1- FLIGHTPLAN $956,342 -19.4% $49,127,667
2- HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, A $610,000 -19.2% $10,977,000
3- SERENITY $558,125 -20.4% $12,078,790
4- CORPSE BRIDE, THE $544,268 -26.6% $35,060,898
5- INTO THE BLUE $433,726 -23.3% $8,595,159
6- JUST LIKE HEAVEN $404,633 -16.3% $39,727,673
7- EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE, THE $263,532 -18.7% $69,402,410
8- GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED, THE $262,909 -17.5% $4,515,260
9- 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN, THE $259,125 -10.8% $102,202,903
10- LORD OF WAR $225,959 -11.9% $22,360,022

BOM

not too bad for Serenity

btw, Ramadan Mubarak ya Ahmed!

Cool, JLH is catching up to ITB. I hope it beats it this weekend.

March of the Penguins held up very well, only 10% drop after the 45% increase on Tuesday.

Wallace and Gromit $12,166 2 / $6,083

Good number for Wallace & Gromit.

Um...no not really. 6000 PTA in 2 theatres seems pretty terrible to me for a movie like this, unless I'm missing something?

? Um, aren't you gone?

The number is very good for an animated film on Wednesday. Let's suppose if it weren't expanding. Then it will most likely increase 250% on Friday and have 3.6 - 4.0 IM, and that means we would be looking at > $60000 PTA for sure. So yes, it's a very good opening.

For a weekday, $6000 is a bloody excellent theatre average for Wallace and Gromit. The Corpse Bride only pulled in a $6000 theatre average on its first weekdays after having an $80,000+ average the opening weekend.

It's a kids film opening on a weekday in only 2 theatres, and even though it was opening day, I'd still say $6000 is a terrific number.

But it is opening day. Corpse Bride had 6000 PTA like 5-6 days in. I don't know, I still don't think it'll do great.

I didn't even know it was being released on Wednesday.

I'm willing to bet that its audience didn't know either, and if they did, they are kids, you know. School days...

With expansion, nobody knows how it's going to do. Corpse Bride didn't do great when expanded. But just judge the opening Wednesday number by its own merit, it's more than excellent. Few people rushed out to see an animated film on a Wednesday, even when it's a sequal during summer time like Shrek 2.

Shrek 2 didn't open in only two theatres though. Besides, I'm surprised anyone rushed to see it at anytime during its release. Still baffles me to this day.....

I had no idea the movie was opening anywhere on Wednesday, is it like one theater in LA and one in NY or something? It's not like they even said opens in select theaters on Wednesday, it's totally out of the blue for me. I dont think anyone should be looking into it that much good or bad, it's just there.

But wouldn't 2 theaters even more prevent people from rushing? I mean, two days later, it'll be showing in over 3600 theaters. What incentive do I have to watch it today?

There are certainly fans rushed to see it, and even with that, $6000 PTA is great.

BTW according to IMDb it's in 13 theaters toay

Reminds me of when Man on Fire at the last minute opened on Wednesday in just NY and LA.

And that got a $9,900 PTA from 2 theatres, so I guess $6,000 isn't bad at all for a kids film. Man Of Fire went on to make around $22m that weekend in 2900 theatres, so while I doubt we can realistically use the wednesday figure to project the weekend for Wallace & Gromit, it shouldn't spell doom and gloom for it when these figures suggest $20m is in the range of possible totals from here. I'm happy with the number myself.

Yeah, Man on Fire got considerably worse reviews, but it was also aimed at adults rather then kids, so I'd say it evens out. I don't know, the more I think about it the harder this one is to judge, it could go from 13 to 25 million, although I think somewhere in the mid to high teens is where it'll end up (call it 18 million).

actually got time for the derby...don't know if this is a blessing or a punishment

Not with that theatre drop of 1,200 theatres for JLH.


Wallace & Gromit's number really doesn't tell us anything about its weekend gross, so the numbers are pretty useless here.

Besides, ITB is a better movie than JLH - plus, I'll wager 400 quatloos that Moolah hasn't even seen [i]ITB[/b]...

$60,000 per screen average!!! Are you saying that this will break all records.

I was referring to if it has remained in 2 theaters this weekend.