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Post by bot on Oct 6, 2013 0:33:04 GMT -8
Friday Box Office: 'Gravity' Earns $17m, Rockets Towards $50m www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2013/10/05/friday-box-office-gravity-earns-17m-rockets-towards-50m/Well, the good news for George Clooney is that Batman & Robin is probably no longer his biggest opening weekend. And Sandra Bullock probably has a new record opening weekend too, which would be her fifth such "record" in her last seven films (a stunning statistic I'll go into tomorrow). But poor director Alfonso Cuaron, he'll have to settle for Gravity being his second-biggest debut behind the $93m opening of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Yes, Gravity is indeed skyrocketing way past even reasonable expectations, with $17.5 million on Friday alone. Considering how not front-loaded it was on Thursday (just $1.4 million), it stands to reason that this one is going to play like an old-school hit film. If it makes it to 2.9x for the weekend, it'll top $50 million.
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