Your Complete Weekend Box Office Tracking, Predictions, & Analysis (04.02.15)

	FURIOUS 7	$110 million
	HOME	$26 million
	GET HARD	$14 million
	INSURGENT	$9 million
	CINDERELLA	$8 million

There’s not much to say, this week. Furious 7 is going to sweep the box office. If the tracking and social media numbers weren’t enough to convinces me (it has 54 million Facebook likes), the fact that everyone I know seems to have spent the last week doing a complete franchise rewatch would. Reviews are glowing. Excitement is high. The tragic death of franchise star Paul Walker, sadly, must also be taken into account, as it will likely draw in an audience. Furious 6 made almost $100 million in its opening weekend; Furious 7 should make significantly more.

	Opening Weekend	Current Gross	Facebook Likes	Tweets
FURIOUS 7	N/A	N/A	54,155,235	222,542
HOME	$52.108 million	$63.72 million	–	–
GET HARD	$33.803 million	$41.749 million	194,302	134,154
INSURGENT	$52.264 million	$91.381 million	4,904,840	236,092
CINDERELLA	$67.877 million	$154.916 million	13,292,092	42,087

And now the best of the rest. Last week’s breakout Home, as the freshest kids’ option on the table, should hang on reasonably well, dropping by no more than 50 percent. Get Hard, on the other hand, may have more problems; although it’s a comedy and not an action film, it shares significantly more of its demographic with Furious 7, and could struggle in its shadow. Insurgent will likely continue experiencing fatigue in its third week, with another drop of around 60 percent, while Cinderella, if trends continue, will drop 50 percent. The #2 – #5 spots should keep the same relative order as last weeks #1 – #4 — although Insurgent and Cinderella will end up close enough that they could trade places.

	Rotten Tomatoes			IMDb		Metacritic
	Critics	Users	# of Ratings	Stars	# of Ratings
FURIOUS 7	82	N/A	136,361	8.6	14,105	66
HOME	47	69	24,629	6.8	4,679	55
GET HARD	29	61	30,069	6.3	4,451	34
INSURGENT	31	68	51,690	7.0	24,821	42
CINDERELLA	85	86	47,381	7.6	23,778	67

(Sources: boxoffice.com, rottentomatoes.com, imdb.com, metacritic.com. Starred figures are estimates. Tweets represent figures for this week only. Figures represent numbers at time of writing, and may have changed. Tracking Board does not report Rotten Tomatoes user ratings for movies that have not yet seen wide release.)

Madelyn Glymour | Contributor