Thirteen is looking like a lucky number for Pixar. Brave, the studio’s thirteenth release, will keep their perfect streak of number one debuts very much intact. From a Pixar-record of 4,164 locations (67% in 3D) Brave earned an estimated $24.5 million on Friday. That puts the PG-rated feature on track for an opening weekend of almost $70 million – slightly more than Pixar’s last movie, Cars 2, realized on this weekend in 2011. Projections are not quite as sanguine for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Though Fox’s R-rated genre-bender should avoid becoming a Jonah Hex-sized embarrassment, it also looks unlikely that director Timur Bekmambetov’s latest will taste success. From 3,106 locations, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter earned an estimated $6.3 million on Friday. Projections put the film just under $15 million for the weekend, though I wouldn’t be surprised to see that figure fall further. We’ll have full details tomorrow.
| Title | Friday | Total | |
| 1 | Brave | $24,518,000 | $24.5 |
| 2 | Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | $6,300,000 | $6.3 |
| 3 | Madagascar 3 | $6,115,000 | $143.4 |
| 4 | Prometheus | $2,900,000 | $101.4 |
| 5 | Rock of Ages | $2,515,000 | $23.2 |
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I don’t know if anybody’s mentioned this yet, but Timur Bekmambetov’s last film Wanted was also released the same day as a Pixar movie. Bad box office luck.
Except for the fact that on the opening weekend Walle made 63 million and Wanted wasn’t close behind with 50…. I wouldn’t say it’s bad luck so much as the movie is shit so people don’t want to see it.