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'Footloose''The Thing''The Large Year'Paramount's "Footloose" remake may not be capable of dance away while using weekend's domestic B.O. crown despite positive individual to individual from advanced tests. Holdover "Real Steel" and sci-fi horror prequel "The Main One Factor" may even vie for your top place. "Footloose," which launches today at 3,549 Stateside locations, will most likely bow around $15 million, according to pre-weekend monitoring services. That doesn't leave much wiggle room for your dance pic, since DreamWorks' "Real Steel" will most likely drop some 45%-50% within the second outing, which might put it with- in hailing distance of "Footloose.""Footloose." Universal's "The Main One Factor" prequel influences mix too, even though studio has a bit more modest anticipation with an opening inside the low double-amounts. 20th Century Fox's adult-skewed bird-watching comedy "The Big Year" will find it hard to fly, B.O. experts say, with dismal prospects inside the $3 million-$5 million range. Overseas, "Real Steel" should keep its No. 1 position, growing to areas like Columbia as well as the U.K. Last weekend, the film bowed with $22.6 000 0000, ample to knock "The Smurfs" in the eight-week roost atop the world box office. In your area, the weekend will need a considerable hit versus. a year ago, when "Jackass 3dInch acquired the finest opening ever in October with $50 million. That's considered a b - -.To. anomaly, so most bizzers are focusing on last weekend just like a better comparison. To be able to build individual to individual (and elevated by passionate test tests), Componen situated free country wide sneaks of "Footloose" on Sept. 30, additionally to tests for cheerleading camps and youth groups. Componen mentioned the advanced tests were proficient at reinforcing interest among the pic's core demos, mainly teenage ladies and ladies between 30 and 40. But there is not much movement among male auds, meaning "Footloose" continues to be mainly a dual-quadrant pic. The first "Footloose" increased to become b -.To. sensation in 1984, cuming almost $80 million -- nearly 10 occasions its opening-weekend gross. Par's remake set you back a modest $24 million, with OK overseas prospects to keep the climate light. The film bowed day-and-date with $1.2 million from Nz and australia. Pic develops a couple of days ago for the next five areas, like the U.K., with major areas for instance France, South usa and Russia set to follow along with together with over the following handful of several days. Universal is distribbing "The Main One Factor" overseas for Morgan Creek, that have worldwide rights for the film. "The Main One Factor" -- a prequel to John Carpenter's original 1982 film -- launches a couple of days ago in Oz, France and Taiwan. In your area, there's lots riding round the film's opening perf, especially since Componen launches "Paranormal Activity 3" next weekend. It is not certain whether auds will embrace both photos inside the days just before Halloween. The holiday itself typically isn't a large moviegoing weekend, though Halloween this year falls around the Monday. To check reasons, Universal indicates Screen Gems' "The Stepfather," which bowed this same weekend this past year with $11.6 000 0000 and cumed only $29.millions of in your area. Fox's "The Big Year," allotted inside a reported $28 million, may well be a tough cost the studio: The film follows three passionate bird-audiences who compete to put rare wild wild birds within the U . s . States. Stars Owen Wilson, Jack Black and Steve Martin will attract some filmgoers, even though mainly adult aud may be frustrated by tepid reviews. In limited release, The brand new the new sony Pictures Classics bows Pedro Almodovar's "The Skin Home IsInch at six locations in NY and L.A. Additionally a couple of days ago, Millennium Films' Nicole Kidman-Nicolas Cage thriller "Trespass" launches at 10 Stateside engagements, while Anchor Bay's "Texas Killing Fields," starring Mike Worthington and Jessica Chastain, opens at three. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com