Boxoffice.com has predictions coming in like this:
1. Secretariat, with $15 million
2. Life as We Know it with $14.5 million
3. Social Network with an even $14
4. Legends of the Guardians with $7
5. The Town with $6.5
I am not great at predicting box office – it is like a foreign language to me. Nonetheless, I think it’s going to go:
1. Secretariat, $22 – $25 million
2. My Soul to Take $19 million
3. The Social Network with $16 – 18 million
4. Life as We Know it with $14
The other two can remain the same. My reasoning is this: the Kathrine Heigl effect is going to play out.¬† My evidence for this is the Twitter chart after the cut. Contrino has no showing for the Wes Craven serial killer film, My Soul To Take. But I think that will get people into the theater, being that it’s getting closer to Halloween.
Boxoffice.com has a nifty feature where they examine the “Twitter effect” and how it reflects box office. What age group is going to be on Twitter and beaming out their interest to go see a movie — well I’m going to guess that we’re talking around 18 through, say, 35.
Film | Tweets | Positive | Negative | |
1 | Paranormal Activity 2 | 2,313 | 330 | 113 |
2 | Jackass 3D | 1,823 | 475 | 78 |
3 | Saw 3D | 1,657 | 330 | 86 |
4 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I | 1,029 | 112 | 17 |
5 | TRON Legacy | 564 | 117 | 36 |
6 | Secretariat | 491 | 149 | 7 |
7 | It’s Kind of a Funny Story | 451 | 160 | 15 |
8 | Life as We Know It | 392 | 138 | 14 |
9 | Burlesque | 353 | 67 | 10 |
10 | Nowhere Boy | 318 | 102 | 5 |
So, how about it, readers? Do you think Wes Craven’s movie will have any impact?