I decided to wait a few weeks before posting an update on the challenge. Since my last challenge post, we've seen the release of 4 new releases: Star Trek Into Darkness, Fast & Furious 6, The Hangover Part 3 and Epic. Out of the 4, only Fast 6 has had an impressive first week.
Star Trek, while doing solid box office, hasn't kept pace with the 2009 reboot. Hangover 3 has not only made half of what Hangover 2 made opening weekend, it actually opened lower than the original did back in 2009. Epic, while not a sequel, comes from studio Fox which also released the Ice Age Movies, Robots and Rio. All of which had higher opening weekends than Epic with lower budgets.
As I post this, new releases Now You See Me and After Earth are not doing well enough to unseat Fast & Furious 6 from the weekend top spot which means highly unlikely they'll do so for it's first full week ending Thursday.
This upcoming weekend has The Internship and The Purge releasing, neither of which are in this challenge so it's an open week for the 5 previously released movies to make as much as possible before Man Of Steel bows the weekend of June 14.
I'll update the week after Man of Steel releases. Stay tuned.
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