hmm guess its just a southern thing then, since we have had our times posted Ive had at least 10 calls from 4th grade teachers who want to book group showings for thier class and parents cause they are all reading the book...

glad you said something tho or I would have inflated my prediction....good ol south always having to be different :razz:

and no i wasnt being sarcastic, I was basing it all on the numerous phone calls Ive got.....

Because of Winn-Dixie = My Dog Skip

It had a $5.9 opening. Because of Winn-Dixie has direct competition from younger kid movie, Pooh's Heffalump Movie, and other kid movies Are We There Yet and Son of the Mask.

4-day Predictions:
1. Constantine - $33.3 NEW
2. Hitch - $32.5 (-25%)
3. Because of Winn-Dixie - $14.5 NEW
4. Son of the Mask - $9.9 NEW
5. Million Dollar Baby - $6.3 (-15%)
6. Are We There Yet? - $6.2 (-25%)
7. Boogeyman - $6.1 (-40%)
8. Pooh's Heffalump Movie - $4.5 (-23%)
9. The Aviator - $4.1 (-12%)
10. Sideways - $3.9 (-13%)

4 day:

Hitch $29.38 m
Constantine $28.73 m
Son of the Mask $15.58 m
Because of Winn-Dixie $15.18 m
Million Dollar Baby $7.27 m
Are We There Yet? $7.04 m
Boogeyman $5.85 m
Pooh $5.07 m
The Aviator $4.74 m
Sideways $4.58 m
The Wedding Date $3.87 m
Hide and Seek $3.15 m
Meet the Fockers $2.62 m
Ong Bak $0.82 m

To be honest, I didn't know what to predict for Winn-Dixie and Son of the Mask - they could either bomb or surprise...

Final Derby Predictions:

1. Hitch - 30.0m ( -30% )
2. Constantine - 27.0m NEW
3. Because of Winn-Dixie - 12.2m NEW
4. Son of the Mask - 8.5m NEW
5. Million Dollar Baby - 8.5m ( +14% )
6. Are We There Yet? - 7.5m ( -9% )
7. Boogeyman - 6.2m ( -39% )
8. Pooh's Heffalump Movie - 5.0m ( -14% )
9. The Aviator - 4.5m ( -4% )
10. Sideways - 4.2m ( -6% )

The Sandlot, A Little Princess and The Secret Garden also didn't open in almost 3200 theatres. Winn-Dixie doesn't have to make very much per theatre to make $10 million for the weekend and if it is a Southern thing, theatres down there could be heavily skewed pushing the average up. (Heck, even Racing Stripes which looked horrible averaged almost $4000 per theatre) Unlike Son of the Mask, there's absolutely no cross-audience between Constantine and Winn-Dixie either. I agree with those who think Winn-Dixie may surprise...the plain and simple truth is that you don't get that many theatres if there isn't demand/interest.

Worst case scenario for Winn Dixie this weekend is a $9,500,000 3 day.

Which isn't bad at all.

Winn Dixie should finish with a surprising $30,000,000-$33,000,000.

Everyone is underpredicting Boogeyman and Are We There Yet again.

Boogeyman
Thur: $0.46 (+6%)
Fri: $1.57 (+245%)
Sat: $2.38 (+51%)
Sun: $1.95 (-18%)
Mon: $0.80 (-59%)

3-Day: $5.9
4-Day: $6.7

Are We There Yet?
Thur: $0.32 (+15%)
Fri: $1.18 (+270%)
Sat: $2.47 (+110%)
Sun: $2.22 (-10%)
Mon: $1.67 (-25%)

3-Day: $5.9
4-Day: $7.5

1. Hitch - $28.0m
2. Constantine - $25.0m
3. Because of Winn-Dixie - $8.1m
4. Son of the Mask - $8.1m
5. Million Dollar Baby - $7.3m
6. Are We There Yet? - $7.1m
7. Boogeyman - $6.5m
8. Pooh's Heffalump Movie - $5.0m
9. The Aviator - $4.7m
10. Sideways - $4.4m

4-Day Weekend:

1. Hitch - $30.8 million
2. Constantine - $29.8 million
3. Son of the Mask - $11.5 million
4. Because of Winn Dixie - $10.6 million
5. Million Dollar Baby - $7.0 million
6. Are We There Yet? - $6.8 million
7. Boogeyman - $6.2 million
8. Pooh's Heffalump Movie - $4.5 million
9. Sideways - $4.4 million
10. The Aviator - $4.4 million
11. The Wedding Date - $3.6 million
12. Hide and Seek - $3.3 million
13. Meet the Fockers - $2.9 million
14. Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior - $.929 million

I forgot to predict in the damn derby. ](*,)

4-Day Weekend:

1. Constantine - 36.0
2. Hitch - 31.5
3. Because of Winn Dixie - 14.0
4. Son of the Mask - 8.0
5. Million Dollar Baby - 7.5
6. Are We There Yet? - 6.2
7. Boogeyman - 6.0
8. Pooh's Heffalump Movie - 6.0
9. Sideways - 4.5
10. The Aviator - 4.5

1. Constantine - 34.5 million
2. Hitch - 30.8 million
3. Because of Winn Dixie - 14.7 million
4. Son of the Mask - $9.8 million
5. Million Dollar Baby - $7.2 million
6. Are We There Yet? - $6.9 million
7. Boogeyman - $6 million
8. The Aviator - $4.7 million
9. Sideways - $4.4 million
10. Pooh's Heffalump Movie - $4.4 million

Predictions are here: http://www.worldofkj.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=148812#148812

your predictions dont exsist :razz:

as for me

1. Constantine - 32.1 million
2. Hitch - 30.2 million
3. Because of Winn Dixie - 13.5 million
4. Son of the Mask - $12.2 million (shoot me now)
5. Million Dollar Baby - $7.8 million
6. Are We There Yet? - $6.4 million
7. Boogeyman - $6 million
8. The Aviator - $4.9 million
9. Sideways - $4.9 million
10. Pooh's Heffalump Movie - $4.3 million

Ive been tryin to look for something differnet between everyone here as most everyone is predicting around the same thing (excpet for my idiot prediction of Son of Mask of 12+ )

I think you are the only one who increased Pooh, I find that interesting, and would make me go hmm if it happened, good luck to ya

I'm using Tigger as the comparison. It was released the weekend before President's Day also and had almost the exact weekday drops so far (with Valentine also falls on Monday), and using its multiplier based on Wednesday's number, I got 6.4M and went a little conservative with 6.0M, but this is the movie I'm trying to nail on and be the break-or-make for me.

hmm interesting I like that idea, I used Tigger to try to come up with Pooh last week based on PTA and it screwed me....guess i was so upset I forgot all about looking back at Tigger again for this week.

speaking of make me or break me..i hope to god I get lucky as hell on my mask prediction.... I dont know what I was thinking honestly, i was so sleepy when I made my predictions I really cant tell you how I came up with my 12m+ ](*,)

Look like only Brandon agrees with me on Pooh, although we disagree on a lot of other movies. This should be an interesting weekend.

I as well missed the derby. We'll see whether that turns out to be a good thing or a bad thing for me, hehe.

Hitch - $27.0 million
Constantine - $24.0 million
Because of Winn-Dixie - $12.7 million
Son of the Mask - $8.5 million
Are We There Yet? - $7.4 million
Million Dollar Baby - $6.5 million
Pooh's Heffalump Movie - $5.6 million
Boogeyman - $5.0 million
The Aviator - $4.3 million
The Wedding Date - $4.0 million
Sideways - $3.9 million

PEACE, Mike

I can certainly see the logic behind your prediction. I went with 5.1m though because I'm expecting the new competition to have an effect.

No he's not, I predicted 6 million too, look at my predictions.

I predicted 6m as well

to be expected from BJ though

:wink:

I think this can be unstickied now