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Current Talk '24 I / Re: Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS Is In Release!!
« on: May 27, 2012, 07:11:36 PM »Box Office Mojo predicts that DS will take in 7.5 million in the USA this weekend.
And that figure doesn't even include the estimate for Memorial Day Monday.
And speaking of box office -
movie attendance in general has been on the decline for years, since we now have so many more choices available to us nowadays (DVDs coming out so much more quickly, cable, on demand, streaming, etc. etc.). So even though there are breakouts like The Avengers, it's tough for a typical box office of today to compare with that of years ago.
- more recently the economy has to be factored in because fewer people are willing to pay to see a film in a theater when they can rent it on DVD/Blu-ray or even pay for on demand for a much cheaper price. And at the beginning of this year in particular, weekend box office figures were very low. I mean, many of the first place films for the weekend struggled to bring in $25 million, and at least a couple couldn't even bring in $20 million. The fact that DS is already one of the Top 15 films of the year so far and its run in theaters probably isn't even half over yet is a testament to how much more successful it has been than so many other films this year so far...
16 days 14 hours 11 minutes 36 seconds since the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows has been in release(ET)!!