Iron Man Box Office
When the summer blasts off Friday with Iron Man, box-office grosses will start tripling and quadrupling the norm. For now, toke on this: The guy audience this weekend headed to Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, the stoner farce which took in $14.1
Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey believes that Marvel Entertainment’s Iron Man, which hits theaters on May 2, could be directly in the line of fire for GTA. You may recall that last year certain execs in Hollywood did refer to Microsoft’s Halo 3 for pulling away some box office sales.2
There has been some buzz about GTA IV hurting Iron Man’s box office take next weekend. Once you get pulled into one of these games, it is really hard to keep track of what time it is.3
Whether or not Mario Kart Wii and Iron Man are competitors has been a heavily speculated topic among analysts. Last year Janco Partners’ Mike Hickey made headlines for saying Bungie and Microsoft wrecked box office sales for Paramount’s Ben Stiller/Farrelly brothers comedy The Heartbreak Kid.4
Grand Theft Auto IV video game may impact Iron Man’s box office receipts. The game is being released this week, ahead of the opening weekend for Iron Man.5