If the Weekend Guesstimates hold up, the Top 10 alone would be at $196.1 million, nearly $20 million above the current Thanksgiving record.

Don't worry BK I'm sure if you look hard enough you can find a way to paint a picture of gloomy disappointment.

Thanks for your input as always Libsie. What would I ever do without you.

Once again, Rolling Thunder turns out to be pretty reliable...

Look like Best Picture lineups will be filled with $100m+ grossers, just like The King's Speech year, with Lincoln/Argo/Life of Pi/Les Mes at least.

Some really great numbers. So impressive for Silver Linings Playbook. It probably would have done just fine in wide release this week I think. Though this way will probably be better anyway.

And despite losing 955 theaters Argo is looking to drop in the single digits.

Argo is looking at a tiny sub-10% drop despite having lost more than 950 theatres!

Also Skyfall's third Friday (even with Thanksgiving help) being pretty much identical to Casino Royale's first is all kinds of amazing.

Has anyone seen any numbers for Anna Karenina in its expansion?

Wreck it Ralph's number is really impressive considering it lost over 1700 theaters.

The top 3 did substantial #'s as well.

lol

1600, whatever.

http://boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?s ... -23&p=.htm

http://boxofficemojo.com/counts/chart/? ... =47&p=.htm

It lost 363 theatres which makes much more sense too.

Oh well boxoffice.com says it lost 1604. nvm

Fantastic numbers, though Guardian is clearly the only sore spot so far, though that's a great Friday recovery for it.

Skyfall is doing phenomenal. It still looks set for $300 m. It looks like $1 billion is getting to be a stronger possibility. Adjusted for inflation, it looks set for #3 on the list of all time biggest James Bond films.

Lincoln is showing an absolutely stunning box office performance thus far. This early in the game it looks like it has a chance at $200 m. IMO, after a string of disappointments, underperformances, or films just meeting expectations, this is Spielberg's first big overperformance for a film in about 10 years, since Catch Me If You Can or 14 years ago with Ryan.

Breaking Dawn looks like it will just miss $300 m, though any type of bigger than expected Christmas bump up will help it get there.

Life of Pi is doing great business as well. It is getting a large share of family audiences, so seems to be hurting Guardians. Very strong start though.

Q4 is making a great recovery after a terrible second half of the summer. Its great momentum for 2013.

When I said a couple of weeks ago that Skyfall deserves $1 billion, I really didn't think it had even a remote shot. But I'm glad things turned out differently.

$708,370,000 worldwide total so far ($508 m ww as of November 18th)
+another $100 m domestically to get to $300 m
+Upcoming international markets:

Australia 22 November 2012; New Zealand 22 November 2012; South Africa 30 November 2012; Japan December 2012; China 2013

+overseas holdover markets (made $49.5 million last weekend)

It looks like a strong possibility for $1 billion.

At this point, $1 billion worldwide is a lock. As of now it is at $708 million worldwide, with another $100 million to come from the US and it has yet to open in Australia (opens there this weekend), China and Japan, while it is still doing good numbers from all around the world. Quantum of Solace did $20.6 million in Australia, Casino Royale more than $25 million. In Japan the two did between $18-22 million. It is fair to assume that, like everywhere else, Skyfall will increase in both markets. Also, China should give it great numbers since parts of the film were filmed there. At this point, it'll give TDKR ($1.08 billion) the run for its money worldwide. If it breaks out in China, I wouldn't rule out $800 million overseas.

I think there's a fear of a movie opening there, and then losing theaters/screens as all the Christmas openers come out, therefore missing out on that Xmas/New Years boost. And there's probably added worry of The Hobbit completely crushing everything when it first opens. But it's still a very stupid move.

Skyfall outgrossing TDKR WW would be the upset of the year if that were to happen.

It's not far-fetched. If it makes $40 million from Australia/New Zealand, $35 million from Japan, $60 million from China and $100 million from USA, it'll need "just" $140 million from the rest of the world to top TDKR. Considering it made $49.5 million internationally, has great WoM and Christmas ahead...not unlikely, is it?

Right now I'm projecting $1.05 billion, though.

I'm very curious to see the drop for The Perks of Being a Wallflower. It lost more than half of its theaters, but it could have a strong average at the remaining ones.

Darling Nikki reports $307,000 for ANNA KARENINA on Friday...

It'll probably open within the same week (looks like on the same day) as The Hobbit in China. That'll cut its gross here quite considerably. Plus, it'll open in January, so there's a small factor of it being old (compared to The Hobbit which will still be brand new worldwide), and Chinese like new things, that's not a big big deal, but it's worth considering as fake DVDs are huge here and if a movie has been released in 95% of the world but not China, then you can be sure that a fake DVD of Skyfall is somewhere here.

$1b is still in play, just want you to be aware of the stuff that might hinder it.

And the Chinese do not care whether it was filmed here or not. That will have no bearing whatsoever. The only thing that does is attempt to qualify it as a co-production and therefore the release pattern will benefit it, but opening against The Hobbit is showing that the Chinese government do not care about the co-production status and they will still try to kill the big foreign movies at the box office.