Saturday, May 11, 2013

Friday Box Office Report: "Gatsby" Greater Than Expected, "Iron Man" Plunges, But Still Tops...

It turned out to be a closer Friday race than anyone expected, but box office will still fall just shy of last year...

Iron Man 3 plummeted 72 percent from last Friday to gross an estimated $19.8 million, for a huge $232.8 million gross in eight days.  Yesterday, the movie passed Oz the Great and Powerful to take first place for 2013 so far, but the Friday-to-Friday drop was a bit steeper than Avengers (64%) and Iron Man 2 (69%).  I think