Right about where I expected. Very solid.

Wow I think thats huge! Will Smith > all

Darling Nikki:

Sources tell me that very early numbers show that Sony Pictures' dramedy Hancock about a troubled superhero made a super-terrific $6.8 million Tuesday night from two evening shows at 3,680 North American theaters before it's official opening today. (To compare, Iron Man took in $5 mil from its Thursday night shows on May before its official Friday May 2nd debut, and Transformers earned $8.8 mil last July 3rd before U.S. Independence Day. And those pics went on to become $300+M blockbusters.)

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/

oh fuck.

Variety confirms $6.7-6.8m last night.

More Darling Nikki:

Holdovers Wall-E from Disney/Pixar made $7.7M from a full day and night of screenings on Tuesday, and Universal's Wanted $4.7M.

Sounds really low to me...

That'd follow 2003, the last time Jul 1 was on Tuesday, pretty closely. Most films dropped 10-20%, and they only needed to face T3.

Daym

$6.8m would be wow. Only Will Smith could take this concept and make it huge like that, 'cause, frankly, it doesn't even look that great.

I don't see how this doesn't make $100m+ five-day.

Way earlier. Shows started at 7:00.

It's a good start. It should end up having a big holiday weekend.

that great? it looks like complete shit. you people (as in everyone that isn't me) disgust me.

If this ended up with 300mill+

They had the 8pm start as well.

Im on Loyal's side. I cant stand the blind love for Smith

But he deserves it.

Except that family films actually increased after decreasing by less than 45% on Monday. If those numbers hold up, Wall-E's not following the trend at all. Not even close.

Bad news is family films took a huge hit on Wednesday despite the absence of a HUGE opener. I have a bad feeling about Wall-E's weekdays, assuming that $7.7 million holds up.

Yeah, that would not be stellar for Wall-E.

Ugh, I like Smith, but this is getting annoying.

SBD:
1. WALL-E DISNEY 3,992 7,620,000 1,909 n/a 87,241,000
2. WANTED UNIVERSAL 3,175 4,603,750 1,450 n/a 66,516,335
3. GET SMART WARNER BROS. 3,915 2,310,000 590 n/a 84,978,000
4. KUNG FU PANDA PARAMOUNT 3,670 1,595,000 435 n/a 184,267,000
5. INCREDIBLE HULK, THE UNIVERSAL 3,349 1,039,225 310 n/a 119,260,785
6. LOVE GURU, THE PARAMOUNT 3,012 600,000 199 n/a 27,303,000
7. INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL PARAMOUNT 2,556 580,000 227 n/a 301,980,000
8. SEX AND THE CITY WARNER BROS. 1,755 560,000 319 n/a 141,917,000
9. HAPPENING, THE 20TH CENTURY FOX 2,483 392,716 158 n/a 60,455,459
10. YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN SONY 2,147 355,000 165 n/a 92,386,000

http://www.showbizdata.com/dailybox.cfm

I love Will Smith as an actor, but like Heston, sometimes he is better than his films, which outside of I Am Legend and MIB is almost always the case

Troublesome.

That is actually pretty shitty. Every theater started playing them at 7 PM. and it only mustered 7 million? But given the shitty wom, its probably a good thing.

Outside of your opinion, what evidence is there that this movie has bad WOM?

Crowd reports here and at mojo. I think that the audience that woulda been out last night, the teenage young adult one, is its best sghot for good wom, and if the word "decent" is being use,d with that age group, it is gonna be horrible for anybody who expects a real movie.

You're funny when you're biased.

And that is a major ouch for Wall-E. Just OUCH.

Stop making stuff up. I have yet to see an overly negative crowd report and crowd reports are useless for the most part anyway. They're way too biased. A B+ at Yahoo shows decent to good WOM for the movie so far.