Friday B.O.: 'Real Steel' punches up $25 mil

'Real Steel'Early Friday box office returns indicate that Shawn Levy's "Real Steel" will hit a minimum of $25 million a few days ago, which makes it the very first new wide-release to win the domestic B.O. per month. Pic, allocated at north of $110 million, is forecasted to earn between $9 and $11 million for Friday, making B.O. experts peg the film within the mid to high $20 million range. Some B.O. viewers state that the pic will probably take advantage of person to person buzz and family auds on Saturday. Second place will probably visit George Clooney's "Ides of March," which B.O. viewers say will earn between $3.5 and $4 million Friday, using it pace to gross around $11 million for that weekend. Meanwhile "Dolphin Tale," which won last weekend in the sophomore sesh, is once more holding over well, having a forecasted take with a minimum of $ten million because of its 3rd frame -- a 29% drop from last weekend. Using the three dimensional re-discharge of "The Lion King" gobbling up admissions since its Sept. 16 bow, the final original pic to consider to begin with was "Contagion," which opened up Sept. 9. Among other holdovers, "50/50" is forecasted to earn a $4.5 million to $5.5 million for in the second week, while "Courageous" is anticipated to decrease about 50% from last weekend and earn near $4.5 million. B.O. experts expect "Dream House" and "What's Your Number" to decrease about 50% to 55% for that weekend, projecting $4 million and $2.5 million cumes, correspondingly. Contact Rachel Abrams at Rachel.Abrams@variety.com