User blog:Ceauntay/'Best Friends Reunion' May Top Holiday Weekend

Disney's ”Best Friends Reunion” would most likely enjoy it's fantastic Easter weekend earning a strong $45 to $49 million for that weekend.

It's been seven years since the series finale of Disney's original hit series ”Best Friends Forever”, and the characters finally reunites to the big screen. It also spun it's film adaptation in 2010 with ”Best Friends Forever: The Movie”.

With $45 million for ”Best Friends Reunion”, it will have bigger opening than 2008's ”High School Musical 3: Senior Year” ($42 million), 2010's ”Best Friends Forever: The Movie” ($33 million) and 2009's ”Hannah Montana: The Movie” ($32 million).

”Best Friends Reunion” had an impressive opening on Thursday night previews with $5 million from 2,600 theaters. It is opening in 3,614 theaters. It is also closing out what’s been a downbeat March with the North American box office struggling, off 31% for the same month a year ago, according to comScore. That follows a record February that was driven by Disney-Marvel’s “Black Panther.” The year to date as of March 27 is off 4% at $2.71 billion domestically.

Also opening this weekend is Steven Spielberg's “Ready Player One”, which currently earned $12 million on opening day. It is projecting for $50 million for Thursday to Sunday total, including $38 to $42 million total, for a close second place.

The second weekend of Universal-Legendary’s “Pacific Rim Uprising,” the seventh weekend of “Black Panther” and Lionsgate-Roadside’s third weekend of “I Can Only Imagine” will be fighting for second place during the holiday weekend. “Pacific Rim Uprising” has grossed $34.7 million in its first six days, while “Black Panther” has passed the $637 million mark in 41 days, making it the fifth highest-grossing movie ever in the U.S. Faith-based “I can Only Imagine” has taken in an impressive $43 million in its first 13 days.

Two titles with moderate outlooks are opening Friday — Lionsgate’s thriller “Tyler Perry’s Acrimony” and Pure Flix’s’ “God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness.” “Acrimony,” starring Taraji P. Henson as a vengeance-seeking wife, is pegged to launch with $7 million to $11 million at 2,006 venues. Faith-based “A Light in the Darkness” is forecast to finish around $5 million at 1,688 sites.