Haven't done this in awhile...

1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - $32.5
2. The Wedding Crashers - $21.3
3. The Island - $17.9
4. Bad News Bears - $13.2
5. Hustle and Flow - $10.8
6. Fantastic Four - $10.6
7. War of the Worlds - $8.6
8. The Devil's Rejects - $7.1
9. Batman Begins - $3.7
10. Mr. & Mrs. Smith - $3.4
11. March of the Penguins - $2.6

Box Office Prophets

[table][row color=#666699]Rank[col color=#666699]Film[col color=#666699]Estimated[row color=#666699][col color=#666699][col color=#666699]Gross ($)[row]1[col]The Island[col]44.9[row]2[col]Charlie and the Chocolate Factory[col]32.5[row]3[col]Bad News Bears[col]23.3[row]4[col]Wedding Crashers[col]19.4[row]5[col]Fantastic Four[col]10.1[row]6[col]Hustle and Flow[col]8.1[row]7[col]War of the Worlds[col]7.4[row]8[col]The Devil's Rejects[col]5.8[row]9[col]Batman Begins[col]3.9[row]10[col]Mr. & Mrs. Smith[col]3[/table]

According to The Hollywood Reporter, here are how industry insiders put their estimates for the openers:

The Island - might not cross $20M
Bad News Bears - $12-15M
Hustle & Flow - $8-10M
The Devil's Rejects - didn't give a number

It would be damn shameful if The Island can't even cross $20 million this weekend considering Riddick made $24 million last year.

:laugh:

"Didn't give a number" doesn't mean anything.

The fact that myself and seven of my friends are completely psyched for tomorrow night does, though.

This film is going to surprise a lot of people on Saturday morning, methinks. The following HO1C has developed on video is being hugely underestimated.

The only surprise comes Saturday morning when the news reports 7 friends being lobotomized after viewing this..... Who knows?? Maybe it will do decent and maybe it won't.. I really don't see it performing any better than the 1st film though and maybe this should've gone straight to DVD/VHS??

Mike: love your avatar.. have u seen the movie?

STV? Yeah right! It should do 20 Million in theaters and 25-30 Million in rentals. It never would make that much in rentals had it gone STV though. Releasing it in theaters increases awareness and makes sure more see it on DVD. And of course it will perform better than the first. The first opened with only 3.5 Million (which was amazing for it and in only like 595 theaters) and went on to make over 12 Million. Then of course it did over 24 Million in rentals, which alone would boost its fanbase enough to make sure it opens with a nice chunk more than the original did when it's in almost three times as many theaters as that one was.

Which? Eating Out? No I haven't. I really want to but it was only in limited release and didn't play around me. I can't wait to see it this next week though. It hits DVD Tuesday. Ryan Carnes (Desperate Housewives) is a hottie and he goes full frontal in the movie \:D/.

Uh, Mike what are you talking about?? I'm referring to Devil's Rejects not performing worth a fuck anymore than House of a 1000 Dead Corpses did.. What movie are you talking about?? What's STV??

Are you sure that's not your Island prediction Zing?

Pfft, no. I'm going with $30 million.

my derby entries:

1. The Land 40.0
2. Charles and the Factory of Donuts 36.5
3. Four Weddings and a Funeral Crasher 18.9
4. Bears are Bad News 18.0
5. Terrific Four and 1/3 10.2
6. ID4 2: Cruise Time! 8.8
7. Do the Hustle and Flow! 7.8
8. The Rejected Zombies 4.0
9. Penguins on Parade 4.0
10. Fatman Ends 3.7

Straight to Video.

Final Predictions...

[table][row color=#FFFF00]Rank[col color=#FFFF00]Movie[col color=#FFFF00]Prediction[col color=#FFFF00]Drop[row]1[col]Charlie and the Chocolate Factory[col]$32,600,000 [col]-42%[row color=#FFFF99]2[col color=#FFFF99]The Island[col color=#FFFF99]$30,000,000 [col color=#FFFF99]NEW[row]3[col]Wedding Crashers[col]$21,000,000 [col]-38%[row color=#FFFF99]4[col color=#FFFF99]The Bad News Bears[col color=#FFFF99]$17,500,000 [col color=#FFFF99]NEW[row]5[col]Fantastic Four[col]$10,900,000 [col]-52%[row color=#FFFF99]6[col color=#FFFF99]The Devil's Rejects[col color=#FFFF99]$8,200,000 [col color=#FFFF99]NEW[row color=#FFFF99]7[col color=#FFFF99]Hustle & Flow[col color=#FFFF99]$8,100,000 [col color=#FFFF99]NEW[row]8[col]War of the Worlds[col]$8,000,000 [col]-47%[row]9[col]Batman Begins[col]$3,900,000 [col]-35%[row]10[col]March of the Penguins[col]$3,900,000 [col]160%[/table]

It's such a tough weekend. I couldn't decide what to predict for all four openers...

Prediction have been sent and will be on the front page in the morning.

Let's me just say that this article is one of the longest articles I have ever written. Pay close attention at my reasionings.

Charlie - 33.3
Island - 25.5
Wedding Crashers - 19.9
Bad News Bears - 15.5
Fantastic Four - 9.9
Hustle & Flow - 8.8
War of the Worlds - 7.7
Devil's Rejects - 6.6
March of the Penguins - 4.1 (I really wanna do 4.4)
Batman Begins - 3.6 (I really wanna do 3.3 or 5.5 or something, heh)

Here are my crazy predictions, I think I've been playing too much poker :wink:

Box Office Report

The Island - $29 million
The Bad News Bears - $19 million
Hustle and Flow - $12 million
The Devil's Rejects - $7 million

Now when you say Devil's Rejects should do 20 Million in theatres, is that in it's opening weekend or all together domestically??

Derby

[table][row color=#333333]Movie[col color=#333333]Prediction[row color=#FFCC00]The Island[col color=#FFCC00]$27,50[row]Charlie and the Chocolate Factory[col]$27,40[row]Wedding Crashers[col]$20,00[row color=#FFCC00]Bad News Bears[col color=#FFCC00]$14,80[row]Fantastic Four[col]$10,80[row]War of the Worlds[col]$7,90[row color=#FFCC00]The Devil's Rejects[col color=#FFCC00]$7,90[row color=#FFCC00]Hustle and Flow[col color=#FFCC00]$5,40[row]Batman Begins[col]$3,60[row color=#00FFFF]March of the Penguins[col color=#00FFFF]$2,80[row color=#333333]Overall[col color=#333333]$128,10[row color=#FFCC00]Openers[col color=#FFCC00]$55,60[row]Holdovers[col]$72,50[/table]

Charlie and the Chocolat .............29.5
The Island..................................22.7
Wedding Crashers.......................20.7
Bad News Bears (2005)................13.7
Fantastic Four..............................10.6
War of the Worlds........................7.7
Hustle and Flow............................7.1
The Devil's Rejects.......................5.7
Batman Begins.............................3.6
March of the Penguins...................3.5

Naturalflux7's Predictions

Rnk Movie Title Weekend Drop
1. The Island $32.8 NEW
2. Charlie & The … $32.2 -42.7%
3. The Wedding Cr.. $20.8 -38.7%
4. Bad News Bears $16.6 NEW
5. Fantastic Four $10.3 -55.0%
6. Hustle & Flow $9.1 NEW
7. War of the Worlds $7.6 -50.0%
8. The Devils Rejects $5.4 NEW
9. March of the Penguins $4.3 +185%
10. Batman Begins $3.7 -38.0%

Final Predictions:

[table]
[row color=#FFFF00]Rank[col color=#FFFF00]Movie[col color=#FFFF00]Prediction[col color=#FFFF00]Drop
[row]1[col]Charlie and the Chocolate Factory[col]$32,000,000[col]-43.0%
[row]2[col]Wedding Crashers[col]$22,500,000[col]-33.6%
[row color=#FFFF99]3[col color=#FFFF99]The Island[col color=#FFFF99]$21,000,000[col color=#FFFF99]NEW
[row color=#FFFF99]4[col color=#FFFF99]The Bad News Bears[col color=#FFFF99]$16,500,000[col color=#FFFF99]NEW
[row]5[col]Fantastic Four[col]$11,200,000[col]-50.8%
[row color=#FFFF99]6[col color=#FFFF99]Hustle & Flow[col color=#FFFF99]$8,500,000[col color=#FFFF99]NEW
[row]7[col]War of the Worlds[col]$8,400,000[col]-44.9%
[row color=#FFFF99]8[col color=#FFFF99]The Devil's Rejects[col color=#FFFF99]$6,000,000[col color=#FFFF99]NEW
[row]9[col]March of the Penguins[col]$4,200,000[col]177.22%
[row]10[col]Batman Begins[col]$3,700,000[col]-38.7%
[/table]

Just noticed how close my predictions are to Brandon's.