New Releases
3 - Couples Retreat Universal 3,000 - - 1
22 - From Mexico with Love Roadside Attractions 279 - - 1
26 - Good Hair Roadside Attractions 185 - - 1

Expanding
2 2 Zombieland Sony / Columbia 3,038 +2 +0.1% 2
4 3 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Sony / Columbia 2,992 +15 +0.5% 4
5 4 Surrogates Buena Vista 2,992 +41 +1.4% 3
8 8 Toy Story / Toy Story 2 (3D) Buena Vista 1,752 +7 +0.4% 2
9 10 The Invention of Lying Warner Bros. 1,743 +36 +2.1% 2
10 9 Whip It Fox Searchlight 1,738 +17 +1.0% 2
15 16 Capitalism: A Love Story Overture Films 995 +33 +3.4% 3
17 36 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Warner Bros. 505 +315 +165.8% 13
19 24 Bright Star Apparition 380 +63 +19.9% 4
23 34 I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell Freestyle Releasing 266 +56 +26.7% 3
29 56 Paranormal Activity Paramount 159 +126 +381.8% - - - - 3
29 44 The September Issue Roadside Attractions 108 +4 +3.8% 7
31 68 The Boys Are Back Miramax 75 +59 +368.8% 3
34 70 More Than a Game Lionsgate 44 +30 +214.3% 2
39 115 Goodbye Solo Roadside Attractions 3 +2 +200.0% 29
40 122 The Song of Sparrows Regent Releasing 3 +2 +200.0% 27

Declining
1 1 Fame (2009) MGM 3,110 -23 -0.7% 3
6 6 The Informant! Warner Bros. 2,202 -223 -9.2% 4
7 7 Love Happens Universal 1,895 -27 -1.4% 4
11 5 Pandorum Overture Films 1,479 -1,027 -41.0% 3
12 13 Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself Lionsgate 1,313 -256 -16.3% 5
13 14 All About Steve Fox 1,200 -227 -15.9% 6
14 11 Jennifer's Body Fox 1,005 -637 -38.8% 4
16 15 Inglourious Basterds Weinstein Company 968 -363 -27.3% 8

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/counts/cha ... =41&p=.htm

Retreat is not actual yet.

Fame only losing 23 theaters?

Where's PA?

Wild Things is estimated at 3500+ theaters next week. Nice!

Wild Things taking Cloudy's IMAX venues will hurt it.

October 16 Estimates
Where the Wild Things Are - 3,500+
Law Abiding Citizen - 2,700+
The Stepfather - 2,700

Great for all openers actually. Watch for Law Abiding Citizen becoming Overture's biggest film ever.

According to their official website, it will be adding 163 theaters to it's total, so close to 200 theatres this weekend

http://www.paranormalactivity-movie.com/theaters.html

BOM updated PA's count to 159.

Hmm, in that case I see around $3 million this weekend.

I'm thinking $4.5 to 5m.

I'm not sure it'll play that well in all pre-evening showings actually...

Nice for PA!

Are they even advertising Bright Star anywhere but online? You'd think they'd have some TV spots for a movie in that many theaters. I really want to see it, but my theater still didn't get it.

With its current PTA I'll doubt it'll ever go much wider than 400 theatres...

Fame will be the film with the highest number of theaters, but is only looking at a $3m weekend; is that some kind of record?

Well, I'm a bit surprised they added as many as they did this weekend.

They may add re-expand it during Oscar season though.

And I don't get it either. I guess it's because there's so little new stuff. Watch out for Fame to drop 1,100+ theatres next week.

It's a record for this year. Let me check previous years. Incidentally Fame already broke the record last weekend for this year for lowest gross in highest th ct.

Fame should have lowest gross this weekend for a theater count high since 9/29/00 when The Watcher grossed 2.28m in wk 4 in a weekend high 2,636 theaters. That's assuming that Fame beats that gross this weekend, which is not exactly a lock.

Before that it was 9/15/95 when Mortal Kombat grossed 2.26m in wk 5 in 2077 theaters. Again it will be close.

Before that 11/5/93 when Fatal Instinct grossed 2.20m in wk 2 in 1886 theaters.

Before that 4/16/93 when TMNT III grossed 2.03 in wk 5 in 2042 theaters.

Before that 10/25/91 when Ernest Scared Stupid grossed 1.64m in wk 3 in 1746 theaters. Awesome.

Before that 2/9/90 when Steel Magnolias grossed 1.61m in wk 13 in 1328 theaters.

Before that 5/1/87 when The Aristocats (Re-issue) grossed 1.42m in wk 4 in 1405 theaters.

Finally before that 2/10/84 when Hot Dog... The Movie grossed 1.09 in wk 5 in 916 theaters.

Of course this says nothing about inflation adjusted record lows. In that regard it looks like Fame is indeed the record holder.

159! Nice for PA. Excited to see how it will perform. Here's hoping for Top 10!

Nice for Stepfather, i was expecting 2,500.

The 2700 count + PG-13 rating and tonnes of advertising should push it to at least $10,000,000.

I don't see this pulling a JB, SR or WO.

Paranormal will almost certainly make the top 10, if Blair Witch is even remotely a good indicator. It will be VERY interesting to see though how the expansion into daytime compares to the late night only showings. I think honestly it would have been kind of cool if they could/would have done after-dark showings only for the whole run.

So, um, Couples Retreat got exactly 3,000?

Look like it.