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RATUL - 7.55, DIE4-4.21, ALMT2- 2.155, 1408-1.56, FOUR2-1.18

And our lovely Nikki reports between $8m and $9m for TF...

From SBD:
1. TRANSFORMERS PARAMOUNT 4,011 8,880,000 2,214 n/a 8,880,000
2. RATATOUILLE BVI 3,940 7,560,000 1,919 n/a 53,945,000
3. LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD 20TH CENTURY FOX 3,408 4,205,000 1,234 n/a 52,922,000
4. EVAN ALMIGHTY UNIVERSAL 3,636 2,150,000 591 -45% 62,747,125
5. 1408 MGM 2,733 1,560,000 571 -44% 42,096,034
6. FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER 20TH CENTURY FOX 3,424 1,185,000 346 -51% 116,052,632
7. KNOCKED UP UNIVERSAL 2,686 1,080,000 402 -29% 123,405,335
8. OCEAN'S THIRTEEN WARNER BROS. 2,903 790,000 272 -45% 102,911,028
9. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END BVI 2,162 745,000 345 -25% 296,406,588
10. SICKO LIONS GATE 441 605,000 1,372 4,554% 5,025,000
11. EVENING FOCUS FEATURES 977 535,000 548 n/a 4,060,000
12. SHREK THE THIRD DREAMWORK 2,066 410,000 198 -50% 314,161,439
13. SURF'S UP SONY 2,503 375,000 150 -64% 54,230,679
14. NANCY DREW WARNER BROS. 1,932 375,000 194 -53% 21,598,406
15. MIGHT HEART, A PARAMOUNT 1,350 200,000 148 -49% 7,152,971
16. VIE END ROSE, LA PICTURE HOUSE 142 85,000 599 -11% 5,036,000

VARIETY:
1 Transformers $8,801,025 $8.801
2 Ratatouille $7,550,960 $54.5783
3 Live Free Or Die Hard $4,276,961 $52.675
4 Evan Almighty $2,181,545 $62.861
5 1408 $1,565,265 $42.0073
6 Fantastic Four:Rise Of The Silver Surfer $1,176,317 $116.121
7 Knocked Up $1,052,675 $123.3444
8 Ocean's Thirteen $786,493 $102.907
9 Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End $751,315 $296.4543
10 Sicko (2007) $647,192 $5.2639

Pretty good for the Rat...

Right in line with what I expected for Ratatouille and very impressive for Transformers.

That's excellent for Ratatouille, and well-deserved from what I hear.

Hopefully that great 7.5M estimate for Rat holds. I was afraid Transformers' 8pm showings would have affected it a little.

8/9M (assuming it's 8pm-3am) isn't that good for Transformers...let's see if it explodes today.

I believe $8-9m for Transformers is until midnight, and midnight counts towards Tuesday, as usual. That'd be excellent considering that Pirates did $13m.

It's only excellent if the film isn't heavily frontloaded, and we won't know that for awhile.

Fabulous for Ratatouille.

WOW for ratatoullie.

$230 million is a LOCK.

Yup, I think people are going to be bragging from both sides this week (the $250m+ gang and sub-$250m gang), but we won't get a clear picture until Sunday.

Also, excellent for Ratatouille, finally.

To my eyes, the numbers look great for all three of the biggies -- Transformers, Ratatouille, and Die Hard.

If the RAT's number holds, it will be a better Monday than FINDING NEMO ($6.945m) and CARS ($6.407m)...
And DIE HARD's opening week should be around $55m - not bad for a 12 year dormant franchise...

Nice.

Pretty great for Transformers if that holds. But I'm confused. Transformers played all day yesterday in some places?

All things considered, a 55% drop from Sunday to Monday with Transformers is pretty solid for Die Hard.

Now that LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD is doing great, I'm wondering if WB is planning a LETHAL WEAPON 5...

That's excellent for Ratatouille

I don't think Harry Potter will be a problem, especially considering it's going to open on Wednesday. If you compare Shrek 2 with Shrek 3, you will notice that the Friday after MD weekend Shrek 2 increased by 106% against HP3, while S3 by 111% against no real competition. And I wouldn't say that it was because of S3's legs being shitty, the previous Friday both the 2 movies experienced a 145% rise (#2 against TDAT, #3 against AWE). If it's not enough, look at Chicken Little's increase on Fri against HP4: +260% (if I'm not mistaken). Must be because people seeing HP on OW are mainly fanboys and fangirls. Ratatouille should drop by more than 40% on its third weekend mainly because of this weekend being a little inflated.

Chicken Little increased 285% on last friday, and that was despite it increasing 82% on Thursday. Obviously, HP4 had quite the negative effect on Chicken Little. Not that I'm disagreeing with your 40% drop for Ratatouille, just pointing out a fault in your post.

Ahah! But that's not a mistake. Its previous Friday was highly inflated (I guess because of Veterans Day, not sure though), as the very low increase on Saturday (+10%) and the great weekend-to-weekend drop (-22%) show.

SBD:
1. TRANSFORMERS PARAMOUNT 4,011 8,880,000 2,214 n/a 8,880,000
2. RATATOUILLE BVI 3,940 7,560,000 1,919 n/a 53,945,000
3. LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD 20TH CENTURY FOX 3,408 4,205,000 1,234 n/a 52,922,000
4. EVAN ALMIGHTY UNIVERSAL 3,636 2,150,000 591 -45% 62,747,125
5. 1408 MGM 2,733 1,560,000 571 -44% 42,096,034
6. FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER 20TH CENTURY FOX 3,424 1,185,000 346 -51% 116,052,632
7. KNOCKED UP UNIVERSAL 2,686 1,080,000 402 -29% 123,405,335
8. OCEAN'S THIRTEEN WARNER BROS. 2,903 790,000 272 -45% 102,911,028
9. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END BVI 2,162 745,000 345 -25% 296,406,588
10. SICKO LIONS GATE 441 605,000 1,372 4,554% 5,025,000
11. EVENING FOCUS FEATURES 977 535,000 548 n/a 4,060,000
12. SHREK THE THIRD DREAMWORK 2,066 410,000 198 -50% 314,161,439
13. SURF'S UP SONY 2,503 375,000 150 -64% 54,230,679
14. NANCY DREW WARNER BROS. 1,932 375,000 194 -53% 21,598,406
15. MIGHT HEART, A PARAMOUNT 1,350 200,000 148 -49% 7,152,971
16. VIE END ROSE, LA PICTURE HOUSE 142 85,000 599 -11% 5,036,000

It's Thursday was also highly inflated by Veteran's Day. If everything had been normal, it's friday increase would have been much higher.


Anyways, I would more than welcome a Lethal Weapon 5. It seems nostalgia is really quite powerful right now.

Those that Transformers number include the midnights or will that portion of it be tacked on to todays number?

Nice, they were right about Ratatouille. But we still don't know if Transformers' 8.9M includes Tuesday showings.

Is anybody else disappointed by Sicko's #?

SBD:

1. TRANSFORMERS PARAMOUNT 4,011 8,880,000 2,214 n/a 8,880,000
2. RATATOUILLE BVI 3,940 7,560,000 1,919 n/a 53,945,000
3. LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD 20TH CENTURY FOX 3,408 4,205,000 1,234 n/a 52,922,000
4. EVAN ALMIGHTY UNIVERSAL 3,636 2,150,000 591 -45% 62,747,125
5. 1408 MGM 2,733 1,560,000 571 -44% 42,096,034
6. FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER 20TH CENTURY FOX 3,424 1,185,000 346 -51% 116,052,632
7. KNOCKED UP UNIVERSAL 2,686 1,080,000 402 -29% 123,405,335
8. OCEAN'S THIRTEEN WARNER BROS. 2,903 790,000 272 -45% 102,911,028
9. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END BVI 2,162 745,000 345 -25% 296,406,588
10. SICKO LIONS GATE 441 605,000 1,372 4,554% 5,025,000
11. EVENING FOCUS FEATURES 977 535,000 548 n/a 4,060,000
12. SHREK THE THIRD DREAMWORK 2,066 410,000 198 -50% 314,161,439
13. SURF'S UP SONY 2,503 375,000 150 -64% 54,230,679
14. NANCY DREW WARNER BROS. 1,932 375,000 194 -53% 21,598,406
15. MIGHT HEART, A PARAMOUNT 1,350 200,000 148 -49% 7,152,971
16. VIE END ROSE, LA PICTURE HOUSE 142 85,000 599 -11% 5,036,000

Not a mistake, I just reposted it so it wouldn't get lost on the first page.

Not too bad at all for Transformers considering the 8pm shows werent advertised as heavily on the radio like POTC3 was so I wont say those are bad especially for a nonsequel even if the franchise is supposed to be frontloaded. Still sequels are more inclined to have a higher turnout for midnights

I guess by the end of sunday it should give us a full picture if its going to be that frontloaded or not

Thats pretty solid for Transformers, it for it not even being that advertising for 8PM showings. Great for Rat, had two sell outs at my theatre yesterday.