Yes, I know its early. But I love doing early predictions, and this could be the weekend where Spiderman's record is beaten, so why not start early?

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 4,000

1 POTC 2 $116 m ($29,000 average)
2 Superman $28.32 m -52%
3 The Devil Wears Prada $12.73 m -33%
4 Click $11.97 m -37%
5 Cars $9.45 m -37%

Top 5 total: $178.47 m

This can get intresting.
1. Pirates 2: 102 million
Friday: 37 million
Saturday:38 million +3%
Sunday:27 mllion -29%

2. Superman: 24 million

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - $127 million

Superman will drop around 58-60% to about $25 million. The rest are too early to predict, given that we don't even know their grosses for this weekend.

Saturday..

A. Drop over 5%...
B. Drop hardly anything
C. Stable
D. Rise slightly
E. or jump a lot

pirates-140 million boneeeesssssssssss

I am seeing strong legs or bigger weekdays for this. 3.0 multiplier and 10 million weekdays.

I think i will never perdict over 105 million for a movie.

I like 102 million, its very possibile and i wont be dissapointed.

It will rise as i start to feel the hype up more.

Pirates with the biggest opening weekend of all time? Yes, please.

Which just makes it even more depressing that I have to wait two weeks to see it. Urghhhh. Oh well, it'll probably still be making like $40M in its third weekend so its not like I'm the only one

Pirates 2 - 113 mil
Superman Returns - 18 mil

Devil Wears Prada will hold good.

BJs Predictions:

1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - 154.95m ($38,500 PTA) 4050 theaters
2. Superman Returns - 20.0m -58%
3. The Devil Wears Prada - 12.15m -40%
4. Click - 10.40m -50%
5. Cars - 8.85m -45%
6. The Lake House - 2.85m -46%
7. Nacho Libre - 2.25m -60%
8. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kiltties - 2.05m -38%
9. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift - 1.50m -62%
10. The Break-Up - 1.45m -55%
11. Waist Deep - 1.10m -65%
12. X-Men: The Last Stand: 1.05m -52%

Top 12 total: 218.50m

4 straight weeks of 55% drops.

POTC 2 - 164m

SR - Down 61%

Everything else - Who cares?

I can just see it open with 225m.

Or, I can at least imagine it.

Damn it! If that happens, I'm gonna cry so loud, you'd be able to hear it. That's a good thing.

$164 million would be very close to every single screen sold out all shows, all day, for 3 days.

How many screens are you talking about here?

9k?

Theater count hasn't been finalized, so screen count isn't out either.

Was just making the point that there is definitely an upper limit as to how high the gross can go.

12k screens I'd say. With 4.5 showtimes a day and 250 seats per screen (probably higher actually) you can have 13m+ tickets per day or over 80m in sales. That's without midnight (which can add 10m more). Plus, there are interlocks if demand is high enough.

SM had only 7,000 screens and did nearly 50m adjusted in a day (sat) without midnights. The limit is well above 60m a day.

spiderman 1 had midnights

Not on Saturday.

ah hah.

Yeah the upper limit is probably well above 200m, I was just using a little hyperbole to say that there IS a realistic ceiling, and that ceiling probably is around 140-150.

Personally, my initial gut prediction is 124m. Return of the Sith would've done around 130m if it had opened on a Friday. I don't think pre-sales have quite approached that level yet, nor will there be that mega turn out at midnghts.

My calculations have ROTS earning 141m if it opened on a Friday. Much wider audience here though.

POTC 2 - $145 million
Superman - 58-65% drop

1. POTC 2 115 million
2. SR 25.0 million (-60%)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest- $123.5 million
Superman Returns- 50% drop