It’s “Let “The Games” begin” Weekend!
“The Hunger Games” is set to open on Friday – but already the film is setting box office records:
– 15th largest # of theaters (over 4,000) for an opening.
– Largest pre-sale for a non-sequel in movie history
With over 2000 screening already sold out (as of Wednesday night), estimates have the film making $140M for the weekend, which will begin with midnight showings all over the country. But not only that, most IMAX theaters are following their 12AM shows with 3AM shows. Yes, 3AM! And the movie is 2:20 long, meaning a lot of Denny’s restaurants will be serving a lot of early breakfasts to a lot of “hungry Hunger” moviegoers Friday morning.
My Box Office prediction for “The Hunger Games”: $135M, which would be twice what the original “Twilight” made in it’s opening weekend. That’s an amazing number. I haven’t read the book and am trying to avoid all the coverage of the build-up so that I can go into the theater knowing as little about the story as possible. It’s going to be very tough for the film to live-up to the hype.