Ice Age: The Meltdown - $34,500,000 -49.3% $116,428,000
The Benchwarmers - $20,500,000 NEW $20,500,000
Take the Lead - $12,775,000 NEW $12,775,000
Inside Man - $9,174,000 -40.6% $66,056,000
Lucky Number Slevin - $7,130,000 NEW $7,130,000
Failure to Launch - $4,107,000 -36.5% $79,121,000
ATL - $3,750,000 -67.5% $17,255,000
V for Vendetta - $3,365,000 -46.5% $62,257,000
Phat Girlz - $3,100,000 NEW $3,100,000
Thank You for Smoking - $2,400,000 +49.4% $6,284,000
Stay Alive - $2,156,000 -52.2% $20,440,000
She's the Man - $2,149,000 -51.5% $29,790,000
Slither - $1,528,000 -60.6% $6,478,000
Friends with Money - $637,000 NEW (PTA: $22,750) $637,000
Brick - $196,000 +134.5% $314,000

Poor Slither...

Great for my derby.

decent for Friends With Money.

WHERE IS BASIC INSTINCT 2?!?!?!

Not too bad for Ice Age II. It'll stabilize next weekend and still make over $200 million total, but over $220 million is unlikely at this point. Still, excellent.

Also, nice surprise for The Benchwarmers. I never would have expected this film of all movies to make $20 million opening weekend. But, it's a nice little comedy so I'm glad it did well. Should make around $60 million total.

Ice Age 2 had the 2nd worst 2nd weekend drop for all animated films to pass $100 m. Toy Story 2 had the biggest 2nd weekend drop with close to 52%, but that had holidays. Any way you look at it, its a great 10 day total, but mixed word of mouth is coming into play. It really didn't have competition this weekend where it could have held onto more of its audience, which happens even for the big animated sequels. Last week's Friday-weekend multiplier also wasn't the best sign. Yes, its the sequel factor, but even for animated films, the sequel factor isn't as bad as it has been playing out w/ Ice Age 2. It could come close to getting under a 3 multiplier. I wonder how Ice Age 3 will do after this...

But regardless, its at a great total, but its rapid erosion is a bit troubling....even if it is a sequel.

10 13 Thank You for Smoking FoxS $2,400,000 +49.4% 300 +174 $8,000 $6,284,000 - 4

Was hoping for 10,000 pta, but these are still very good numbers. Better expand north of 500 next weekend if it wants to keep momentum going.

- N Friends with Money SPC $637,000 - 28 - $22,750 $637,000 - 1

Actually, for 28 theatres, that's really good. I wasn't expecting that. Thre's been weak promotion too. I didn't even know it was coming out this weekend.

- 38 Brick Focus $196,000 +134.5% 21 +19 $9,333 $314,000 -

Not very impressive hold. I feel like this should have opened on 800 theatres and then ran with it. It missing the suburban teen audiences that would love it and drive its numbers up.

- 66 The Devil and Daniel Johnston SPC $33,000 +42.3% 12 +7 $2,750 $68,600 -

I want to see this, but its going to have an incredibly short run.

Great for Inside Man. It already overtook V for Vendetta on Saturday.

Fantastic total for ICE AGE 2, harsh, expected drop.
Brilliant for BENCHWARMERS, i had it at around $18M.
TAKE THE LEAD did solid.

Phat Girlz and Slevin, weak.

Hills passes $40M So deserving.

Nice weekend....

Very impressive for Thank You For Smoking. IA2 I think shows that CGI is now like everything else - it too has front loaded sequals. The rest of last weeks openers pretty muched tanked on round 2, looks like IA2 is the only one to keep the drop under 60%. Given the R rating and venue count, et al, I think Slevin shows a reasonably nice opening. Everything else seems meh, but better than last year.

BENCHWARMERS did better than expected. I doubt it's going to have very good legs though.

TAKE THE LEAD had a softer debut but should have decent legs since WOM is really positive.

Hopefully SLEVIN stays above 7 Million with the actuals.

THANK YOU FOR SMOKING did good but they are crazy to put it in 1,000+ theaters next weekend. They are getting antsy. They should stick with 600+ like they were originally planning.

I'm surprised SLITHER dropped so much. It looks like it will slither to 10 Million if it's lucky. How unfortunate. Normally I would say it will do much better on DVD because that's usually the case, but it's cursed with being from Universal so it won't do so hot there either.

FRIENDS WITH MONEY did really well, which isn't surprising. I'm hoping it eventually expands to my theater since it seems great and I loved Lovely & Amazing.

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is just $30,000 away from 83 Million. It should get there soon but I'm just antsy to have it cross that amount.

I wish TRANSAMERICA could get to 10 Million. For now I'm just hoping to see it pass 9 Million though.

ON A CLEAR DAY did disappointing. It looked like it could be a sleeper hit.

Great for Benchwarmers, I'm surprised it grossed that much , I saw it Friday afternoon in a theater with 5 other people.

Mojo has an estimate for it now.

16 10 Basic Instinct 2 Sony $1,000,000 -68.8%

Basic Instinct 2 drops 69% in its second weekend.

How appropriate.

Eh, some boring weekend,huh?

As for Inside Man, maybe it'll do Along Came Polly numbers. Either it'll fall short of 90m or 95m.

IA2's drop is not as shocking as everyone thought it ought to be, although we live beyond or below our expectations. Should make 200m.

Slither and BI2's drops and numbers were as I expected, but a little bit surprising.

Take the Lead and Benchwarmers were below my expectations of their performances, though I expect their qualities to express some moral preachiness to cover up their flaws. Remember HITCH, starring Will Smith, and a bunch of teen movies? Or Dirty Dancing or other dance movies? Anyway, Benchwarmers should make $65m or $70m total

Did anyone notice that HP4 passed $290m on Tuesday?

V for Vendetta should pass either Kill Bill V.1 or V.2

Thank You For Smoking should make $15m or above while the distributors should slow things down

The rest is not worth mentioning

IA2, Sunday was larger than friday... Save the planet... .. . .

Benchwarmers make a great opening. i'm glad Ice Age 2 makes a good hold. the numbers were nice for this weekend.

Variety on the indies of this weekend:



Wide release for Friends with Money on April 21.

They are expanding to over 1,000 theaters next weekend. Very good strategy if you ask me.



Yeah, I agree the number is wonderful. And same here, I didn't sense high awareness before the weekend.