Weekend Forecast: 'Out of the Furnace'
Featured Stories - on December 04, 2013 by BoxOffice Staff
The only wide release scheduled for December 6 is Out of the Furnace, starring Christian Bale.
Out of the Furnace
PROS:
- The strong ensemble cast led by Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, and Zoe Saldana.
- Director Scott Cooper found great critical acclaim with 2009's Crazy Heart.
- Being the lone new release of the weekend serves as an opportunity for counter-programming against the female-driven Catching Fire and Frozen.
CONS:
- Aside from Bale's success in the Dark Knight trilogy and The Fighter, he hasn't become a consistent box office draw yet.
- Crazy Heart wasn't a big commercial hit, so selling the film as "from the director of..." that pic won't do much to help Furnace.
- In between a busy Thanksgiving weekend and next week's release of the new Hobbit movie means a lot of moviegoers will stay at home.
Check out our forecast for Out of the Furnace and the remainder of this weekend's top 10 in the table below.
| Title | Release Date | Distributor | Opening Weekend | Domestic Total through Sunday, Dec. 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frozen (2013) | Nov 22, 2013 | Disney |
$30,500,000 | $133,500,000 |
| The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Nov 22, 2013 | Lionsgate |
$30,000,000 | $340,300,000 |
| Out of the Furnace | Dec 4, 2013 | Relativity Media |
$7,000,000 | $7,000,000 |
| Thor: The Dark World | Nov 8, 2013 | Disney |
$5,000,000 | $193,900,000 |
| The Best Man Holiday | Nov 15, 2013 | Universal |
$4,200,000 | $68,800,000 |
| Homefront | Nov 27, 2013 | Open Road |
$3,500,000 | $15,500,000 |
| Delivery Man | Nov 22, 2013 | Disney / DreamWorks |
$3,300,000 | $24,300,000 |
| The Book Thief | Nov 8, 2013 | Fox |
$2,800,000 | $12,200,000 |
| Philomena | Nov 22, 2013 | Weinstein Company |
$2,400,000 | $8,400,000 |
| Black Nativity | Nov 27, 2013 | Fox Searchlight |
$1,900,000 | $7,300,000 |
Phil Contrino, Daniel Garris, Alex Edghill, and Shawn Robbins contributed to this report.
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