I would expect Smiths to have decent legs.

Not a sequel
Appeals more to women than typical action movies do
Ditto with appeals more to adults than your averge action flick.

It should run for a while and not fall off the face of the earth too fast.

Amazing number for Smith and it will see around a 53 mil weekend ahead. I guess the publicity didn't hurt it after all. I'm glad a true action/comedy summer blockbuster is raking it in.

Unless a miracle happens, Sith has no shot at 400 mil unless it gets an IMAX release. Still, a 380 total isn't to shabby :wink: .

Actually, on Box Office Guru, it annouced that the Friday Estimate for High Tension is $650,000.

Agreed. Plus I just think the film will have great word of mouth, and it is a very enjoyable/rewatchable film, in my opinion.

PEACE, Mike

I don't think that's relevant. It's a horror movie in summer, so it should tend to have a frontloaded opening weekend even if the number of people going to see it is very small. I guess we'll find out if I'm right soon enough.

Yay! For Smiths! Well glad that is a fantastic opening! Blockbusteeerr!
Go ANGELINA! :p Wh00t!

:( for High Tension, ack it's all profit anyway.

Are these good numbers for The Hooneymooners?

How much was the budget?

I have to say, I am a bit surprised at HIGH TENSION'S Friday box office number. I figured it could at least pull in $1.5 million because there have been tv spots all over the place! I went to go see it at 7PM last night and there were 12 people there, 7 of those people were with me. I've seen the movie but my friends haven't. They all loved it besides my friend Chris that said it was okay. The audience seemed to like it, there were a boyfriend and girlfriend there and a group of lady senior citizens, I thought they'd walk out but they didn't! MONSTER IN LAW was playing next to HIGH TENSION so I was like to my friend "it would be funny if they thought they were in MONSTER IN LAW!" The film deserves much more than it is recieving, hopefully though it will be a big hit on dvd, I'm sure it will be. Lions Gate should release it in a couple months though, then people that wanted to see it in theaters but didn't get around to it would remember it and people that wanted to wait for dvd will remember it. It was a really great time at the movies, I was happy I finally could see HIGH TENSION on the big screen. I'm seeing it again Tuesday night with another friend. My brother thought it was weird that I was going to see it, he was like "why don't you guys go see something else? You have it on dvd , why can't you just watch it on the tv?" He doesn't understand that HIGH TENSION is a movie you really should see on the big screen. I have a big screen tv and I'm still happy I saw it in the theater. If any of you out there are doubting that you'll like the movie, you should go see it, if you're a fan of horror I'm sure you will like it. Spread the word of HIGH TENSION around to your friends, try to get them interested. I've been doing it for almost a month and it's definetely paying off.