Real Steel Wins Friday & Weekend By TKO George Clooneys The Ides Of March #2

FRIDAY 10:30 PM UPDATE: Listed here are the Top10 movies in the United States box office tonight. Analysis coming: 1. Real Steel (DreamWorks/Disney) NEW [3,440 Theaters] Friday $8.7M, Believed Weekend $27M 2. The Ides Of March (Smokehouse/The new sony) NEW [2,199 Theaters] Friday $3.7M, Believed Weekend $11M 3.Dolphin Tale (Alcon/Warner Bros) Week 3 [3,478 Theaters] Friday $2.4M, Believed Weekend $8.5M, Believed Cume $48.4M 4. Moneyball (The new sony) Week 3 [3,018 Theaters] Friday $2.1M, Believed Weekend $7M, Believed Cume $48.7M 5. 50/50 (Summit Entertainment) Week 2 [2,479 Theaters] Friday $1.7M (-40%), Believed Weekend $5.5M, Believed Cume $17.3M 6. Courageous (Sherwood/The new sony) Week 2 [1,161 Theaters] Friday $1.3M (-56%), Believed Weekend $4.8M, Believed Cume $16.1M 7. Dream House (Universal) Week 2 [2,664 Theaters] Friday $1.3M (-53%), Believed Weekend $4.5M, Believed Cume $14.5M 8. Lion King three dimensional (Disney) Week 4 [2,267 Theaters] Friday $1.1M,Believed Weekend $5M,Believed Cume $86.4M 9. Abduction (Lionsgate) Week 3 [2,591 Theaters] Friday $875K, Believed Weekend $3M, Believed Cume $23.5M 10. What’s Your Number? (Fox) Week 2 [3,011 Theaters] Friday $1M(-51%), Believed Weekend $3.2M, Believed Cume $10.5M FRIDAY NOON: They are very early estimations. But DreamWorks/Disney’sReal Steel is ruling its northern border American box office today and searching ata mid-$20sM weekendif not greater. Hollywood are only impressed if it makes sense mid-$30sM as this action pic includes a family overlay and it is budget was $110+M. By comparison,overseer and star George Clooney’s newcomerThe Ides Of March from his Smokehouse Pictures and The new sony hadonly a $12.5M production budget after rebates. But this hard-to-sell R-ranked adult political thriller co-starring Ryan Gosling is #2 today. It ought to be in low double numbers for that weekend the modest showing that Hollywood expected. Alcon Entertainment/Warner Bros’Dolphin Tale holds well again and likely are available in around $9M by Sunday evening. Same goes with The new sony Pictures’ baseball picMoneyball within the $7.5M range and also the studio’s belief-basedSherwood Pictures’ Courageous within the $5.5M range. Summit Entertainment’s cancer dramedy 50/50 should finish up within the $5M range. Universal’s Dream Home is not too dreamy having a pretty heftypercentage drop. And Disney’s Lion King three dimensional might be securely in the cage after its Blu-Ray release. Full analysis tonight.