New

Sin City 3,230
Beauty Shop 2,659
Fever Pitch 450 (sneaks Fri, Sat, Sun)

Expanding
The Upside of Anger 1,111 +944
Melinda and Melinda 197 +102
Downfall 168 +40
Millions 128 +51

Steady
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous 3,233
Guess Who 3,147

Declining
Robots 3,026 -405
The Pacifier 2,851 -251
Hitch 1,859 -374
Ice Princess 1,802 -699
Hostage 1,728 -249
Million Dollar Baby 1,405 -305
Be Cool 1,202 -681
Constantine 610 -395
Diary of a Mad Black Woman 330 -472
Meet the Fockers 304 -46
Sideways 304 -109
The Aviator 289 -116
Bride and Prejudice 192 -69
Finding Neverland 152 -52

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/counts/cha ... =13&p=.htm

That's up from the previously expected 2,350. Close to Barbershop 2's theater count.

This is definitely a good sign. It has a shot at $20 million if this theatre count holds.

Nice...i rekon it will be around 2800-3000 for the weekend.

However, i think this is being really over predicted.

I think $14,000,000 (5 day) is in store.

I really want it to do well though.

Can't wait to see this potential gem!


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I don't see this doing too well. But who knows, it's hard to gauge these 'types' of films.

3,230 for Sin City, according to BOG.

Great theatre count for Sin City!

Great for Sin City, wouldnt of expected that many.

Good number. I´d like to see Sin City doing well. But its gone be hard for such a movie.

A high theater count means nothing for this movie. Look at Sky Captain's theater count.

Agreed MG, but it also can't hurt.

It is gonna have to draw that older teen and college crowd to really do well.

Exactly, the totally oposite crowd of Sky Captain, thus the comparison is turd.

For one thing, older folks won't be as keen to see Sin City as they were Sky Captain. Sin City is going to attract teens 18-24. Now how many teens really want to see a black and white movie? It will attract the oddball film lovers.

............ People are oddballs if they wanna see an amazing looking action packed R rated movie? Whats the norm then? Liking Pokemon? Hype has picked up incredibly for the movie, it will most likely make over 20mil this weekend, but I am sticking with my 18mil prediction. Its funny you say more people are attracted to Sky Captain since only 18-24 year olds are interested in Sin City, though you think Sin City will make more then Sky Captain, opening weekend.

What are the Fever Pitch sneaks counting for?

And good expansion for Downfall, once again

Of course not, it's the print counts that matter. Sky Captain only played on 2 screens at my theater, Sin City is on 4 screens.

Anyway, for much of the holdovers, those are lower drops than expected.

Dude, TONS of high schoolers and adults I know really want to see Sin City. Sky Captain's problem was that it only had appeal to older audiences, but marketed itself towards teenagers. The end result was something that looked too weird and out of date for teens, and something that looked like a stupid action movie for adults. It had some of the worst marketing in a LOONG time.

April 8 Estimates
Sahara - 3,000+
Fever Pitch - 3,000

Exactly, too boring looking for kids, too childish for adults. Sin City knows what its market is. Sin City has much bigger hype then Sky Captain.

Yeah, there's been a cast member on the talk show circuit literally every day for over three weeks now, thanks to the huge cast. The reviews are also great, and while the percentage is close to Sky Captains, the good reviews are huge raves, whereas Sky Captains they were more "good but not great" (7.7 vs. 6.9)

That has alot to do with some critics giving it a negative review just because of what the movie is, violent, offensive ( ), and other things of that matter. Alot of the negatives are C+, so basically on the verge of being a positive. Im 100% sure this movie will go off much better with the general public then Sky Captain did.

I would guess Robots

Awesome for Sin City! I thought it would get 3000 tops.

I rekon SIN CITY will pull a $8,700K PTA for a $28,000,000 weekend.

FEVER PITCH will be the highest opener the following weekend.

I honestly think that SIN CITY will be huge. I might be the only one thinking that, but I'm going for a $30+ million weekend. BEAUTY SHOP will have about $15 million this weekend, and have very small drops because of good word of mouth, SIN CITY should also hold up quite nice.

Next week ...

SAHARA - 19 million
FEVER PITCH - 14 million