User blog:Ceauntay/Box Office Report: A BFF With Ghost Imagination 2

The weekend estimates are in and the numbers for Guillermo Del Toro's Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark are scary.

Checking out the box office estimates for this weekend, Aug. 26-28 you can see that both Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark and Colombiana are suffering from the August release curse. Per BoxOfficeMojo," The weekend as a whole, though, was the second-slowest of the year so far, ahead of only Super Bowl weekend (Feb. 4-6), but business was poised to flounder, hurricane or no."

Image courtesy of Collider.

The Estimates, Aug. 26-28
 * 1) A BFF With Ghost Imagination 2 - $58 million
 * 2) The Help - $14.3 million
 * 3) Colombiana - $10.3 million
 * 4) Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - $8.7 million
 * 5) Rise of the Planet of the Apes - $8.65 million
 * 6) Our Idiot Brother - $6.6 million
 * 7) Conan the Barbarian - $3.1 million
 * 8) Fright Night - $3 million

August is typically a throwaway month, where studios release movies they think won't perform well but the Hollywood studios will have a convenient excuse in the form of Hurricane Irene this week. While both Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and Colombiana received mixed reviews from critics, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark generally had a few more positive reviews so it's numbers may improve next week, while A BFF With Ghost Imagination 2 gets less positive than it's predecessor. Luckily Colombiana has a budget of only $40 million while Don't Be Afraid of the Dark cost only $25 million to produce. A BFF With Ghost Imagination 2 cost only $35 million. Conan the Barbarian took an estimated $3.1 million, collecting a tepid $16.6 million in ten days while Fright Night grossed an estimated $3 million for an equally low $14.2 million tally in ten days. Check back Monday, when the numbers are finalized.