| BOX OFFICE: MADAGASCAR Edges Out PROMETHEUS For The #1 Spot This Weekend |
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| Sunday, 10 June 2012 08:37 |
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Deadline reports that Ridley Scott's Prometheus looks likely to finish the weekend with $49.5M (although other analysts are predicting a final figure closer to $50M). Despite there being talk that it would manage to hold off competition from animated feature, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted - which it did actually manage to do on Friday - that ended up finishing with $59.6M thanks to a big boost from children being at home. Prometheus took $21.4M on Friday, $16.1M on Saturday and $12.4M on Sunday according to @ERCboxoffice. It's debatable whether or not this is a disappointment for Fox as they quite conservatively estimated a weekend total of $56M on Friday and this figure obviously falls short of that. However, an opening of nearly $50M is still very impressive for an R-Rated flick and it exceeds their initial their initial estimate of $30M-$35M. Marvel's The Avengers finished fifth with $10.8M, taking its Read more: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=61373 |
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