Rank |
Movie Name |
Predicted Gross |
1 |
Spider Man 3 |
$150.0m |
2 |
Disturbia |
$5.1m |
3 |
Lucky You |
$5.0m |
4 |
Fracture |
$3.5m |
5 |
Next |
$3.1m |
6 |
The Invisible |
$2.9m |
7 |
Hot Fuzz |
$2.8m |
8 |
Blades of Glory |
$2.7m |
9 |
Meet the Robinsons |
$2.7m |
10 |
Vacancy |
$1.7m |
Talking Points
- The box office heading into May is as weak as we have seen in years, allowing Spider-Man 3 the opportunity to grab record number of screens all over the country in a completely empty marketplace.
- Adjusted to inflation, the $31,768 PTA that Spider-Man 1 gobbled up would equal to $35,978 today (if we use the estimated average price of $6.58 this year and $5.81 back in 2002)
- The sales of midnight showings are well ahead of the pace for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man´s Chest; it could get $14m on midnight alone and break $60m on the opening day.
- Lucky You attempts to position itself as counter-programming, but Spider-Man 3 attracts all demographics, and its marketing push has been very weak.
- When Spider-Man opened 5 years ago on the same weekend, the holdovers generally fell harder than the previous weekend, with a few suffering over 60% drops; similar patterns should emerge here.
