I hope I’m not overlooking an existing thread, but since I couldn’t find another current thread discussing the film’s box office totals, I decided to start one.
Anyway, Box Office Mojo has just updated their site with Friday’s estimates! While “Wanted” did better than expected with $18.7 million, Wall-e got an easy #1 with an awesome $23.3 million! This is THE BIGGEST OPENING DAY TOTAL EVER for a Pixar film! The second biggest is The Incredibles with $20.5 opening Friday. The Incredibles is currently Pixar’s biggest opening weekend with $70.4 million, so that means Wall-e is almost definitely going to hit $70+ this weekend and will probably beat The Incredibles opening numbers!
I had a hunch it would be the most grossing film of Pixar yet. For some reason, I thought it would be a little more than that, but any who, that’s certainly enough walking-around money.
Considering that Disney has marketed this film more than they did The Incredibles, Cars, and Ratatouille, and with a character that you can instantly love in the 2 minute trailer, I’d say a lot of people will rush to WALL-E opening weekend.
An estimated $23.3 million for opening weekend is remarkable and expected. I just hope that adjusted for inflation, WALL-E has the highest grossing opening weekend for a Pixar film ever. Everyone deserves and needs to see this film. And I’m not just saying that just because I love Pixar.
(Gosh, don’t even remind me of that dreaded green ogre franchise again!)
Thanks for the correction. I usually edit my posts before I post them, but I think I was too excited about the box office before I pressed the submit button!
Go WALL-E!! It’s funny how DreamWorks makes a decent film for once, and three weeks later, Pixar blows right through it, story wise and box-office wise!!
It would be awesome for this to start off it’s theatre run with a bang! I know it can get the highest weekend opening for a Pixar film ever! GO WALL•E!
And just for information, Dreamworks’ Kung Fu Panda did $60,239,130 on it’s opening weekend, 'tho it was in 4114 theaters vs. Wall-E in 3992 theaters and had less competition.
Hey, we can help this guys. Let’s all go see it again!
The opening weekend gross is estimated to be one-third box office total (per country). Imagine it makes $200 million domestically, and another $300 mil worldwide. We’ve got another winner! How rich is Pixar?!
I went to go see it again today with one of the movie passes I got in a school bonus point auction, but they’re not taking passes for a week or so. I know using coupons doesn’t support the movie, but I’m still kinda bummed. Oh well.
Some movies have opening weekends like that, but I don’t think you should be worried. After all, we got a lot of days to go before we get the total. SO just hold on to your horses. It will get better. I think.
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