before 2012 is done. Perhaps she’ll even go to one where she has to pay, just to, you know, make sure she really likes it.
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Deadline.com founder Nikki Finke, with what our editors are titling “2013 Golden Globes: Nikki’s Annual Censure.”
It is safe to say she has a low opinion of the Globes and the organizations behind it, beginning with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
It’s worth reading the reasons for her well articulated ire, and casting a weather eye at the Globes when they roll ‘round in January. Here’s the link to the story: http://www.deadline.com/2012/12/2013-golden-globes-nikki%E2%80%99s-annual-censure/
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