Year to date, sales are down 8%, and attendance is off 9%, according to. PHOTOS: Scenes from ‘Jack the Giant Slayer’Įstimated total receipts tumbled 35% from the same three-day period last year., making this weekend the sixth in a row that ticket sales have been down compared with a year ago. (The company that released “Phantom,” RCR Media Group, did not report an official weekend gross, so that figure is an estimate from other studios.) And the Cold War submarine thriller “Phantom” posted one of the worst debuts ever for a film in wide release, taking in a jaw-dropping $460,000 from 1,118 theaters. The low-budget horror sequel “The Last Exorcism: Part II” didn’t come close to the original’s $20.4 million opening, grossing just $8 million in its first weekend in theaters. “21 & Over,” an R-rated college-set comedy about a drunken 21st-birthday celebration, was expected to start off with $15 million but instead collected an underwhelming $9 million.
It was a weak weekend at the box office overall, as three other new films also had lackluster debuts. It seems likely that the film will follow in the footsteps of another big-budget box office dud - Walt Disney Studios’ $250 million “John Carter,” which launched with $30.2 million in March 2012 and ultimately collected just $73.1 million domestically. The nearly $200-million 3-D production opened with a disappointing $28 million, according to an estimate from distributor Warner Bros. “Jack the Giant Slayer,” Bryan Singer’s new version of “Jack and the Beanstalk,” didn’t get off the ground this weekend.
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