{"id":18418,"date":"2013-06-22T19:07:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T19:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=18418"},"modified":"2013-06-22T19:07:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T19:07:24","slug":"monsters-university-world-war-z-start-huge-at-box-office-man-of-steel-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/06\/22\/monsters-university-world-war-z-start-huge-at-box-office-man-of-steel-down\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Monsters University,&#8221; &#8220;World War Z&#8221; Start Huge at Box Office, &#8220;Man of Steel&#8221; Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While talk of three separate films topping $50 million this weekend appears for naught, two of the films in the discussion will greatly exceed that threshold.<\/p>\n<p>Based on Friday&#8217;s results, new releases &#8220;Monsters University&#8221; and &#8220;World War Z&#8221; should have no issue annihilating the $50 million mark.  They earned $30.5 million and $25 million, respectively, in their debut dates, which gives them considerable breathing room in approaching that $50 million number.<\/p>\n<p>At press time, the feeling is that &#8220;Monsters&#8221; could flirt with $80 million this weekend and score the second-highest debut for a Pixar film after &#8220;Toy Story 3.&#8221;  &#8220;Z&#8221; should land in the low-to-mid $60 millions.<\/p>\n<p>Down 71% from last Friday&#8217;s bow, &#8220;Man of Steel,&#8221; however, might have kissed its chances of earning $50 million this weekend goodbye.  The film, which dominated the box office last week, earned only $12.7 million this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Still enough to claim third place, &#8220;Man of Steel&#8221; led &#8220;This is the End&#8221; ($4.1 million) and &#8220;Now You See Me&#8221; ($2.5 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[409,434,433],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Monsters University,&quot; &quot;World War Z&quot; Start Huge at Box Office, &quot;Man of Steel&quot; Down<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"While talk of three separate films topping $50 million this weekend appears for naught, two of the films in the discussion will greatly exceed that\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/06\/22\/monsters-university-world-war-z-start-huge-at-box-office-man-of-steel-down\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Monsters University,&quot; &quot;World War Z&quot; Start Huge at Box Office, &quot;Man of Steel&quot; Down\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While talk of three separate films topping $50 million this weekend appears for naught, two of the films in the discussion will greatly exceed that\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/06\/22\/monsters-university-world-war-z-start-huge-at-box-office-man-of-steel-down\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-06-22T19:07:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/06\/22\/monsters-university-world-war-z-start-huge-at-box-office-man-of-steel-down\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/06\/22\/monsters-university-world-war-z-start-huge-at-box-office-man-of-steel-down\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"Monsters University,\\\" \\\"World War Z\\\" Start Huge at Box Office, \\\"Man of Steel\\\" Down\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-06-22T19:07:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-06-22T19:07:24+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"While talk of three separate films topping $50 million this weekend appears for naught, two of the films in the discussion will greatly exceed that\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/06\/22\/monsters-university-world-war-z-start-huge-at-box-office-man-of-steel-down\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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