Nikki Finke: Weekend box office predictions are in!
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Nikki puts in some specific box office predictions for this weekend´s movies. First up is Topic of Thunder, which opened last night.
“We will play to a little older audience than Pineapple Express, so we should do better on Saturday and get to about the same box office,” one insider tells me. But one problem is that, unlike Judd Apatow movies, Tropic Thunder has underweighted wanna-see value among the gals.
Nikki puts in a very specific $42 million opening bet (over the 5 days).
Next up is Star Wars: Clone Wars: “My box office gurus are all over the map on LucasFilm/Warner Bros’ Star Wars: The Clone Wars toon for the geek in all of you (not me) with dominant tracking interest from males over 25, with predictions from a low of $15M to a high of low $20sM from 3,300+ venues. The higher numbers depend on how many 8 to 11 aged boys show up to see it.”
Nikki puts in a $15 to low 20s million range. If she´s right, she will end up winning big on this question!
Finally, Nikki predicts the end of the #1 run for Dark Knight. She´s a little late on this market, but we´ll wait until this weekend to see whether she´s right or not!
