They should really release a photo book for this movie. Anyone know if they will? It seems like the kind of movie they'd release one for, what with its gorgeous visuals and all. They should also release one with all of the FYC ads from The Hollywood Reporter .

I´ll give it a shot

This wekeend: 4.1M
Next (4-day): 3.5
24-26: 2.5
Oscar weekend: 2

Total weekends: $12.1M

4.5
4.5 (4-day)
3
2.5

And Android really overpredicted!

So far:

1st: $4M
4-day: $3.8M (3-day $3.2M)
24-26: $2.3M

So far, I think I am closer

Including this weekend, I'm estimating Brokeback will make another $18m by Oscar night, putting its total just under $81m

2/10-12: $4.6m (-23%)
2/13-16: $1.9m
2/17-20: $4.3m (-7%)
2/21-23: $1.1m
2/24-26: $2.6m (-27% from 3-day)
2/27-3/2: $1.3
3/3-3/5: $2.4m (-8%)

It's after nomination gross will have been just under $30m. I had predicted around a $37m boost.

Nice.

We will have to see how many theaters it loses this week, but for the first time the PTA is in the zone that usually indicates large drops. I wonder whether it will help with the theater situation to have the oscars coming up.

Where did you see postcards for it? I'd love to have some, but I wouldn't want to send them out . I'd save them.

They´re here! My bad, forgot to quote them...

I don't think the looming Oscars will help BBM. There's been so much buzz already that anyone who wanted to see it sans Oscar win has seen it. The only demographic that hasn't seen BBM is those who will go if BBM wins the Oscar. And, it has to win. If BBM loses BP, they may as well pull it from theatres on Monday.

But I predict strong (not record-breaking) rental numbers.

Brokeback' Star Slammed by Former School

Brokeback Mountain actress Michelle Williams has been disowned by her former school because of her role in the controversial gay cowboy romance. Williams, who attended exclusive Santa Fe Christian School in San Diego, California, has been blasted by the school's headmaster as "offensive" for acting the long-suffering wife of a homosexual ranch hand, played by Heath Ledger. Jim Hopson has branded the Oscar nominee a poor role model, and hopes his education establishment won't be linked to the film's themes. He tells the San Diego Union Tribune, "We don't want to have anything to do with her in relation to that movie. Michelle doesn't represent the values of this institution. Brokeback Mountain basically promotes a lifestyle we don't promote."

http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-03-03/#2

http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-03-03/#2

A children's book about two male penguins that raise a baby penguin has been moved to the nonfiction section of two public library branches after parents complained it had homosexual undertones.

The illustrated book, "And Tango Makes Three," is based on a true story of two male penguins, named Roy and Silo, who adopted an abandoned egg at New York City's Central Park Zoo in the late 1990s.

The book, written by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, was moved from the children's section at two Rolling Hills' Consolidated Library's branches in Savannah and St. Joseph in northwest Missouri.

Two parents had expressed concerns about the book last month.

Barbara Read, the Rolling Hills' director, said experts report that adoptions aren't unusual in the penguin world. However, moving the book to the nonfiction section would decrease the chance that it would "blindside" readers, she said.

I hope their kids grow up to be gay.

Then they'll sue the school for having the book that made their kids gay .