Dateline has preliminary figures for Saturday and the weekend, and as expected, Paramount's THE DEVIL INSIDE took a significant 25+% hit in its second day, a trend that will no doubt continue as stories of audiences in open revolt at the movie's lack of an ending multiply. Even so, it's looking at a $35M weekend at least, making next weekend's inevitable massive drop seem far, far away.
Otherwise the holdovers seem on target with Friday's numbers. The kid-oriented movies like CHIPWRECKED, THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN and WE BOUGHT A ZOO got a big boost from matinee audiences and went up from 80% to more than double; pictures for older crowds like THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO and WAR HORSE had increases of 30-40% (although TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY looks to do a bit better than that); and big-tent franchises like MI4 and SHERLOCK HOLMES 2 should rise 40-50%.
Everything will come down on Sunday, and action movies may drop a bit extra because the NFL playoff games start earlier than they did on Saturday. Stay with SHOWBUZZDAILY for updated boxoffice numbers and analysis!
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