Atlas Shrugged numbers for Friday - $683,000 with $2277 bux per theater showing.
The big opener was RIO at 10 million with $2666 per theater.
Scream 4 pulled $8,000,000 with $2,421 per theater.
On a per theater basis, AS opened at number three. Whether that would scale up for more theaters is unknowable, but that's a respectable pull.
By studio style projections (VERY ACCURATE) you drop twenty odd percent for your Saturday and Sunday, and you get:
$1,775,800 for opening weekend, give or take, obviously.
Not horrible.
Sustainable? Can't say. Usually second week is half of first week*, unless you get a wider release. Doing $2277 per theater with a 300 theater opening is pretty close to buying a bigger release. Can't say yet.
We'll see how close I am on Monday.
*That means that if nothing changes next week, theater wise, they'll make $887,900ish
<<<Doesn't talk movies from the business end very often because he knows it's boring to most people, but knows the fuckin' biz yo.