“I, Frankenstein” Disappoints, While “Ride Along” Leads at the Box Office

While Stuart Beattie’s “I, Frankenstein” was unable to entertain the audience, earning a dismal projected $8.3 million in 3 days, the domestic box office still observed huge success, owing to great business done by movies like Kevin Hart-Ice Cube comedy “Ride Along” and Peter Berg’s “Lone Survivor” starring Mark Wahlberg. Both films led the box office with $21.2 million and $12.6 million, respectively.

Ride Along is likely to come up with another lead at the box office this weekend, after a $6.3 million previous weekend. It seems that Universal Pictures is going to rule the box office with top 2 films for the 2nd week consecutively, and will snatch its 3rd successive weekend lead. Both films increased Universal Pictures’ domestic total to $60 million and $81 million respectively.

The weekend’s sole wide launch, the Lionsgate’s horror flick “I, Frankenstein” starring Aaron Eckhart (known for Dark Knight) was able to make only $2.8 million from more than twenty-five hundred theaters for 3rd Friday. Produced for $65 million by Lakeshore Entertainment, it is expected that this will be passed by family movies like “The Nut Job” and “Frozen” on Saturday and Sunday, and is going to face quite tough time in order to crack $10 million. As per many experts, “Frankenstein” is projected to do about half the business than the production company has projected ($65 million).

For “I, Frankenstein”, the underachieve of what already would have been an unsatisfying release makes it the huge financial failure until now. However, Laskeshore will have some fiscal relief, as it has already delivered pre-sold overseas rights. The movie’s domestic viewpoint is dismal, in spite of a ‘B’ CinemaScore and quite a satisfactory Imax presentation.

Peter Lepeniotis’s animated film “The Nut Job” made $2.5 million Friday from more than three thousand cinemas, an approximately 48% decrease, and is looking at 2nd week of nearly $11 million and 3rd position. Paramount’s “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” starring Chris Pine made $2.6 million from more than 3 thousand cinemas and is looking at $9 million in 2nd week.

Disney’s box office hit “Frozen” was 5th place bringing in two million dollar Friday – off only 20% from previous week. It is looking at $9 million for tenth week. It has made huge domestic total of $340 million, while internationally making around $767 million.

What do you think about “I, Frankenstein”? Which movie did you like the most?