1 MEET THE FOCKERS $11,486,275 -9.1% / $3,265 $108,547,305
2 LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS $5,004,849 -5.2% / $1,381 $75,000,397
3 FAT ALBERT $3,177,284 -2.9% / $1,188 $19,817,024
4 OCEAN'S TWELVE $2,600,000 (estimate) -5.5% / $790 $94,831,000
5 THE AVIATOR $2,315,000 (estimate) -6.7% / $1,289 $17,519,699
6 THE POLAR EXPRESS $2,300,000 (estimate) -1.2% / $879 $147,221,000
7 NATIONAL TREASURE $1,646,319 2.9% / $748 $145,834,991
8 SPANGLISH $1,580,000 (estimate) -2.2% / $647 $22,949,000
9 THE INCREDIBLES $1,301,313 2.1% / $751 $246,140,488
10 DARKNESS $1,293,000 (estimate) -11% / $761 $10,628,040
11 THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU $1,260,035 -6% / $1,140 $9,068,982
12 THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $1,220,000 (estimate) -2.9% / $1,961 $10,096,000

Great numbers for Fockers, Lemony Snicket, National Treasure, and The Incredibles.

Not bad for Phantom

Wow, decent numbers alround, but darkness is still dropping

Yet, Darkness is a crappy horror flick.

Congrats to The Incredibles for passing Toy Story 2, and it will pass HP3 by the end of the weekend.

The Incredibles keeps incresing and incresing!

nice hold all around!

Nice increase for Incredibles. I'm also happy Lemony Snicket's doing well this week, maybe it can incrase over the weekend. 8)

Wooo! More greatness for Lemony! . The movie isn't such a failure after all. The 3 (or 4) sequels should be greenlighted. They gotta do them soon or else the kids are gonna be too old. Meet The Fockers is a monster, pow!

Lovely number for The Polar Express again. I hope it can break $150 million tomorrow and $155 million after the weekend. I am glad that the movie is not a bomb that the people were predicting after its rather disappointing opening weekend. A $265+ million worldwide gross looks pretty certain at this point.

Amazing for Meet the Fockers. I see a weekend of around $37 million for it. It is almost certain to break $200 million now.

Once again, a decent number for The Phantom of the Opera, hopefully the expansion will help it in a couple of weeks.

I'm very happy for Meet the Fockers! Hopefully it can have Pirates of the Caribbean legs. This and Pirates had almost the exact same opening weekend and 5-day opening.

Darkness is dropping harder than any movies in 1999. It may not crack $4M this weekend.

In the Good Company had a really good start.

Still, Miramax only paid $4 million to acquire the distribution rights of DARKNESS, so this movie is a very profitable acquisition for Miramax.

Wouldn't surprise me considering how horrible the WoM seems to be. Check this out:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273517/board/threads/

On the first page alone there are 8 threads talking about how bad the film is

The user rating though is 6.0, which is still not very good, but no where near the bottom 100 list. I still predict the film will drop 50% on Friday, New Year eve.

Orignally this movie was 6.2, after the PG-13 version was released, it drops to 6.0..........

I think that Miramax heavily edited DARKNESS to get PG-13 is the main version why WoM is horrible .

I see. Dropping 0.2 with only a few hundred votes(I assume) is pretty big.

Well, the rating was at 6.4/10 before the US release. It was just at 6.1 yesterday, looks like it is going down considerably after the release of the cut version.

As of now I predict $3.45 million for the weekend.

Anyway, the success of DARKNESS and THE GRUDGE prove that editing horror movies to get PG-13 can make money, no matter how bad the reviews they get.
And then, many movie [unrated version] DVD is doing very well in DVD market.


Therefore, we can expect more PG-13 horror movies and their [unrated version] DVD in the future. (eg. CURSED? )

Ok, confess, how much is Miramax paying you to support Darkness?

I hope they pay me a percentage of the DARKNESS ticket sales for that.

Unlucky, they don't pay me anything.

They should pay you for all the support, hahaha.

I'm still waiting for my check from Sony and Pixar.

another great day for fockers. man this movie is a monster