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http://boxofficemojo.com/counts/chart/?yr=2006&wk=21&p=.htm

A solid count, though I know many will be thinking anything less than 4000 is disappointing.

What the hell? It's not disappointing that it's less than 4,000, but it's less than X2: X-Men United.

I wonder if it pulling a low theater count, but a huge print count...

Well, while I agree that this is disappointing, I think there is a fair explanation.

When X2 came out, there way pretty much NOTHING in theatres.

Now there are over the Hedge, M:I-3 and The Da Vinci Code...

Ehhh, this is really disappointing, as Zingaling said.

With the so-so reviews, and some hesitance due to Ratner, and other things including this, perhaps MTC's tracking of $95 million for the 4-day will be true.

PEACE, Mike.

Who in the bloody world except Harry Knowles and his band of internet geeks is going to skip this because of Brett Ratner?

well atleast we can look forward to an insane psa.

sith only opened in 3660, or something along those lines i believe.

I don't think people will skip this because of Ratner. I just think the whole picture isn't looking as great as it could, which might confirm the tracking. Who knows.

And $95 million 4-day is nothing to scoff at, but I know people here will paint that as disappointing.

PEACE, Mike.

You're exactly right. $95 million for the 4 day would be amazing for this and that's around what I am expecting. As usual everyone's expectations are way higher than they should be and are just setting themselves up for a disappointment.

Gee, why would our expectations be high? Could it be because the last film was half an hour longer and opened on a non-holiday weekend with $85 million?

Im very suprised, i thought this would get 3,900+ easy.

Wow, that's disappointing and shocking as hell. It's still a great count, but still. I think the explanation, like Lecter said, is the amount of huge movies out right now. X2 kicked off the summer, with nothing else substantial in theatres.

And by the way, after thinking about it for a bit I think there's a great chance the 4-day comes in under 100 mil. Part of the reason MI:3 did so much worse than MI:2 as we all pointed out, was the fact that MI:2 was the most hyped of its summer, while this year MI:3 was another blockbuster slightly overshadowed by the monsters like Da Vinci, Pirates, and so on. X2 when released had a similar situation as MI:2, the hype for that was HUGE. Kicking off the summer, that and The Matrix Reloaded were the two biggest hype monsters of the summer, easily. X3 is a lot more scattered among the pile this time, like MI:3. We're just coming off Da Vinci, which was all and all a bigger release than this.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm not feeling more buzz for X3 than Da Vinci, I'm just not. Among my circle of friends, the talk has been wayyy more centered around DVC, and that's an adult thriller rather than a teen superhero movie. X3 has barely came up, there's shrugs when the ads come. If Da Vinci can only get 77 mil, I have no idea how where these 95 mil+ predictions are comng from for X3.

I actually think a MI:3 or T3 drop might be possible. X2 was bigger than MI:2, so it'd still probably translate to 70 mil or so, which is still great. The reactions here would be priceless though, deafening.

Its in around 50 theaters less than X-2. Still I dont put much wager in theater counts since its in over 3500 theaters anyway. It should still break or close in on X-2's 3 day because of its shorter runtime. The last time a movie was in 4000 theaters disappointed so it doesnt change much in my prediction

I'm still surprised, even with the competiton taking up space. The screen count so far is quite excellent, though, and the running time adds a lot of showtimes, but it's just a little surprising that it didn't even match X2's count.

Its the theater owners loss for not adding the other extra 300. Let them keep those measly empty theater seats for MI3, Poseidon and See No Evil. They just dont want a G U A R A N T E E winner like X-3 to be shown in their theater

The two biggest 3-day openings of all time have occured in less theaters than X3 is in.

Guys come on, this is not gonna be shaky. 90% of the audience doesnt buy into the internet bullshit. The marketing has been solid, and this is easily the event film of the year on the busiest weekend of the year. The theater count just leads to a higher PSA and more sold out viewings.

PS. Has anyone ever thought that movies are so frontloaded nowadays because there is no reason why you can't on opening weekend anymore. Less theaters means that more people have to come out over the next few weeks. I know I'm reaching, but seriously this will make around 115-125 4day.

not surprising, told the pansies at BOM nothin was breakin the record this year and I've only got three films to go before my victory.

I suppose it is true of most of them. Myself included.

a $95 million 4-day would be ABOVE my expectations, especially with this theater count...
I just have a really hard time seeing this movie's first 3 days grossing a lot more than Da Vinci Code's first 3 days, even if that means it'd be a lower opening gross than X-2. But then again, M:I 3 was substantiallylower than M:I 2 too.

Damn, now the movie is gonna be super hard to find in theaters.

I think this should be able to get a $24,000 pta... which would result in about a $90 mil 3 day

Especially being shorter/more run times than the 2nd one... which got a little over $22,000 pta