I personal hope that "Hide and Seek" will get mostly posivite reviews, but it isn't likely to happen.

Hide and Seek $14.3M
Million Dollar Baby $12.6M
Alone In The Dark $10.5M

breaking the January opening madness

Anyway, I think that "ARE WE THERE YET?" will remain No.1 at this weekend.

Family movies always have good legs.

1. Hide and Seek - $15.2 million
2. Million Dollar Baby - $12.3 million
3. Are We There Yet? - $10.1 million
5. Alone in the Dark - $8.9 million
4. Meet the Fockers - $7.5 million

mary, I believe the name of the movie is "HIDE and Seek". I agree with Zing on this one, and I can't see it making less than $15 million this weekend.

And you're so wrong about Alone in the Dark. Teens and young adults have taste and most of them are way too smart to think that anything starring Christian Slater and Tara Reid will be good. I will be shocked if that makes more than $5 million.

If House of the Dead can makes more than $5 million, why Alone in the Dark can't? Lions Gate(in 2005) is a much better distributor than Artisan(in 2003).


PS: In fact, I am surprised that Lions Gate, which bought us Open Water, Saw , House of 1000 Corpses and Cabin Fever, is willing to acquire North American distribution rights of Alone in the Dark.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/arch ... c9326.html

Maybe Lions Gate know somethings we don't knoe.....

Lions Gate do do well with HORROR.

Cabin Fever, House Of 1,000 Corpses, Open Water and Especially SAW were all massive money making hits.

Hide and Seek -- $19.45 million (new)
Million Dollar Baby -- $12.03 million (+627%)
Are We There Yet? -- $10.73 million (-42%)
Alone in the Dark -- $7.3 million (new)
In Good Company -- $6.79 million (-15%)
Meet the Fockers -- $5.9 million (-40%)
The Aviator -- $5.75 million (+18%)
Coach Carter -- $5.35 millon (-50%)
Sideways - $3.97 million (+42%)
Racing Stripes - $3.74 million (-45%)
Assault on Precinct 13 -- $3.38 million (-48%)
The Phantom of the Opera - $2.92 million (-35%)

You guys, keep in mind that Sideways is apparently expanding to about 1700 theatres this weekend. Given that's about an increase of 1,000 theatres, it'll most likely have a large increase. I mean, I'm thinking at least over 50%.

New predictions.

1. Hide and Seek - $19.1 million
2. Million Dollar Baby - $14.8 million
3. Are We There Yet? - $11.2 million
4. Alone in the Dark - $7.4 million
5. Meet the Fockers - $6.3 million

1. Hide and Seek - $17.1 (NEW)
2. Are We There Yet? - $12.8 (-31%)
3. Million Dollar Baby - $12.4 (+650%)
4. Coach Carter - $6.9 (-35%)
5. Meet the Fockers - $6.0 (-38%)
6. Alone in the Dark - $5.6 (NEW)
7. In Good Company - $5.4 (-33%)
8. Sideways - $4.6 (+60%)
** Racing Stripes - $4.3 (-36.5%)
** Assault on Precinct 13 - $3.7 (-43%)

Expect urban and artsy films to have small drops. Coach Carter has two things going for its 3rd weekend: no snow and it's Paramount. Mean Girls fell a hefty 44% its 2nd weekend like any Paramount film, then rebounded its 3rd by falling 25% and continuing its good legs. Manchurian Candidate did the same as well.

I'm waiting until I see the Oscar noms to make any predictions on that, The Aviator, or Million Dollar Baby.

Yeah, I may up my prediction for Sideways. Currently I have it at $3.97 million, but I think it could easily gross $5.5 million.

So the noms are out, push for Million, Sideways, Aviator, and Phantom I think!!

I don't think Phantom of the Opera will see any noteworthy push this weekend, since it only got technical nominations.

Any nominations are good because the tv spot can start saying "Now nominated for 3 academy awards". Probably not much more expansions, but it will hang in there for a while.

Usually, well at least at my theatre, the best weekends for nominated films are the week after nominations, the week before the oscars and the week after...

the 3 weeks in between now and then dont really do much

Updated/Close to Final Predictions
1. Hide and Seek - $16.1 million
2. Million Dollar Baby - $14.7 million
3. Are We There Yet? - $11.5 million
4. Coach Carter - $6.9 million
5. Meet the Fockers - $6.5 million
6. Sideways - $6.3 million
7. The Aviator - $6.1 million
8. In Good Company - $5.4 million
9. Alone in the Dark - $5.0 million
10. Racing Stripes - $4.2 million

Coach Carter - $6.8m
Meet the Fockers - $6.9m
In Good Company - $6.5m
Racing Stripes - $4.3m
Assault on Precinct 13 - $3.7m
White Noise - $4.17m
The Aviator - $8.3m
Are We There Yet? - $8.4m
Sideways - $6.7m
Hide and Seek - $15.4m
Million Dollar Baby - $13.2m
Alone in the Dark - $5.0m

A lot of you are underestimating The Aviator. If it increases 250% on Friday, it's virtually set for a $9.5m+ weekend.

Updated (very small drops all around):

1. Hide and Seek - $19.2 mil
2. Million Dollar Baby - $14.5 mil
3. Are We There Yet - $11 mil
4. The Aviator - $8 mil
5. Meet the Fockers - $7.5 mil
6. Coach Carter - $7.3 mil
7. In Good Company - $6.6 mil
8. Alone in the Dark - $5.9 mil
9. Sideways - $5.8 mil
10. Racing Stripes - $4.4 mil

Updated Predictions:

1. Hide & Seek - $20.4 (NEW)
2. Million Dollar Baby - $13.2 (+700%)
3. Are We There Yet? - $12.3 (-34%)
4. The Aviator - $8.5 (+75%)
5. Sideways - $7.1 (+150%)
6. Coach Carter - $6.9 (-35%)
7. Meet the Fockers - $6.6 (-32%)
8. In Good Company - $5.6 (-30%)
9. Alone in the Dark - $5.2 (NEW)
10. Racing Stripes - $5.0 (-26%)
11. The Phantom of the Opera - $4.8 (+5%)
12. Assault on Precinct 13 - $4.3 (-34%)

Huge weekend for all movies!

1. Million Dollar Baby 16.5 million
2. Hide and Seek 15 million
3. Are We There Yet? 12 million
4. The Aviator 7.5 million
5. Coach Carter 7 million
7. Alone in the Dark 6.5 million

I'm gonna agree with Moviedude on Hide and Seek not taking #1, it just doesn't look that good. AOTD is gonna surprise alot of you, it looks so stupid that it may be impossible to resist.

#1: Million Dollar Baby - $14.7M
#2: Hide and Seek - $12.3M
#3: Are We There Yet? - $11.2M
#4: Alone In The Dark - $9.8M
#5: The Aviator - $8.8M
#6: Coach Carter - $7.3M
#7: Sideways - $6.8M
#8: Meet The Fockers - $6.2M
#9: In Good Company - $5.9M
#10: Racing Stripes - $5.5M

Hide and Seek -- $19.45 million (new)
Million Dollar Baby -- $13.43 (+700%)
Are We There Yet? -- $9.62 million (-48%)
Meet the Fockers -- $7.38 million (-45%)
The Aviator -- $7.3 million (+50%)
In Good Company -- $6.79 million (-15%)
Alone in the Dark -- $6.3 million (new)
Coach Carter -- $5.35 millon (-50%)
Sideways - $4.05 million (+45%)
Racing Stripes - $3.74 million (-45%)
Assault on Precinct 13 -- $3.38 million (-48%)
The Phantom of the Opera - $2.92 million (-35%)

Final Fredictions

Hide and Seek - 18.4 (at least a 6000 PTA)
Are We There Yet - 10.7 (-42%)
Million Dollar Baby - 10.5 (At least a 5000 PTA)
Alone in the Dark - 7.8 (House of the Dead like PTA)
Aviator - 7.7 (midweek lead to a 60% increase)
Fockers - 6.3
Coach - 6.3
Sideways - 6.2 (Over 3500 per screen)
In Good - 5.0
Racing - 5.0
Assault - 4.0
Phantom - 3.4

Most of the holdover drops are very low because of last weeks storm. The reason why I am giving these predictions now is because I might be gone this weekend and I have no time for an article this weekend. Sorry everyone.