User blog:Ceauntay/Box Office Report: 'Victorious: The Movie' To Become Biggest Opening For Musical Film Ever

="Update: The musical teen comedy could beat "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" as biggest opening ever for a musical film.=

Victorious: The Movie will not only be victorious at the box office, but wil also break box offie records as biggest opening for a musical film, lagging ahead of other releases like biopic 42 coming in second and horror spoof comedy Scary Movie 5 in third.

Victorious: The Movie is on track for $14 to $17 million on Friday, and heading for a weekend total of $40 to $45 million mark, setting a new record as the biggest opening for a musical film. High School Musical 3: Senior Year, which opened with $42 million in 2008, sets a new record from 'Mamma Mia!, $27.6 million also in 2008, as biggest opening ever for a musical film, and currently holds the record for four years now, and that may be broken by Sunday night. The musical film scores a B-plus CinemaScore.

The teen comedy pic, a Paramount Picture film based on a hit TV series Victorious from Nickelodeon, is directed by Dan Schnider and stars Victoria Justice, Leon Thomas III, Elizabeth Gillies, Ariana Grande, Matt Bennett, Avan Jogia and Daniella Monet. The pic costars Justin Timberlake, Alison Brie and Rihanna.

42, from Legendary and Warner Bros., is proving to be a more powerful hitter than the tracking had indicated. The film, which focuses on the legendary Jackie Robinson, who broke the baseball color barrier when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, appears headed for a $6 million to $7 million Friday and a weekend that could inch above the $20 million mark. If its streak continues, it will surpass the $15 million to $17 million predictions for the film’s opening. PHOTOS: '42' L.A. Premiere: Hollywood Celebrates the Legend of Jackie Robinson Meanwhile, Dimension’s Scary Movie 5, which observers had expected could contest the top spot with 42, is having a harder time getting on base. Preliminary estimates put its Friday number at around $5..5 million, which could result in a potential $13 million-plus weekend. One key to the movie’s performance will be the number of teens that show up for its evening performances. Financed by Legendary Pictures, whose CEO Thomas Tull personally produced the project, the PG-13-rated 42 was written and directed by Brian Helgeland (A Knight’s Tale), and stars Chadwick Boseman as Robinson and Harrison Ford as the Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey. Scary Movie is the latest installment in the long-running franchise from The Weinstein Co.’s Dimension label that dates back to 2000. Malcolm D. Lee, who last directed 2008’s Soul Men, handled the directing reins of the PG-13 comedy, and the cast is something of a rogue’s gallery of boldface names including Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Simon Rex and Ashley Tisdale'.