The current weekend estimate for U.S. ticket sales is $29.3 million, representing a 65 percent drop-off in attendance after last weekend's opening sprint of $84.4 million ($103 million if you also count Memorial Day Monday).
This is more than just a rough start. In the realm of first-run releases (i.e. not counting Special Editions and re-releases), only Star Wars: The Clone Wars fared worse. And that "movie" was really just three episodes of the then-new animated TV series stitched together; its theatrical release, which dropped to less than 1,000 theaters after a month, was largely meant to hype the show. Read more...