From Nielsen:

1. Are We There Yet? 18.58
2. Coach Carter 10.55
3. Meet the Fockers 9.68
4. In Good Company 7.99
5. Racing Stripes 6.82
6. Assault On Precinct 13 6.50
7. White Noise 4.99
8. The Aviator 4.84
9. The Phantom of the Opera 4.56
10. Elektra 3.96

Pretty much all overestimated except for The Aviator and Elektra.

wow. im screwed even more for my derby.

82.95% for me

The snowstorm clearly had a huge effect on some movies. I think Coach Carter, Meet the Fockers and In Good Company would've all collected nearly $2M more on a normal weekend.

BOM numbers are up: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/charts

BTW, I'm not surprised about the numbers and feel apathy for top 10 films of last wknd since I didn't feel an anticipation to see January films. But why do some or most people fear snowstorm while the BO performance is all but a little mediocre?

Uh, wait, what...?

I think most people are saying the snowstorms *caused* the mediocre box office.

That's because they blamed the natural or unnatural weather for the letdown of this month's BO.

I said "fear"! what i mean is that it depends on each individual's reaction to any sorts of weather.

You may blame the weather (even the blizzard storm) for January's mediocre BO if neccessary, but I may recommend you NOT to blame it for this.

Why not, if half of the UK was under snow no one would be rushing out to see a film about a basketball coach, or using their snow-ploughs just to see Jennifer Garner kick some ass.
Horrible holdovers were caused by a combination of post- MLK weekend decline - and the snow storm, i think its perfectly valid to say alot of those movies could have held 10, 20% better if the weather had permitted.

The only reason Are We There Yet didn't suffer heavily was because most of the urban markets are located in places that werent affected by the storm. It probobly could have pulled in a few million more if the storm never happened.

So why is it Coach Carter affected, it appeals to heavily to the urban market as Are We there yet?

Face it, Are We There Yet appealed to people. Johnson Family Vacation had the same PTA this one did, so I don't know why anyone would think that this doesn't go for the same audience that did. Plus, places like Philadelphia and New York do have urban markets, and they did get 1-2ft of snow, so... :razz:

Are We There Yet? appealed to both the urban crowd and also the family crowd which is why it did much better then most people were expecting.

And we will never know how much Are We There Yet? could've grossed for the weekend without the snow. We saw the evidence of snowstorm affecting holdover films through the weekend drops, but we have no reference for Are We There Yet?. It may have grossed over $20M without the bad weather.

I think it would have. I was originally predicting a weekend gross of $24 million and I think it could have easily made that much or more.

Assuming the weather is getting better, the numbers from weekdays and next weekend will tell the story.

I think we will see an inflated box office for next weekend. For example, I expect Are We There Yet? to fall only 35-40%, mainly due to its family genre. Its weekday numbers should also be fairly strong.

Just as an interesting footnote to how much the East Coast affected the numbers, business was off 60% from last weekend (according to entdata), most other areas had drops in the 20's and the 30's.

Although, brilliant for Fockers \:D/