BOX OFFICE: Real Steel Heading For A Mid 20 Million Dollar Weekend

BOX OFFICE: Real Steel Heading For A Mid 20 Million Dollar Weekend

Early reports suggest that Real Steel, the robot boxing movie staring Hugh Jackman, will knock out the competition this weekend with a mid 20million dollar first outing.

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By WaylonJones - Oct 07, 2011 12:10 PM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: Deadline


Hugh Jackman is back this weekend in his upcoming film Real Steel. The movie which puts the focus on robot boxing set in the near future is, according to Deadline, heading towards a 20 million dollar weekend with possibilities that it could reach 30. Real Steel is set to beat out George Clooney's new movie The Ides Of March as well as current number one and family friendly film Dolphin Tale.



These are very early estimates. But DreamWorks/Disney’s Real Steel is dominating the North American box office today and looking at a mid-$20sM weekend if not higher. Hollywood will only be impressed if the result is mid-$30sM because this action pic has a family overlay and its budget was $110+M.


Many had written off Real Steel as a film that they were not willing to see, but as time wore on many people, myself included, have changed their opinion about the film and have decided to give it a chance. Real Steel is currently 59% rated fresh on Rotten Tomatoes receiving mixed reviews by critics.

Real Steel stars Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Kevin Durand, Hope Davis, and hits theater TODAY!!!

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SmokinIndo
SmokinIndo - 10/7/2011, 1:10 PM
20 million dollars is weak. The abysmal Green Lantern made more than twice that amount.
m1312020
m1312020 - 10/7/2011, 1:12 PM
Has anyone seen it yet?Most watch are wait to rent.
superotherside
superotherside - 10/7/2011, 1:12 PM
interesting... I'd really like the Avengers trailer to get bootleged off of it now... :)
BRandom
BRandom - 10/7/2011, 1:20 PM
@superotherside....its funny, but i think ab 90% are only interested un this movie for the avengers trailer
Kaziganthi
Kaziganthi - 10/7/2011, 1:21 PM
@indoraptor12 - Green Lantern was also much more highly anticipated and was released during the summer.
robbo1701
robbo1701 - 10/7/2011, 1:21 PM
im actually gonna go see this i think looks funny if nothing else and maybe a good blood pressure dropper or something lol
LtAnarchy
LtAnarchy - 10/7/2011, 1:22 PM
I saw this movie earlier this week and i loved i recommend it. its not just the typical fighting robot movie that it looks like it is.
Kaziganthi
Kaziganthi - 10/7/2011, 1:23 PM
I want to see it but my wife falls into the category of those that say "it looks like a stupid Rock-em-Sock-em robots movie". Guess I won't see it with her!
santoanderson
santoanderson - 10/7/2011, 1:31 PM
I saw it - no Avengers trailer.
marvel72
marvel72 - 10/7/2011, 1:41 PM
i'll wait & see if my mate as got it on download yet.
patriautism
patriautism - 10/7/2011, 1:44 PM
Just got home from watching it.. FANTASTIC movie!
I really didn't expect it to be as good as it is when I first saw the trailer.
drykillogic22
drykillogic22 - 10/7/2011, 1:44 PM
They should have saved this idea for Golum in a Batman Beyond Movie...I'll see it tho.
PaulRom
PaulRom - 10/7/2011, 1:46 PM
Looks pretty good, I'll see if I can watch it next week or so.
manichispanic
manichispanic - 10/7/2011, 1:52 PM
i saw it. it was really good.
hoodedjester
hoodedjester - 10/7/2011, 1:56 PM
I've read some horrible reviews of it but I think I'll still give it a go - looks pretty entertaining. Besides, who doesn't like watching robots beating on one another
nuck82
nuck82 - 10/7/2011, 1:58 PM
so sounds like they got another GL on there hands
SugarYumYum
SugarYumYum - 10/7/2011, 2:06 PM
It looks pretty fun and interesting, I'll probably catch it one night with some friends.
Chewtoy
Chewtoy - 10/7/2011, 2:10 PM
@indoraptor12: Green Lantern opened in the summer. No fall film has ever opened as high as Green Lantern did... the current Fall record is $50.3m by Jackass 3D.

If Real Steel can open to more than $33m it'll be in the top ten biggest Fall openings of all time.
marvel72
marvel72 - 10/7/2011, 2:11 PM
@ teabag

yeah good mate,same ole shit.

but yeah pretty good though,got some trades in the post from forbidden planet.

-venom
-x-men first to last
-silver surfer devolution
-infinity gauntlet(got the comics when they first came out but they're in the attic so i've got the trade for bookshelf.)

how have you been,haven't seen you or any porn on this site in weekes.

maybe there is a connection between the two. :D
marvel72
marvel72 - 10/7/2011, 2:30 PM
@ teabag

poor tea,i know what will get you out of that depression.

start posting some tits,you'll get reported get some of the good ole troll badges back.

the other day intruder,bigtodd71 & i had every troll badge known to man,it of must been about ten maybe more. :D
Hatsas01
Hatsas01 - 10/7/2011, 2:33 PM
Saw it today - NO Avengers trailer.
Talontd
Talontd - 10/7/2011, 2:38 PM
Your dumb if you don't see this, one of the best actors of our generation, Anthony Mackie is in it!
marvel72
marvel72 - 10/7/2011, 3:08 PM
@ teabag

XD hahahahahahahaha
Aizen8215
Aizen8215 - 10/7/2011, 3:13 PM
@Teabag... you real sad..... LMAO!!!!!
CVTom
CVTom - 10/7/2011, 3:28 PM
$20 million is actually not bad for a non-holiday movie release. Considering that movie releases slow down from September to November, more people might go see this movie over time.
drykillogic22
drykillogic22 - 10/7/2011, 5:51 PM
@tea..Nice..I swear the one in the middle is winking at me.
Rivehn
Rivehn - 10/7/2011, 9:19 PM
AMAZING MOVIE....give us a prequel. I wanna see how Atom was made.
CapA
CapA - 10/7/2011, 10:45 PM
Saw it last night, it was pretty good. I'd be surprised if it wasn't a success in the US.
Shredder
Shredder - 10/7/2011, 11:21 PM

Saw this Friday ... it was surprisingly VERY GOOD and worth checking out!
efesone
efesone - 10/7/2011, 11:51 PM
I watched it and as a comic book fan I'm really sorry to saying that this movie better than all comic book movies released in this year story wise and acting wise, I recoment to everyone and special effects not bad. I couldn't wait for bluray.
Ichaos
Ichaos - 10/8/2011, 6:10 AM
The movie was great. Makes you want to go and get your own robot. The movie has more depth than just robots punching each other. Thats Transformer's "plots". Great movie and once you get past the boxing robots you realize this is not just a movie for geeks.

Though the ending was a bit borrowed and those that saw it will know what I mean. I wont elaborate as it would lead to spoilers

It's a definite one to see and worth a trip to the theater.

@efesone the special effects were good but its a movie that tells a story. It's a perfect example of a movie which uses effects as a tool as part of the story telling process and not what forms the plot (like Micheal Bay tends to do)
Ichaos
Ichaos - 10/8/2011, 6:17 AM
@Kaziganthi tell your wife she will like the movie. Her first impression is understandable but she will be pleasantly suprised.
Ichaos
Ichaos - 10/8/2011, 6:23 AM
Geesh people whats with the obsession with how much money a movie makes? Green Lanter probably had twice the budget, the acting was ho hum and the writing was crap. real Steel cost almost half of that Crappy Green Lantern film so one day they maybe made a quarter of their money back already
Ichaos
Ichaos - 10/8/2011, 6:28 AM
Mr Moviefone is an idiot and probably phones his moviefone reviews in. A lot of things is better than Transforms 3. The difference is there is an actual story about people and good acting etc. Transformers 3 is just a big toy commercial.
Moonwalker1991
Moonwalker1991 - 10/8/2011, 2:38 PM
I want to see this. Looks like an interesting film.
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