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Tom Cruise
6/29/05 War of the Worlds $234,280,354
8/6/04 Collateral $101,005,703
12/5/03 The Last Samurai $111,127,263
7/26/02 Austin Powers in Goldmember(Cameo) $213,307,889
6/21/02 Minority Report $132,072,926
4/19/02 Space Station 3-D (Narrator) $64,771,826
12/14/01 Vanilla Sky $100,618,344
5/24/00 Mission: Impossible II $215,409,889
12/17/99 Magnolia $22,455,976
7/16/99 Eyes Wide Shut $55,691,208
12/13/96 Jerry Maguire $153,952,592
5/22/96 Mission: Impossible $180,981,886
11/11/94 Interview with the Vampire $105,264,608
7/2/93 The Firm $158,348,367
12/11/92 A Few Good Men $141,340,178
5/22/92 Far and Away $58,883,840
6/29/90 Days of Thunder $82,670,733
12/22/89 Born on the Fourth of July $70,001,698
12/16/88 Rain Man $172,825,435
7/29/88 Cocktail $78,222,753
10/17/86 The Color of Money $52,293,982
5/16/86 Top Gun $176,786,701
4/18/86 Legend $15,502,112
10/21/83 All the Right Moves $17,233,166
8/5/83 Risky Business $63,541,777
4/8/83 Losin' It $1,246,141
3/25/83 The Outsiders $25,697,647
12/9/81 Taps $35,856,053
7/17/81 Endless Love $31,184,024

Lifetime Gross Total (25): $2,537,613,685
Average: $101,504,547
Opening Gross Average (20): $23,074,575 (Wide Releases Only)

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WILL SMITH
2/11/05 Hitch $179,495,555
10/1/04 Shark Tale(Voice) $160,861,908
7/16/04 I, Robot Fox $144,801,023
3/26/04 Jersey Girl(Cameo) $25,268,157
7/18/03 Bad Boys II $138,608,444
7/3/02 Men in Black II $190,418,803
12/25/01 Ali $58,203,105
11/3/00 The Legend of Bagger Vance $30,919,168
6/30/99 Wild Wild West $113,805,681
11/20/98 Enemy of the State $111,549,836
7/2/97 Men in Black $250,690,539
7/3/96 Independence Day $306,169,268
4/7/95 Bad Boys $65,807,024
12/10/93 Six Degrees of Separation $6,405,918
5/28/93 Made in America $44,942,695
9/11/92 Where the Day Takes You $390,152

Lifetime Gross Total (15): $1,803,069,119
Average: $120,204,608
Opening Gross Average (13): $34,168,699 (Wide Releases Only)

Tom Cruise is definitely the most consistent BO draw. He is probably the only actor that can bring any genre to $100m (whether or not that's still true remains to be seen). Hanks is similar, but has slipped a tad recently. Smith's last drama only did 60m. Sandler and Carrey's dramas do worse (but they are comedians, so maybe it doesn't matter).

BKB. :O

BKB, looks like your were right.

I HATE U!! IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!!

WOKJs Best MI3 prediction: BKB

Best MI3 Professional Predictors : BOP

Everybrokenclockisrighttwiceaday.

ButgoodgoingBKB,nicecall.

As in BKB and BOP?

9PM on Friday = not impressive at all. It was clear by afternoon that MI3 was going to underperform.

Exactly, most everyone knew it was going to underperform as soon as notfabio and Scott V reported their theater revenue. If anyone deserves credit, it should be DP07 who stuck with a prediction under 60 million despite MTC projecting a 68 million take. MTC seems to be extremely off on oversaturated media blitz on tentpole movies. They did it last year with King Kong when they projected a 88 million 5 day take. I think MTC is more about awareness than projections

Yeah you know me!

You are correct 100% of the time. So that analogy does not work for you.

BTW, Are we going to track BKB's movie theater parking lot for future Box Office predictions? May be insomniacdude and BKB can give two hour updates.

BKB had a good hunch last night, but DP07 predicted it, like, a year ago.

BKB is a bonafide genius

A "BKB parking lot thread"

Fucking brilliant. Seriously.

BKB, how's the ol' theater parking lot tonight? A little better?

Like... 60% better?

That's quite wrong. Reel Source is a lot more about awareness, and when they are close, it's more like random luck. MTC's projections actually mean something each week.

To think that RS had MI3 at nearly double the actual just two weeks ago. So much for that TDVC under 50m projection.

For a Saturday Night and a movie that's supposed to be really good kicking off the Spring/Summer Season and not even a 1/4 Full, I'd say this is quite shocking and doesn't bode well for this movie..