David only started tracking Yahoo reviews in early 2004 when he noticed how huge the first day number was for Passion and later on Mean Girls. Then we began the practice of consistent hourly update for the opening day in late May or June. (check page 3 of this thread).

Before 2004, Yahoo was using a different voting system, where one could vote many times (if I remembered correctly), so all the current votes for pre-2004 movies came from later, especially after the recommendation system was in place.

Okay, thanks. I see that 50 First Dates was 167.

2006 Movies Yahoo Current Total Reviews

01. X-Men: The Last Stand - 44,438
02. The Da Vinci Code - 39,048
03. Ice Age: The Meltdown - 33,669
04. V For Vendetta - 31,641
05. Scary Movie 4 - 29,353
06. Underworld: Evolution - 27,864
07. Mission: Impossible III - 24,651
08. The Pink Panther - 21,966
09. Date Movie - 19,897
10. She's the Man - 18,432
11. When a Stranger Calls - 18,420
12. Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion - 18,328
13. Big Momma's 2 - 17,745
14. Inside Man - 17,163
15. Hostel - 16,481
16. The Benchwarmers - 16,275
17. Over the Hedge - 14,990
18. Silent Hill - 14,531
19. Eight Below - 14,379
20. Final Destination 3 14,200
21. Hoodwinked - 13,239
22. Failure to Launch - 12,108
23. Cars - 11,180
24. RV - 11,038
25. The Hills Have Eyes - 10,968
26. Poseidon - 10,812
27. United 93 - 10,394
28. Glory Road - 10,315
29. ATL - 9,747
30. Last Holiday - 9,171
31. Stick It - 9,029
32. Take the Lead - 8,581
33. Nanny McPhee - 8,134
34. Stay Alive - 7,914
35. Curious George - 7,847
36. Firewall - 7,527
37. 16 Blocks - 7,502
38. Ultraviolet - 7,423
39. Aquamarine - 7,169
40. The Omen - 7,028
41. Thank You For Smoking - 6,786
42. Just My Luck - 6,287
43. Lucky Number Slevin - 6,271
44. The Shaggy Dog - 6,246
45. Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector - 5,920
46. Akeelah and the Bee - 5,847
47. Nacho Libre - 5,238
48. An American Haunting - 5,161
49. The Wild - 5,156
50. See No Evil - 5,025
51. Annapolis - 4,979
52. The Sentinel - 4,965
53. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift - 4,888
54. End of the Spear - 4,396
55. Dave Chappelle's Block Party - 3,780
56. Something New - 3,381
57. Grandma's Boy - 3,217
58. Goal! The Dream Begins - 3,184
59. BloodRayne - 2,912
60. Phat Girlz - 2,907
61. American Dreamz - 2,902
62. Basic Instinct 2 - 2,845
63. Running Scared - 2,842
64. Hoot - 2,817
65. The Lake House - 2,799
66. Slither - 2,794
67. Doogal - 2,543
68. Freedomand - 2,376
69. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties - 1,588
70. A Prairie Home Companion - 25

Can you send me a PM when you do that? I'm interested in doing a little more in depth data mining (tracking, genre, actors, marketing budget, etc.).

I remember that I first started following it with Bad Boys II and Seabiscuit; Underworld was the first one I followed on opening day; and the first one I posted about was The Passion. I actually had a thread for a month after the Passion, but everyone was skeptical since it wasn't accurate at that point. Well, ok, I actually had some terrible projections. I kept tracking it, and at some point I felt that I trusted it somewhat myself rather then just having hope for it. After Mean Girls you were around and it took off.



The current voting system began on July 7 2003. That was actually 2 days before the original Pirates opened. Of course we don't have opening day Yahoo numbers, but it was the very first movie to have reviews from the day it was released.

Do you all think "Hostage" is a decent comparison for "Waist Deep" tomorrow? It's probably the best match I could find from the list on Page 1.

ATL should be a good comparison. Somehow I haven't added Four Brothers to the table. "Urban" films tend to have high ratios, and with a small theater count, I don't expect a ratio lower than 300.

Four Brothers had a 257.57 ratio with around 1800 reviews.

Hustle and Flow is the best match, in my opinion. July release, 1,000 theaters, same genre, and sort of similar competition (2nd weekend Wedding Crashers).

Updated the tables on the first page. There is still a gap between August and November of last year. Should be able to get to that soon. Everything with 600 reviews or more is in the first table, and the rest is in the second table. Will need to split to more in the future.

Damn, I shouldn't try to edit when I'm drunk.

Anyway I had 200 for WD and 80 for Click.

I have 250-280 (Hustle & Flow is a good suggestion; still think the ratio will be higher) and 80-100.

Click 1, +1, B+
Waist Deep 11, +11, B+

waiste a deeps mauling!

3 written for Click. none for WD actually.

Click 8, +7, B (from B+)
Waist Deep 12, +1, B+

Ok, with early numbers I think Click will win the weekend.

Stay tune for further updates such as whether Click will reach 20m!

Click 15, +7, B
Waist Deep 13, +1, B+

I'm going with 95 for Click and 260 for Waist Deep.

Click 18, +3, B
Waist Deep 13, +0, B+

12 written for Click.

Click 22, +4, B
Waist Deep 13, +0, B+

Click 22, +0, B
Waist Deep 13, +0, B+

No 10:30 EST update, but Click has 18 written reviews and is moderately to significantly clogged.

Click 150, +128, B- (down from a B-)
Waist Deep 53, +40, B (down from a B+)

Unclogged.

Click 192, +42, B-
Waist Deep 65, +12, B+ (up from a B)

thats better, its nice to see Waist Deep getting OWNed, hopefully the film will flop and open to less than 4m

Click 211, +19, B (up from B-)
Waist Deep 70, +5, B+