Catching Fire Expected to Take Box Office Over Frozen as Oldboy Tanks

According to box office analysis at both Deadline and Box Office Mojo, Disney's latest animated film Frozen is expected to take the #2 spot at the domestic box office this weekend, beaten out by last week's #1, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. While Frozen is performing as strongly or better than expected, fellow new release Oldboy is getting its butt kicked, mostly because it's getting a fairly limited release. The Spike Lee-directed remake of the Korean cult hit has managed only a 44% on Rotten Tomatoes amid reports that the studio made Lee cut a significant amount of the movie and neither they nor he ended up satisfied with the final product. Box Office Mojo is expecting Catching Fire to generate a $62 million weekend and a $95 million over the five-day holiday weekend, while they're calling for a $44.7 million/$63 million opening bow for Frozen. Deadline expects it to be even bigger, and even closer, with the five-day weekends bringing in $100 million and $85 million, respectively. Thor: The Dark World should make a little over $15 million for the five days, a big step down from its opening weekends but still pretty solid for a fourth-week release.