Estimates for
Saturday, July, 2, 2005 Title Daily Total
WAR OF THE WORLDS 24.6 84.0
BATMAN BEGINS 6.6 148.3
MR. AND MRS SMITH 4.0 140.3
BEWITCHED 3.6 37.1
HERBIE: FULLY LOADED 3.0 32.3
MADAGASCAR 2.0 169.4
REBOUND 1.9 3.6
STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH 1.5 364.1
LONGEST YARD THE 1.1 146.4
LAND OF THE DEAD 1.0 15.

That's better! \:D/

The Saturday increase is low for all movies which is normal for a Saturday during the 4th of July weekend.

BOM and Showbizdata are probably having a "taste great less filling" yelling contest with each other

Looks that way.

acually this is kind of abnormal, back in 94 the films acually experienced better saturday increases than they did the wknd before over the 4th of July wknd :???: kind of weird considering the films were all so affected by WOTW :???:

Aherm, Live 8
Over 2 billion people stayed in to watch it. A sizable amount - likely Americans.

Funnily enough the sun trusted a news reporters mistake to print that 5 BILLION PEOPLE WATCHED IT, which is of course bollocks.
It reached 5 billion viewers, and roughly half of them watched it.

BJ, there is some impact from Live8 and early fireworks shows held on Saturday and Sunday by some communities, which is a more recent trend.

If this holds, Batman Begins had a great Saturday, regardless if its Friday is 5.3 or 4.5. 17-18M for the 3-day weekend. Rebound and Land of the Dead still killed me, even though I thought I went reasonably low on them. ](*,)

I like these numbers a lot better, at least with these numbers, WOTW will top 70 mil 3 day. \:D/

holly cow, whee was this taking place at, and why have I never hurd about till today

You're not alone. I don't know what it is either so it couldn't have been THAT big...

It has only been all over the internet and news for months now.

It is huge.

Like I said Live8 doesnt have that big of an impact here in America except to some portion of the college crowd.

I saw a little bit of it on TV yesterday but I don't think it had any effect on the box office here in the US. I can't think of anyone who would sit inside the house for eight hours straight to watch a concert. I mean if people planned on a seeing a movie yesterday, the concert was on all day so it wasn't like they were going to the show if they a 2 hr movie.

damnit some films better increase today

BOM has WOTW at 22.7m ( 5.6% increase )

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=d ... worlds.htm

Land of the Dead passes it's budget.
But has a mammoth 2nd weekend drop.

that number has been out all day now.

I don't understand the consistency of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith". Does it have good WOM??? The movie wasn't that great... :???:

Obviously it does. I didn't like it much myself.

WOM is phenomenal for the film. It is as good as or better the Batman Begins which is a good reason why its legs have been so strong.

Also it's the most female friendly of the major blockbusters.

Low Sith.

[table][row color=#FFCC00]1[col color=#FFCC00]War of the Worlds[col color=#FFCC00]$24.645.000[col color=#FFCC00]14,63%[col color=#FFCC00]-[col color=#FFCC00]$6.306[col color=#FFCC00]-[col color=#FFCC00]$81.827.000[row]2[col]Batman Begins[col]$6.582.500[col]45,79%[col]-38,28%[col]$1.748[col]-36,75%[col]$146.558.500[row]3[col]Mr. and Mrs. Smith[col]$3.955.500[col]24,19%[col]-41,23%[col]$1.325[col]-35,70%[col]$140.499.500[row]4[col]Bewitched[col]$3.571.500[col]15,58%[col]-50,46%[col]$1.120[col]-50,67%[col]$36.167.500[row]5[col]Herbie: Fully Loaded[col]$2.957.000[col]4,86%[col]-39,93%[col]$840[col]-39,93%[col]$32.109.000[row]6[col]Madagascar[col]$1.970.000[col]6,78%[col]-32,56%[col]$780[col]-21,30%[col]$169.239.000[row color=#FFCC00]7[col color=#FFCC00]Rebound[col color=#FFCC00]$1.892.500[col color=#FFCC00]11,32%[col color=#FFCC00]-[col color=#FFCC00]$768[col color=#FFCC00]-[col color=#FFCC00]$3.592.500[row]8[col]Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith[col]$1.499.500[col]25,48%[col]-39,77%[col]$852[col]-18,81%[col]$364.165.500[row]9[col]The Longest Yard[col]$1.098.500[col]16,86%[col]-50,54%[col]$614[col]-30,50%[col]$146.726.500[row]10[col]Land of the Dead[col]$978.000[col]15,06%[col]-70,81%[col]$434[col]-70,87%[col]$15.323.000[/table]

^^^

If those estimates hold up, great increase for Batman, pretty crappy for the rest.