If those are real estimates, Rocky is much lower then expected.

i.e. generally it's 4.5-5x, but at that time it was still really early, so bumped it up to 6x for national.

This is the partial EDI#'s that generally wind up being 70-80% for the Top 10. CRSGF is from 35. LFIJM is from 4. DRMGL 2.


NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 7,073,325
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS 3,765,849
ROCKY BALBOA 3,179,342
THE GOOD SHEPHERD 2,523,473
WE ARE MARSHALL 2,089,892
CHARLOTTE'S WEB 2,003,294
ERAGON 1,779,601
HAPPY FEET 1,264,798
THE HOLIDAY 1,201,042
THE NATIVITY STORY 1,080,859
APOCALYPTO 728,628
BLOOD DIAMOND 686,620
CASINO ROYALE 634,833
THE SANTA CLAUSE 3:THE ESCAPE 258,467
UNACCOMPANIED MINORS 247,084
DEJA VU 194,676
BORAT 127,582
DECK THE HALLS 112,259
CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER 86,653
THE QUEEN 82,052
VOLVER 58,251
BABEL 49,661
THE HISTORY BOYS 46,738
THE DEPARTED 44,904
DREAMGIRLS 36,675
OPEN SEASON 24,232
STRANGER THAN FICTION 20,863
LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA 19,459
THE GOOD GERMAN 18,875
DEEP SEA 3-D 15,623
LITTLE CHILDREN 13,215
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION 9,614
VENUS 9,614

theres a Fantastic Four 2 trailer?

What was the reaction to The Simpsons trailer and for whoever else saw it in theaters.

Yes, with most prints of NATM...It was however not attatched to the print I saw.

Friday, December 22 - AMC Covina 30
We Are Marshall - 3:05pm
150 Seater - 30 people
Trailers:
Live Free or Die Hard
Freedom Writers
Stomp The Yard
Miss Potter
Bridge to Terabithia
The Astronaut Farmer
Fred Claus
Best Reactions: Umm, none. (Fred Claus did get laughs)

I loved this movie. It wasn't as much of a football movie as I expected but I found myself really engaged in the lives of the townspeople and caring about them.

Night At The Museum - 8:30pm
475 Seater - 60-70%
Trailers:
Spider-Man 3
The Simpsons Movie
Evan Almighty
The Last Mimzy (got a big ol' "WTF?" from me, but it was intriguing)
Ocean's Thirteen
Best reactions: SM3 had silence (good); SM and EA had laughs

Not so great of a movie...pretty lame actually. It had it's funny parts but was generally quite sucky.

Also, I think it is stupid how 20th Century Fox is marketing like crazy that you can see the FF2 trailer with NATM...I've only seen one report where a person saw the trailer with the movie. I should sue.

Believe it or not, there was a smattering of applause halfway through The Simpson Movies' trailer (once it's revealed it is, in fact, The Simpsons Movie) and the "Ready... ready... ready..." hammer gags received quite a few laughs.

Night at the Museum - 12/23/06
7:15pm showing
100% full (350-seat auditorium)

TRAILERS
Transformers (lots of talk)
The Last Mimzy (silent)
Ocean's Thirteen (lots of talk)
Happily N'Ever After (laughs)
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (lots of talk)
The Simpsons Movie (lots of talk)

Not bad at all....hard to believe it came from the director of Cheaper by the Dozen and The Pink Panther. It was definitely a crowd pleaser as there were a ton of laughs throughout the film and clapping at the end.

Only other sellout was The Good Shepherd at 7:00.

quick update for tomorrow (monday xmas day)

advance sales:

Dreamgirls - 1010 !!!! (8pm is already sold out)
** this is by far the most advance tickets for a single day we have sold for a movie even more so than Harry Potter 4, which had more but it was for the whole weekend not just 1 day***

Children of Men - 15
Museum - 20
Shepard - 10
Black Xmas - 4
Happyness - 30
Eragon - 6


gonna be all dreamgirls for us.....

That is freakin' nuts.

It's just strange that Paramount/Dreamworks allocated so little to our locations for 12/25 when we are like the poster children for the sites that will rock for it. We easily could have used a full third screen. I'm guessing they didn't want to sacrifice Charlotte's Web.

Crazy (but not entirely unexpected) advance sales for Dreamgirls.

Is there any chance it could pull a mini (and I stress the word mini) Borat on 850 theaters?

I found three sell-outs for Dreamgirls tomorrow afternoon. Impressive.

Well so much for going to see Dreamgirls tomorrow.

Might catch Children of Men instead.

Pacific's The Grove 14 - 1:15pm, 4:30pm, 7:45pm
AMC Century City 15 - 12:55pm, 4:10pm
The Bridge Cinema de Lux has 19 showtimes total tomorrow. They're expecting a BIG turnout, but no sell-outs yet.

trust me i was really upset that we didnt get 3 prints...i called and had a nice long talk with_____ I was told with only 16 screens there was to much "high grossing" product we had to keep and from what I was told Charlotte can NOT be canceled for any interlocks period...

so we are stuck in a hard place with no outs for a huge day and possible #1 in the country

Dang...Dreamgirls is going to do really, really well tomorrow.

its going to be one of those days.... heres to hoping they all sell out before noon so we can just post signs to come back another day

Could Dreamgirls be #1 Christmas even with only 850 theaters?

Yeah, I'll have to check it out ... next year (literally )

It would have to do over $15,000 per theater and I highly doubt that. NATM will be #1.

Then again, like Borat, I'm sure it's only in markets where the PTA is expected to be great. But yeah, I doubt it'll top Museum, which should make around $10M.

I expect Museum to be closer to $11 or $12, and there is almost no way, absolutely no way, that Dreamgirls does that much.

Maybe $6 million (I think that is a major stretch myself)...

Question: Do all theaters not have shows after 8 PM? All Regal and Century theaters in Portland only played movies until then.

The theater I went to (Animosity Reign's theater) had its last showings around 7:30 I think.

Dreamgirls sellouts as of 11:30 AM:

AMC Loews Orpheum (Manhattan): 1:00 pm, 4:00 pm
AMC Loews Lincoln Square (Manhattan): 1:20 pm, 4:25 pm
AMC Magic Johnson Harlem (Manhattan): 1:10 pm, 4:20 pm
AMC Loews Kips Bay (Manhattan): 11:45 am, 2:45 pm
Clearview's Ziegfeld (Manhattan): 1:30 pm, 4:30 pm
The Bridge Cinema De Lux (Philadelphia): 12:40 pm, 3:40 pm, 7:10 pm
Pacific's Grove Stadium (Los Angeles): 1:15 pm, 4:30 pm, 7:15 pm
AMC Century City (Los Angeles): 12:55 pm, 4:10 pm
The Bridge Cinema De Lux (Philadelphia): Noon, 6:45 pm
Crown Village Crossing (Skokie, IL): 1:35 pm, 4:40 pm, 7:40 pm
Regal Gallery Place (Washington DC): 1:20 pm
AMC Hoffman Center (Alexandria VA): 12:15 pm, 1:15 pm, 10:00 pm
AMC Potomac Mills (Woodbridge VA): 1:15 pm