FilmJabber Movie Blog » prediction http://blog.filmjabber.com Movie news, previews, reviews, photos, trailers and opinions from Erik Samdahl. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:54:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 Sex and the City Box Office… Does Sex Sell? http://blog.filmjabber.com/2008/05/29/sex-and-the-city-box-office-does-sex-sell/ http://blog.filmjabber.com/2008/05/29/sex-and-the-city-box-office-does-sex-sell/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 02:13:17 +0000 Erik Samdahl http://blog.filmjabber.com/2008/05/29/sex-and-the-city-box-office-does-sex-sell/ Sex and the City comes to theaters this weekend, and I have to imagine that box office pundits are nervous about making predictions for this one. It’s a highly anticipated film – among women. In fact, it’s one of the rare female-targeted films that is opening to midnight screenings. A movie theater near me is selling $90 tickets for a three-course meal, Cosmos and a ticket. Sex and the City: The Movie is an event by any stretch of the imagination.

Then again, it’s still a movie aimed toward women. What does that mean for box office dollars? $30 million? $40 million? $60 million? Higher?

Here are some predictions:

In general, it sounds like $30-35 million is the average most “experts” are predicting, and if so, that will be a great feat for a film like Sex and the City, which stars a bunch of “older” women. That being said, don’t you think an event film like this will be considered just a slight disappointment if it comes in second to Indiana Jones? Indiana Jones will fall hard this weekend, but falling from $100 million still means a lot of money.

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