[table][row]Rank[col]Movie[col]Studio[col]Count[col]Change[row]1[col]Madagascar[col]DreamWorks[col]3,929[col]-213[row]2[col]The Longest Yard[col]Paramount[col]3,654[col]20[row]3[col]Mr. and Mrs. Smith[col]Fox[col]3,424[col]NEW[row]4[col]Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith[col]Fox[col]3,322[col]-328[row]5[col]Cinderella Man[col]Universal[col]2,820[col]8[row]6[col]The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl (3D)[col]Dimension[col]2,655[col]NEW[row]7[col]The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants[col]Warner Bros.[col]2,583[col]0[row]8[col]Monster-in-Law[col]New Line[col]1,949[col]-1,076[row]9[col]The Honeymooners[col]Paramount[col]1,912[col]NEW[row]10[col]Lords of Dogtown[col]Sony[col]1,865[col]0[row]11[col]High Tension[col]Lions Gate[col]1,323[col]NEW[row]12[col]Crash[col]Lions Gate[col]908[col]-411[row]13[col]Kicking and Screaming[col]Universal[col]750[col]-1,077[row]14[col]Sahara[col]Paramount[col]381[col]109[row]15[col]The Interpreter[col]Universal[col]360[col]-326[row]16[col]Unleashed[col]Focus[col]245[col]-330[row]17[col]Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous[col]Warner Bros.[col]203[col]-81[row]18[col]House of Wax[col]Warner Bros.[col]202[col]-336[row]19[col]Mad Hot Ballroom[col]Paramount Classics[col]126[col]30[row]20[col]Sin City[col]Dimension[col]68[col]-23[row]21[col]Hostage[col]Miramax[col]64[col]-37[row]22[col]Parineeta[col]UTV Communications[col]50[col]-[row]23[col]The Upside of Anger[col]New Line[col]39[col]-26[row]24[col]Howl's Moving Castle[col]Buena Vista[col]36[col]-[/table]

Nice for Smith given all the screens held by the top few films right now.

Typical low count for urban-oriented Honeymooners. I don't see this one passing $15 million for the weekend, but it could hold stronger during the weekdays.

Nice for Mr. and Mrs. Smith, must be a number of theaters lost by Star Wars and the other older holdovers. I wonder if Crash will also significantly loose theaters.

Great for Mr. and Mrs. Smith! I can't wait to see this.

That's a great number for MR. AND MRS. SMITH. I was expecting a little bit of a bigger number for SHARK BOY but it's still good. THE HONEYMOONERS is low, like all urban comedies, it should do okay. I'm kind of surprised the estimate for HIGH TENSION didn't go up to 1500+, oh well.

Mr and Mrs. Smith has all the necessities to be a $40 million opener now.

Yep, it's a great theater count for Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It only needs a $11,600 PTA for $40 million.

It still could. Those are only the actuals for SMITH and HONEYMOONERS so far, SHARK BOY and HIGH TENSION hasn't had their actuals announced yet.

Ooooh, i'm really looking forward to Mr and Mrs Smith.....can't wait to see it this weekend.

Hopefully it does well this weekend.....(Over $35,000,000)

The Honeymooners might not even make $15 million in its entire run. I agree with the other part of your post, though.

From BOG:

The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D 2,655
High Tension 1,323

I don't see Sharkboy cracking $13M at this point.

We always seem to have a somewhat high-profile family film that bombs in June (Two Brothers last year, Rugrats Go Wild in 2003), and I think it will be this movie for 2005.

I really have no confidence in any of the openers not named Smith. They all could/will bomb in my opinion.

Heh. Lions Gate should still make money off of High Tension.

I think High Tension's screen count is going to hurt the legs (the low count for Shaun of the Dead helped it. If it had over 1500 screens, it would've taken a sharp fall in its second weekend) of the film. Kind of like Kung Fu Hustle.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/counts/cha ... =23&p=.htm

Next weekend:

Batman Begins 3,800+
The Perfect Man 2,000
Herbie: Fully Loaded 800 sneaks on 6/19
Howl's Moving Castle 200 +164 (good strategy IMO)

Ech, Herbie sneaks.

Less than I would've thought for The Perfect Man, although it will probably get higher eventually.

Bad drop for Monster-in-Law, but it will probably have a hold around 45%.

Which movie will get the gross from the Herbie sneaks?

Has Disney (or its subsidiaries) released anything since Hitchhikers Guide?

Speaking of which, that movie was in 300 theatres last week, but I don't see it on the list. Did it get pulled completely? I was hoping it could limp the final 700k to make $50m. For god's sake MC2 is still in 200+theatres!

Decent for HIGH TENSION should be good for around $4,000,000.

Howls Moving Castle (which goes wider next weekend. If not, then maybe Shark boy, since it was part Disney by the time it was made.

Hello all. I'm new to the boards and look forward to many enjoyable conversations regarding film and other media related topics.

Regarding theater counts, Lions Gate should have done all they could to get High Tension in at least 1,500+ venues. I am also somewhat surprised by the low count for The Honeymooners considering its based on a fairly well-known TV series that was also the basis for The Flintstones, among others.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith should have no problem approaching or perhaps crossing 40 million with that high of a count. It looks like a fun movie and is Doug Liman's follow-up to the smart and entertaining 'Bourne Identity.'