Coach Carter
Release Date: January 14, 2005
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Thomas Carter
Screenwriter: Mark Schwahn, John Gatins
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Ri’chard, Rob Brown, Ashanti, Debbi Morgan
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for violence, sexual content, language, teen partying and some drug material)
Official Website: http://www.CoachCartermovie.com
Plot Summary: Inspired by a true-life story, "Coach Carter" is an inspirational account of a controversial high school basketball coach, who received both high praise and staunch criticism when he made national news in 1999 for benching his entire undefeated basketball team for poor academic performance.

COACH CARTER SURPRISE NUMBER 1

Coach Carter has become the second film to surprise this year after last week's White Noise. The film opened to $8,274,000 yesterday in only 2,524 theaters. Saturated flicks Elektra in 3,204 theaters and Racing Stripes in 3,185 theaters both opened to under $5m while In Good Company opened to a healthy $4.5m in less than 2,000 theaters. This is good for Paramount who had its top grossing film of 2004 being the disappointing Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and second place of 2004 the surprise teen comedy Mean Girls.

BASKETBALL MOVIES
1. Space Jam - $90,418,342 (11/15/96)
2. White Man Can't Jump - $76,253,806 (3/27/92)
3. Like Mike - $51,432,760 (7/3/02)
4. Eddie - $31,387,164 (5/31/96)
5. Hoosiers - $28,607,524 (11/14/86)
6. Love & Basketball - $27,459,615 (4/21/00)
7. Air Bud - $23,144,499 (8/1/97)
8. Blue Chips - $23,070,663 (2/18/94)
9. He Got Game - $21,567,853 (5/1/98)
10. The Air Up There - $21,011,318 (1/7/94)
11. Above the Rim - $16,192,320 (3/25/94)
12. O - $16,025,437 (8/31/01)
13. The 6th Man - $14,772,788 (3/28/97)
14. Juwanna Mann - $13,670,733 (6/21/02)
15. Sunset Park - $10,163,782 (4/26/96)
16. Celtic Pride - $9,255,027 (4/19/96)
17. Coach Carter - $8,274,000 (1/14/05)
18. Hoop Dreams - $7,830,611 (10/14/94)
19. BASEketball - $7,027,290 (7/31/98)
20. The Basketball Diaries - $2,381,087 (4/21/95)
21. Harvard Man - $56,653 (5/17/02)
22. Soul in the Hole - $30,697 (8/8/97)

MTV FILMS
1. Save the Last Dance - $91,057,006 (1/12/01)
2. Jackass: The Movie - $64,255,312 (10/25/02)
3. Beavis and Butthead Do America - $63,118,386 (12/20/96)
4. Varsity Blues - $52,894,169 (1/15/99)
5. Napoleon Dynamite - $44,494,327 (6/11/04)
6. Orange County - $41,076,327 (1/11/02)
7. The Original Kings of Comedy - $38,182,790 (8/18/00)
8. Crossroads - $37,191,304 (2/15/02)
9. The Fighting Temptations - $30,250,745 (9/19/03)
10. The Wood - $25,059,640 (7/16/99)
11. Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat - $19,184,820 (8/2/02)
12. Dead Man on Campus - $15,064,946 (8/21/98)
13. Election - $14,902,041 (4/23/99)
14. The Perfect Score - $10,391,003 (1/30/04)
15. Coach Carter - $8,274,000 (1/14/05)
16. Tupac: Resurrection - $7,718,961 (11/14/03)
17. 200 Cigarettes - $6,852,450 (2/26/99)
18. Joe's Apartment - $4,619,014 (7/26/96)
19. Better Luck Tomorrow - $3,802,390 (4/11/03)
20. Pootie Tang - $3,313,583 (6/29/01)

Predict what you think Coach Carter will make Today Saturday, January 15, 2005. Predictions are due by Jan. 16 @ 10am Eastern Time.

Coach Carter will not only be the #1 basketball movie and MTV movie, but it will cross $100 million. You heard it hear first! The WOM is excellent, the opening is superb, it's going to make close to $30 million over this long weekend. I see no reason why it can't be #1 in those two charts, let alone cross $100 million.

Saturday - $10.33 million

I think so too, I think that it might pass 100m, if it doesn't it will be at like 94m. Along Came Polly made 28m and made 88m, same release date and that movie didn't even have good wom.

Saturday:

11.55m +40%

:wink:

I predict $10.9 for Coach Carter's Saturday!

SATURDAY PREDICTIONS
BJ - $11.55m
Spiderman2005 - $10.9m
Zingaling - $10.33m

9m

SATURDAY PREDICTIONS
BJ - $11.55m
Spiderman2005 - $10.9m
Zingaling - $10.33m
sako16 - $9m

13.4 Million

SATURDAY PREDICTIONS
neostorm - $13.4m
BJ - $11.55m
Spiderman2005 - $10.9m
Zingaling - $10.33m
sako16 - $9m

LOL Spiderman, i thought that your avatar was of aerosmith

How could you? Aerosmith does "sing" in his concerts :laugh:

LOL, touché =D> LOL

10.3. And yes, it will pass 100 million. Man I'm glad I called this one

SATURDAY PREDICTIONS
neostorm - $13.4m
BJ - $11.55m
Spiderman2005 - $10.9m
Zingaling - $10.33m
MovieDude - $10.3m
sako16 - $9m

This film has potential to be the first $100m dollar movie of 2005. This is coming out of nowhere with most people predicting Hitch to be the first to hit that feat.

It should be a lock for 75 mil. If it has decent holds 100 mil. is not out of the question. This is a true surprise considering the low theater count and a lot of competition for the weekend.

Sat. 10.1 mil.

SATURDAY PREDICTIONS
neostorm - $13.4m
BJ - $11.55m
Spiderman2005 - $10.9m
Zingaling - $10.33m
MovieDude - $10.3m
jb007 - $10.1m
sako16 - $9m

MOVIE POSTER


Source: Yahoo Movies

COACH CARTER PRODUCTION STILLS


Source: Yahoo Movies

WEBSITE PROJECTIONS FOR COACH CARTER

BOX OFFICE PROPHETS
The based-on-a-true story basketball film with Samuel L. Jackson knocks Meet the Fockers out of the top slot with a very good estimated $8.2 million on Friday. Barring an excessively bad internal multiplier, we've got a second straight $20 million opener this month. We'll give Coach Carter a conservative 2.8 multiplier, giving the film a $22.9 million opening.

Weekend Projection: $22.9m (3-day)
Source: Box Office Prophets - http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/column/index.cfm?columnID=8758

BOX OFFICE REPORT
Weekend Projection: $32.0m (4-day)
Source: Box Office Report - http://www.boxofficereport.com/wbon/daily.shtml

REVIEWS FOR COACH CARTER

ROTTEN TOMATOES
Tomatometer Reading: 64%
Rating: FRESH
Fresh: 58
Rotten: 32
Total Reviews: 90
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Cream of Crop: FRESH 63%

METACRITIC
Critics: 58 out of 100 metascore (mixed or average reviews)
- based on 32 reviews
Users: 9.0 out of 10
- based on 3 votes

COMINGSOON.net
Rating: 6 out of 10
View Review Here: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/reviewsnews.php?id=7926