Monster-In-Law $23.11m
Kicking & Screaming $20.16m
Unleashed $10.90m
Kingdom of Heaven $9.63m
Crash $7.02m
House of Wax $6.56m
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy $5.05m
The Interpreter $4.59m
XXX: State of the Union $2.13m
Mindhunters $1.91m

From Nielsen EDI.

Kingdom of Heaven is dead.

Hell it even will barely reach the lowest total gross prediction here at WOKJ.

Damn...I figured Monster-in-Law was overestimated to get over $24M, but not by almost a million.

House of Wax's drop is more like 45%....under predicted by about $300,000. Nice.

Nice seeing both major openers staying above $20M. thought Kicking and Screaming might have fallen. And UNLEASHED was slightly underpredicted too.

They actually had the cheek to overpredict MINDHUNTERS....surely not that hard to single handidly COUNT the tickets lol.

Yep, they could easily have counted the tickets for Sunday that hadn't been sold yet.

It was a joke hunni, because it made so little.

Nevermind.

Yawn.

Good Sunday for Unleashed.

W00t! Hitchhiker's guide was underpredicted by a couple of hundred thousand.

$600 million, here we come!

That's a surprsingly good weekend for the top two. I didn't see it coming at all. Congrats to them. Someone let me know when mad Hot Ballroom per theatre average comes in pretty please? [-o<

dolce, this is from Variety...

" In the limited market, Paramount Classics had a scorching debut for doc "Mad Hot Ballroom." Playing two screens in GothamGotham , pic grossed $45,000 over the three-day span, averaging $22,500 per screen. Label co-head David Dinerstein said, "Not only did it play to a specialized audience, but we also saw families." Doc expands to six more markets Friday and the will be on about 45 to 50 screens for the Memorial Day span. "

BOM numbers:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/ch ... =19&p=.htm

Amazing -22.8% Sunday drop for Unleashed. Only it could have avoided facing Sith the upcoming weekend.

Looks like Sahara might top out at about $69 million... Which means that my original 18/69 million prediction was terrifyingly bang on in every single respect!

*pats self on back*

Tip-top job, old bean!

Wow! North of 22,000. Not bad. i thought it would be more judging from the sold out lines, but it was playing at two lesser known theatres that clearly didn't have a lot of screens to squeeze it on to. Probably only had about 5 viewings a day and not big seat capacity. I think it will take a big drop next week when it expands, as there was more interest in it in NYC because its about kids at one of the public schools in here. We'll see. If its lucky it'll hold at 6,000 after expansion.

Holy Girl was underpredicted and held pta of 3,500, but in the scheme of things its now dead. Ah well.

Where the hell is GothamGotham?

I'd say this was a solid weekend. Sure, we're still down from last year, but it could have been a lot worse.

oops...missed one. I have the link to that story posted in the Hollywood Decline thread in this forum. For some reason, when copying and pasting stories from Variety, it shows up with a double use of words sometimes, especially when pasting names like Jennifer Lopez. I have no explanation for why.

Kingdom of Heaven didn't do that bad actually. It only dropped around 50%.
House of Wax held on pretty well too.
Crash held on extremely well.

Both top 2 films opened strong in my opinion (I mean compared to what they were). Two more $20m openers down and another one next week. Even though this year may fall behind last year in total $$$, I think this year will set a new record for $20 million openers.

Compared to how utterly shitty this year has been $69 million is nothing to be ashamed of for Sahara.

And that'll be with just under a 4.0 multiplier, which is absolutely golden for an action movie with subpar reviews.

Oh, and I gotta say, I'm VERY impressed by the 2.92 weekend multiplier that Unleashed pulled off. It gives me a feeling that this is getting VERY strong word of mouth. Both Hero and Cradle 2 The Grave were only able to pull off 2.66 multipliers, and other films like The One did even worse. Were it not for Star Wars, I could've seen a fall slightly above Man on Fire, but instead it should manage to avoid a 60% drop and instead one along the lines of 45-50%.

I'd compare it to Kung Fu Hustle, which had around a 2.9 weekend multiplier. It's going to have bad legs even if it was well-received.

They are very different. Unleashed is much more mainstream than Kung Fu Hustle. As MovieDude reasoned, we should compare it with other Jet Li films, not an art-house foreign language film. If not for Sith, Unleashed will surely have a sub-50% drop, but now we'll never know how good it could've done.

Y'know, one thing that's interesting is that while Kicking and Screaming/Monster-in-Law/Kingdom of Heaven will all be loosing screens, this will be keeping all of it's one screens, so I actually wouldn't be surprised if it were slightly less affected then many other movies could be. House of Wax, xXx, Hitchhikers and plenty of movies will lose tons of screens, but this has to be shown at two weeks at every theater, and won't be split with any either, which could help.

Damn, I was hoping AMITYVILLE HORROR would make it to 70 Million, but 1.6 Million and at 63 Million currently doesn't look like to me it will make 70 Million, but nevertheless, it was still an impressive run.. Now whens the DVD coming out??