Lanni expects CityCenter's nongambling grosses, the income from rooms, entertainment and shopping, to deliver 60% of revenue.
Early grosses suggest that Singer has repeated his success, and that there may be further installments to come.
Whether those grosses are fair enough to justify the "Snow White" sequel reportedly in the works seems doubtful.
"The Expendables 2" continued to find solid enough grosses, yet run behind its predecessor in its third weekend.
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And actually drove down the opening grosses when I tripled the advertising level.
If it is targeted at a teenage audience, the Friday grosses are all-important.
Broadway grosses and attendances have generally been on the increase year after year, as has the number of playing weeks.
On top of that, the film set records for largest 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 day grosses.
With only 70 staffers, mostly engineers, Dropbox grosses nearly three times more per employee than even the darling of business models, Google.
Box office grosses and budget estimates are from Box Office Mojo.
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It noted that grosses and attendance figures in the fall were above the numbers generated a year before, but then the storm hit.
Since then, the general public and not just Hollywood players have become increasingly fixated on box office grosses--a phenomenon that continues to this day.
What comes out of the nose often grosses out first-timers, but users say the relief outweighs the revulsion, and they get used to it.
To compile the list, Forbes examined concert grosses, merchandising revenue, album sales and additional revenue streams from ancillary businesses: clothing lines, fragrance deals and endorsements.
After adjusting grosses to reflect changed ticket prices (as in the chart below), five of the top 25 box office earners have won the top award.
Box-office grosses are monitored closely from the first day, with the emphasis on different segments of the weekend according to what kind of picture it is.
"The lost performances and the understandable slower return to Broadway by our tri-state area theatergoers contributed to the decline in both grosses and attendance, " said Charlotte St.
As with many other genres of film, from a sheer numbers perspective, if you want the big grosses, you have to commit the big bucks to the production.
But while "Into Darkness" isn't improving upon its predecessor domestically, grosses overseas so far are 82% higher than in the same markets over the same time period, Paramount said.
As for Eastwood, in his five-plus decades in the film business, he has scored--both in box office grosses and award show acclaim--for his myriad roles in front of and behind the camera.
Comparing the grosses against those of other, similar pictures in the same time-span, the studio computers whirr all weekend to produce the best possible projection, come Monday morning, of the film's ultimate potential.
We estimate that Impact grosses 16% or so.
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"Opening weekends, " historically defined as the 72-hour stretch from Friday through Sunday when a film first plays, are starting earlier, as studios jockey to boost their grosses, build buzz and fill theaters often empty on weeknights.
American films that opened in China after "Life of Pi" and are awaiting their cut of box office grosses in the country include "Skyfall, " released by Sony Pictures Entertainment, "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" from Time Warner Inc.
The drama is playing in one of Broadway's smallest theaters, and the nonprofit Manhattan Theatre Club is geared around limited runs with lower-priced subscription tickets, so its grosses do not neatly compare to shows playing larger commercial houses with higher average prices.
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To compile our list, we looked at worldwide theatrical grosses for the top 200 films to date of 2010 and their estimated budgets (numbers courtesy of Box Office Mojo) to determine what percentage of a film's budget was earned back at the box office.
Foreign box office, DVD-sales and merchandising can do wonders for a film that grosses poorly in the U.S. Among the films on our list, only The 13th Warrior, an epic 1999 flop starring Antonio Banderas, didn't report a worldwide gross that was higher than its production costs.
Today we have what can only be called the preordained blockbuster, with every summer bringing a series of big-budget spectacles that we are basically told ahead of time that we will flock to in massive numbers, creating ever-larger opening weekends and ever-larger global earnings (even as the budgets grow so high as to make those massive global grosses absolutely necessary).
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