Godzilla: King of the Monsters Early Box Office Predictions

G. H. (Gman)
AdminGodzillaApr-05-2019 3:19 PMBox Office Pro is the first website to give a long range prediction of Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
Its forecast for the movie includes a range of $40-60 million for the opening weekend. They predict the movie will open with $46 million and finish with a domestic total of $110 million.
If those numbers seem a little low, I tend to agree. I predict these forecasts will go up as we get closer to the release date and tickets finally go on sale.
I find it difficult to believe the industry can accurately calculate these numbers without ticket pre-sales, but I suppose they've found a model to predict this somewhere. In any case, Box Office Pro's long range forecasts haven't been more (or less) off than $10 million this year. So they have some modicum of viability.
For comparison Godzilla '14 opened with $93.1 million for the weekend and finished with a domestic total of $200.6 million. ($529 million world wide total.)
Kong: Skull Island opened with $61 million for the weekend and finished with a domestic total of $168 million. ($566.6 million world wide total.)
I have a hard time believing Godzilla: King of the Monsters will open with less than Skull Island, but the fact is May is a very aggressive month for movies. We'll see how things change in the coming weeks.