[table]
[row]1 MADAGASCAR[col]$2,856,223[col]2.9%[col]$690[col]$111,233,533
[row]2 STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH[col]$2,286,110[col]-1.1%[col]$626[col]$317,257,697
[row]3 THE LONGEST YARD[col]$2,089,915[col]-3.9%[col]$575[col]$104,606,083
[row]4 CINDERELLA MAN[col]$1,546,555[col]-5.1%[col]$550[col]$24,913,065
[row]5 THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS[col]$1,152,298[col]2.1%[col]$446[col]$18,021,209
[row]6 MONSTER-IN-LAW[col]$695,000 (estimate)[col]--[col]$230[col]$73,850,787
[row]7 LORDS OF DOGTOWN[col]$419,540[col]-7%[col]$225[col]$7,536,338
[row]8 CRASH[col]$362,801[col]-7.4%[col]$275[col]$42,423,089
[row]9 KICKING AND SCREAMING[col]$291,985[col]-0.1%[col]$160[col]$48,798,140
[row]10 THE INTERPRETER[col]$99,325[col]-3.5%[col]$145[col]$70,793,190
[/table]

As I suspected, Madagascar and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants look like they may be on their way to drops near 30% this weekend.

I'm starting to worry about Cinderella Man.

Terrible for Crash. Unless it has a strong friday increase, it's weekend is going be lower than I expected and predicted.

Lords of Dogtown, as many people have said on previous days, is dying a horrible, horrible death.

PEACE, Mike

Hopefully ROTS has 40% or less drop weekend. [-o<

Yeah Cinderella Man isn't holding up as well as previous Summer drama's including The Terminal. Very nice increases for Madagascar and Sisterhood of Traveling Pants they should hold nicely this weekend. Also a nice hold by Revenge of the Sith it should be at about $330 million after the weekend.

Yes, hopefully ROTS can have a 40% drop but jeez, dropping every day this week even if it Was by just 1-2% isn't that great.

Sisterhood rose this entire week. That's a pretty good sign for its legs, imo.

No, it won't. I know it looks bad on paper, but consider the increases. 90% on Friday, 40% on Saturday, -30% on Sunday. That pegs it at $2.33m for the weekend. 28.7% decrease. Bad in '05?!

Mike, Crash is actually performing like a mini-Moulin Rouge.

Oh, I guess you're right. Still, I predicted $2.5 million.

PEACE, Mike

That's still a 90%. :razz:

I think the Friday increase won't be that big considering it's losing 30% of its theater. 2.1M is more likely at this point, and that's still a very good hold.

Im saying -33% for Madagascar, and -23% for Sisterhood

Lovely increases for SISTERHOOD and MADAGASCAR.

I rekon SISTERHOOD will end up with nearly $40,000,000.

Sisterhood has increased all throughout the week because schools have slowly been released (not a lot though).

I'm puzzled by Cinderella Man. For all I know the film has great WOM, great reviews and it has the combined star appeal of Crowe and Zellweger. And it's targeted at mature audiences, which generally leads to good legs. So where is the problem? I just don't see it. Hopefully it'll have a small drop this weekend.

wrong time of the year for cinderella man, thats why.

Yep, definitely the wrong time. It's getting lost in all the big movies that are just starting to release and get people's interest. It would have done itself much better releasing during July, when Seabiscuit released.

I don't think it's just the timing that is off for Cinderella Man. I think the subject matter, boxing, turns some people off, particularly in the target audience. And also, the notion of a feel-good, underdog, sports story, based in the Great Depression has a been there, done that feeling following so close behind Seabiscuit.

That's my theory, anyway.