At AMC Mercado 20, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants will have 2 screens (8 showings) on Wednesday. Friday unknown yet.

My theater also has 2 screens for Sisterhood of Traveling Pants (but only 7 showtimes). Let's see how it does.

I'm eager to hear how many screens and showings for Cinderella Man.

On Friday at AMC Mercado 20, each new opener will have 2 screens.

2,529 theaters for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants on Wednesday.

Studio (20 screens) Grand Rapids< MI

Sisterhood 1 screen wed 5 shows

Cinderella Man 2 screens 8 shows
Lords/Dogtown 1

Crash 1
Interpreter 1
Kicking and Screaming 1
Longest Yard 3
Madagascar 5 matinees/4 at night
Kingdom of Heaven shares night with 5th Mad
MOnster in Law 1
Star Wars III 3
Unleashed 1

New
Cinderella Man - 2 screens (8 showings)
Lords of Dogtown - 2 screens (9 showings)
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - 2 screens (9 showings)

Holdovers
Crash - 1 screen (6 showings)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/House of Wax - 1 screen (2 showings each)
The Interpreter/Kingdom of Heaven - 1 screen (2 showings each)
Kicking & Screaming - 1 screen (5 showings)
The Longest Yard - 3 screens (14 showings)
Madagascar - 4 screens (20 showings)
Monster-in-Law - 1 screen (6 showings)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - 4 screens (16 showings)
Unleashed - 1 screen (5 showings)

New

Cinderella Man - 2 screens (8 showings)
The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants - 1 screen (5 showings)
Lords Of Dogtown - 1 screen (5 showings)

Holdovers

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith - 4 screens (16 showings)
Madagascar - 3 screens (16 showings)
The Longest Yard - 3 screens (16 showings)
Kicking And Screaming - 1 screen (5 showings)
Monster-In-Law - 1 screen (5 showings)

At my theater.

Cinderella Man - 3 screens (11 showtimes)
Lords of Dogtown - 3 screens (13 showtimes)
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - 2 screens (9 showtimes).

Star Wars will drop to 6 screens, Madagascar will stay on 5, and Longest Yard is on 4. (that's 23 of the 30 screens, wow).

Are you surprised by the 3 screens for Dogtown. Actually I'm not, since the mall where my theater is has a very notorious Skateboarding rink, and we have a very heavy population of skateboarders, so we expect it to do very well at this theaters, if not anywhere else. Plus, most of the people who come at our theater are young males, so if this movie doesn't do well here, then don't expect to do well anywhere.

At the Tigard 11, all three of the openers get one screen, The Longest Yard keeps two including the giant screen, Madagascar keeps it two and Star Wars goes from three screens to two. Otherwise, only Crash and Monster-in-Law remain of the pre-Star Wars openers, on the two smallest screens. I'll update with the Lloyd Center when info comes in. Also, it may not be much use but here's my Layer Cake crowd report.

I saw Layer Cake at the Fox Tower 10, 8:00 PM. About 30 people in a 200 screener. Trailers all got mostly silence but included:
November
Night Watch
Mad Hot Ballroom (Did I get the title right?)
2046

As for the movie, it certainly wasn't as good as Snatch or Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, but on it's one was still well done. I have to say though, it lacked the dark humor and grittiness of the aforementioned two films, and Matthew Vaughn certainly isn't half the director Guy Ritchie is. Good performances though, particularly Daniel Craig. B-

Theater Openings

Cinderella Man Universal 2,800
Lords of Dogtown Sony 1,800
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (on Wed.) Warner Bros. 2,529

From HSX:

Entirely Too Early Biz Report: Sissy Pants in the LBC
-- notfabio, Jun 1, 14:21
So far, with two shows down (granted both in the 10-11am hour) an amazing, gobstopping, total of
5 people.

Advance sales for the entire weekend at this point?
One purchase of 3 tickets.

Granted this does not have to do much to adjust up and with school in session it won't really do anything until after 4pm, but I think the hopes and dreams of a hopeful Sisterhood are all about this weekend.

My theater has two screens for SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS (8 shows), two for CINDERELLA MAN (6 shows), and one for LORDS OF DOGTOWN (4 shows).


MovieDude, how was the NIGHT WATCH trailer? I've heard it looks great, and it definitely does sound good.

Very weird, but you may like it. I'll see it, but I'm still not sure what I think of it. The audience didn't seem to like it much from the conversations I heard afterwards though.

Anyways, at the Lloyd Center 18, Cinderella Man and Lords of Dogtown both get two screens while Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants gets one. Star Wars goes down to three screens, Longest Yard keeps two but gets a third for the late shows (splitting it with Hitchhiker's Guide I'd guess), and Madagascar gets three. Of the two giant screens, one goes to The Longest Yard, the other to Cinderella Man.

My 18-screen theater in Albany, NY

OPENERS

Cinderella Man (3 screens, 11 shows)
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2 screens on WED/THU, 1.5 screens from FRI, 7 shows)
Lords of Dogtown (1 screen, 5 shows)

HOLDOVERS

Madagascar (5 screens during the day, 4 at night, 21 shows, lost 1/2 screen)
SW3: ROTS (4 screens during the day, 5 at night, 18 shows, lost 2.5 screens)
Longest Yard (2 screens during the day, 3 at night, 13 shows, no change)
Monster in Law (1 screen, 5 shows, no change)
Crash (3 shows)
Kicking and Screaming (2 shows)

LOSING

Unleashed (on TUE)
Hitchhiker's Guide (on TUE)
House of Wax (on TUE)
nothing on THU

THE GAME OF THEIR LIVES
4:30pm at Regal Hamburg Pavilion 16
5% full

Trailers:

Stealth, Herbie: Fully Loaded, Dreamer, Fantastic Four, The Dukes Of Hazzard

My Thoughts:


Since this film opened here in Lexington this weekend for some unknown reason, I decided to go and check it out. I had heard about it before, because I know Peter Newman (one of the producers). Overall, this one was semi-decent thanks to good performances from Gerard Butler and Wes Bentley, but there were many flaws. The script was pretty mediocre and was filled with cheesy and laughable dialogue. In what are supposed to be some of the film's most stirring moments my brother and I were practically rolling in the aisles. The direction is great overall and is filled with good visuals. My rating is pretty close to a 5/10 ( C ), but I'll stick with this one for now. Overall it was "OK" entertainment and I might buy it once its released on DVD if I spot it for a cheap price. 6/10 (C+)

Do you think I'd like it Thompson? I thought it sounded alright.

If you enjoyed MIRACLE you might. I gave that the same rating and had similar problems with it.

MIRACLE was lame! It was sickeningly patriotic and dull. GAME OF THEIR LIVES sounded OK, mostly because it had a couple of decent cast members. I'm sure it would be better than MIRACLE.

Quickie Matinee Report.

Sisterhood of Traveling Pants (150 seater and 175 seater)
12:45 - 8 people.
2:05 - 10 people.
3:45 - cancelled.
4:50 - 41 people (because of the cancelled show).
(Even compared to Wednesday, this was not that big of an increase. I don't see anymore than 2.5 million Friday).

Lords of Dogtown (300 seater, 600 seater, 200 seater)
12:20 - 25 people.
1:20 - 15 people.
2:15 - 15 people.
3:15 - 27 people.
4:15 - 25 people.
(Also below what we were hoping for. Hopefully it does much better at night, if not, the 2 million seems to be the upper range for this).

Cinderella Man (300, 400, and 250 seater)
12:15 - 33 people.
1;15 - 34 people.
2:35 - 55 people.
3:35 - 57 people.
(This was definetely the clear favorite this weekend, looks like we will definetely get sold out shows in the night).

As for Holdovers, Madagascar held on fairly well, but Star Wars and Longest Yard fell hard from last Friday's matinee. All in all, it was another slow Friday matinee, I was sent home 75 minutes early.

I might see The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants this weekend. Other movies I might see include Lords of Dogtown and The Longest Yard.

So Cinderella Man was beating Madagascar?

Mike, you'd definitely like GAME OF THEIR LIVES more, although I think you'd give it the same rating as I did.

It was a blah day at my theater...

Cinderella Man on 3 big screens, averaged only 1/3 full per show, so I don't see much more than 6~7 million, although I can definitely see a hefty increase for tomorrow. I think these kind of movies do that.

Lords of Dogtown, was 2/3 full for 2 evening shows in a medium theater, so, I don't know, eh, I guess it COULD pull 2 million but I wouldn't be suprised if it dipped below 1.5 million.

Pass me the Pants actually suprised my theater because we had it on only one and a half screens (sharing with Crash), so it sold out the 6:45 and 9:35 shows. I guess my manager was counting on this because they had the 10:15 show only fill up about half way in another medium size theater. I think Sisterhood has a shot at 3~4 million based on business here.

Other movies seemed to nosedive today, although Star Wars seems to be chugging along at about 80% capacity in medium theaters.

Longest Yard almost sold out the 8:40 show in a medium size, but there was no phenomenal business for this movie either.

Madagascar seemed to be the most consistent movie of the day, probably will have the least drop.

Very boring Friday, look forward to dissappointing numbers all-around :???:

Yes it did. It was number one at our theater.