Admissions:

1) 339,476 SHUTTER*
2) 278,172 AVATAR*
3) 107,864 PERCY
4) 101,390 OCEANS
5) 92,828 ROCK IT

*AVATAR is still No. 1 at the b.o.

Hmm, well, it had 278,000 admissions last weekend and now stands at 9,643,983 admissions. Still thinking that it'll pass 10 million only barely?

Again, let's see how it survives Alice...

Your current US, worldwide and German projections, please!

DOM $740m
WW $2.7b
GER 10.4m adm

Perfect - all are systematically underestimated

We'll see, oh yes we will...

you are the worlds biggest pessimist.

And you are the worlds biggest optimist.

optimism wins every time




every time

Not in your case.

most of the time when it counts I win.

Narnia over Kong and Potter
DMC over Sups Returns
The Passion over 125m 5-Day
Iron Man over 300m
Trek over 250m
Avatar biggest Ever

and the list goes on....

More retroactive updates


December 10-13, 2009


Rank - Movie - Weekend admissions - Change from Last Week - Total admissions - Week #


1. Zweiohrküken - 627,219 - -27.4% - 1,783,552 - 2
2. The Princess and the Frog - 323,435 - NEW - 323,435 - 1
3. The Twilight Saga: New Moon - 274,177 - -47.6% - 2,806,500 - 3
4. 2012 - 117,754 - -39.9% - 3,049,438 - 5
5. Saw VI - 70,369 - -55.7% - 263,761 - 2
6. A Christmas Carol - 60,599 - -10.8% - 784,220 - 6
7. Zombieland - 55,497 - NEW - 55,497 - 1
8. Niko - 48,939 - -19.1% - 588,141 - 6
9. Planet 51 - 45,606 - -40.8% - 137,994 - 2
10. Pope Joan - 36,951 - -30% - 2,234,146 - 8

December 17-20, 2009


Rank - Movie - Weekend admissions - Change from Last Week - Total admissions - Week #


1. Avatar - 893,169 - NEW - 893,169 - 1
2. Zweiohrküken - 369,092 - -41.1% - 2,361,932 - 3
3. The Princess and the Frog - 184,479 - -43% - 583,990 - 3
4. The Twilight Saga: New Moon - 126,444 - -53.9% - 3,012,341 - 4
5. 2012 - 44,586 - -62.1% - 3,123,880 - 6
6. A Christmas Carol - 38,563 - -36.4% - 847,616 - 7
7. Niko - 36,275 - -25.9% - 640,182 - 7
8. Lila, Lila - 30,300 - NEW - 30,300 - 1
9. Planet 51 - 26,999 - -40.8% - 174,769 - 3
10. Where the Wild Things Are - 26,457 - NEW - 26,457 - 1



As you can see, 2012 was completely destroyed when Avatar came out.

December 24-27, 2009


Rank - Movie - Weekend admissions - Change from Last Week - Total admissions - Week #


1. Avatar - 857,286 - -4% - 2,344,676 - 2
2. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel - 338,299 - NEW - 338,299 - 1
3. Zweiohrküken - 311,975 - -15.5% - 2,916,817 - 4
4. Fame - 173,230 - NEW - 173,230 - 1
5. Soul Kitchen - 163,138 - NEW - 163,138 - 1
6. The Princess and the Frog - 150,022 - -18.7% - 853,576 - 3
7. The Twilight Saga: New Moon - 77,027 - -39.1% - 3,178,418 - 5
8. Dinosaurier - 48,360 - NEW - 48,360 - 1
9. Albert Schweitzer - 43,023 - NEW - 43,023 - 1
10. 2012 - 32,390 - -27.4% - 3,186,224 - 7

More updated chats in the upcoming days.

Looks like AVATAR survived the ALICE onslaught pretty good...

12th weekend could be around 175,000 admissions (-37 %) while ALICE looks like 550,000 (biggest opening of 2010)...

I remember Shutter Island was opening in Germany this weekend as well. Any early reports for that ?

See 2nd post on this page...

yay

Or are they?

Yes, they are.

Another update


December 31, 2009 - January 3, 2010


Rank - Movie - Weekend admissions - Change from Last Week - Total admissions - Week #


1. Avatar - 740,152 - -13.7% - 3,934,494 - 3
2. Zweiohrküken - 256,471 - -17.8% - 3,532,732 - 5
3. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel - 249,812 - -26.2% - 935,872 - 2
4. Soul Kitchen - 109,845 - -14% - 450,212 - 2
5. Fame - 109,845 - -36.6% - 453,021 - 2
6. The Princess and the Frog - 108,033 - -28% - 1,141,714 - 4
7. The Rebound - 81,311 - NEW - 81,311 - 1
8. The Twilight Saga: New Moon - 64,448 - -39.1% - 3,347,835 - 6
9. Dinosaurier - 37,132 - -23.2% - 134,119 - 2
10. Yahsi Bati - 36,248 - NEW - 36,248 - 1

After yesterday's blizzard it is extremely difficult to get a handle on how ALICE will perform on Sunday...

ALICE's opening weekend could be anywhere between 525,000-650,000 admissions...
SHUTTER ISLAND should drop around 34 % to 225,000 while AVATAR is a monster, dropping 28 % to about 200,000 admissions...
New total for AVATAR should be 9,925,000 Sunday Night...

Estimated weekend admissions:

1. Alice in Wonderland - 550,000
2. Shutter Island - 235,000
3. Avatar - 205,000 (-26.3%)
4. The Men Who Stare at Goats - 170,000


Avatar is #13 of all-time (since 1968) admissions-wise with around 9,930,000 admissions already. Top 10 will take a while (it'll need 10.7 million admissions to get there). I expect it at around 10.15 million by the end of the next weekend.