Comments on: Friday Box Office History

By: bluegrass79

bluegrass79 — Mon, 16 Feb 2024 06:05:10 +0000

42.2 million oopening weekend! that should guarentee a couple more fridays!

By: Friday Fan

Friday Fan — Sat, 07 Feb 2024 05:02:33 +0000

I work within the film industry on the advertising side. The promotional push that New Line/Warner Brothers is giving this movie is ASTOUNDING considering it’s a remake of a film that has spawned 11 sequels. New Line/WB is very proud of their product and are confident of a huge opening. (I was hearing 35-45 range). On it’s relatively cheap budget, it will be profitable after weekend 1.

While I wish MY company was releasing the film, I will be happy for New Line/WB’s success. They brought back one of my favorite slasher icons and gave the fans the respect we all deserved by doing right by the source material.

My friend at WB said the testing went extremely well and expects positive notices from fans. But this movie is also critic proof as folks are going to seek it out any way.

I am pumped to see this.

By: Yootsi

Yootsi — Thu, 05 Feb 2024 23:02:31 +0000

Adjusted for inflation the original Friday the 13th made 100 million$ in todays money. It will be hard to beat for the new film.

By: TED

TED — Thu, 05 Feb 2024 20:47:58 +0000

Where did you get the official t-shirt John? Or other shirts and hats from Friday the 13th films?

By: e®n

e®n — Wed, 04 Feb 2024 16:55:29 +0000

i follow the box office pretty close every week and i fully expect this movie to be the most successful in the franchise. i don’t know if its gonna do FvJ numbers but i bet it will do really good.

like mentioned before if paul blart can make 30something million opening weekend F13 has NOTHING to worry about

By: Balooeyezz

Balooeyezz — Wed, 04 Feb 2024 15:54:48 +0000

tommyblah – There’s a difference between being critical and insulting. I don’t think I was insulting the Friday franchise. I get critical because, like you, I expect better than crap like “Jason Goes To Hell”. In fact, I think we ultimately agree. I said that both Freddy and Jason had devolved into non-scary characters by the time we got to FvJ. Nowhere did I say that I thought Freddy is more interesting because he talks or that Jason is less interesting because he doesn’t talk. I said that FvJ seems more like an Elm Street movie because screenwriters would rather write for characters who can talk and express themselves.

I’m actually with you – I prefer no talking, and no explanation. I think that’s why Halloween turned to crap, too. It went from “an escaped mental patient stalking a babysitter” to “an underground Druid cult keeping Michael alive so he can strike whenever a certain constellation appears in the night sky”. These hack sequel writers think some huge explanation is really smart. What they don’t understand is that you can’t apply logic or reason to a psychopath who operates outside the realm of logic and reason.

Personally, considering where each franchise was at, I liked the way they combined the storylines in Freddy Vs. Jason, even though it wasn’t scary at all. But I think it’s also worth noting that a HUGE part of the reason why I liked the film was the fact that it had decent characters played by decent actors. I don’t care how fast Jason saunters in part 8 or Jason X – the characters weren’t interesting, their dialogue was really weak, and the actors playing them were substandard. I hadn’t liked a heroine like Lori in FvJ since maybe Tina in The New Blood.

However, if it had been earlier, scarier versions of Freddy and Jason, back when even Freddy didn’t say much, I think we’d agree that it would have been a MUCH better (certainly much scarier) film.

By: tommyblah

tommyblah — Wed, 04 Feb 2024 12:27:43 +0000

uh yeah, Balooeyezz, don’t insult the friday franchise on the friday website. i’m sorry that jason not talking makes him less interesting to you, but to most of us it makes him more interesting. the first & 3rd NOESs are good but eventually freddy talking makes his character less scary and every bit as campy as later portrayals of jason.

yes, jason stopped running after his resurrection but he is still swift in part 6 & 7…he ALWAYS remained brutal and always used unique objects to kill. in fvj his is like a george romero zombie, his eyes are glazed over and he limps around…there is NO friday entry where he does that, even part 8 or JasonX where he’s at his slowest. PLUS 90% of the jason kills in fvj are standard machete slashing, whereas in any friday entry (pick any one) they are loaded up with a bunch of creative kills and just a couple or the final chase scene has the machete.

as for the writing getting bad in later entries, we’re all with you on that. that doesn’t make it okay for Yu to make a crappy movie. if any of us complain, it’s because with each entry we hope for someone to turn it around and do a good job. we WANT to be scared by jason. we WANT him to be mean, aggressive, and intimidating. for a face-off that was 20 years in the making, a face-off between the most notorious slasher villians of all time, i expect greatness. i demand it. and for someone to take those characters and expand on and overemphasize the things that have come to SUCK about them, rather than the good things that made them famous in the first place, it’s just a disgrace. Yu blows.

By: Mark Saw

Mark Saw — Wed, 04 Feb 2024 04:47:36 +0000

Then maybe $40,000,000!!! I guess that depends on what Nightmare did at the box office to see how many people went for Freddy…But Halloween in 07 did…
Opening Weekend: $26,362,367
(3,472 theaters, $7,592 average)
So I’m going to finally go with…
$31,313,131 :)

By: Johnny Boots

Johnny Boots — Wed, 04 Feb 2024 04:10:34 +0000

If anyones looking for Freddy vs Jason numbers…

US box office – $82,622,655

Opening weekend – $36,428,066

Opened on 3,014 screens

By: Mark Saw

Mark Saw — Wed, 04 Feb 2024 03:04:22 +0000

I prefer to look at home many people showed up. Based on average movie ticket prices you can see what the “Home Video” explosion did…Since it appears 6,000,000 or so so far have seen My Bloody Valentine I’m guessing 4,000,000 will see it next weekend for at least $30,000,000

Rank Title Total Gross Date Avg ticket price Att
1 Friday the 13th $39,754,601 5/9/80 2.69 14,778,662
2 Friday the 13th Part 3 $36,690,067 8/13/82 2.94 12,479,614
3 Friday the 13th Part 4 $32,980,880 4/13/84 3.36 9,815,738
4 Friday the 13th Part V $21,930,418 3/22/85 3.55 6,177,582
5 Friday the 13th Part 2 $21,722,776 4/30/81 2.78 7,813,948
6 Friday the 13th Part VI $19,472,057 8/1/86 3.71 5,248,532
7 Friday the 13th Part VII $19,170,001 5/13/88 4.41 4,346,939
8 Jason Goes to Hell 15,935,068 8/13/93 4.14 3,849,050
9 Friday the 13th Part VIII $14,343,976 7/28/89 3.99 3,594,981
10 Jason X $13,121,555 4/26/02 5.80 2,262,337

Average U.S. Ticket Prices
http://www.natoonline.org/statisticstickets.htm

Year
Price
2008 $7.18
2007 6.88
2006 6.55
2005 6.41
2004 6.21
2003 6.03
2002 5.80
2001 5.65
2000 5.39
1999 5.06
1998 4.69
1997 4.59
1996 4.42
1995 4.35
1994 4.08
1993 4.14
1992 4.15
1991 4.21
1990 4.22
1989* 3.99
1988 4.11
1987 3.91
1986 3.71
1985 3.55
1984 3.36
1983 3.15
1982 2.94
1981 2.78
1980 2.69
1979 2.47
1978 2.34
1977 2.23
1976 2.13
1975 2.03
1974 1.89
1971 1.65
1967 1.22
1963 .86
1958 .68
1954 .49
1948 .36

*1989 and laterfigures based on Ernst & Young survey; previous years based on CPI-W index