The Pacifier $30.55m
Be Cool $23.45m
Hitch $12.12m
Diary of a Mad Black Woman $11.03m
Million Dollar Baby $8.14m
Constantine $6.13m
Cursed $3.87m
Man of the House $3.51m
Because of Winn-Dixie $3.20m
The Jacket $2.72m

wow, i'm impressed the pacifier managed to stay above $30million, good number for M$B but i had hoped for more.

damn you to hell Vinny

Diary of a Mad Black Woman dropped almost $1 million from estimates. Quite a drop for the film, not that it wasn't expected though.

Fantastic for The Pacifier. It managed to remain above $30 million.

Good numbers for TP,Hitch and Be cool.
M$B also did good but i expected more.

The Pacifier went up from its estimate, which is nice to see for a change.

Be Cool was on-target, as well.

Box Office Mojo numbers are up:

http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2005&wknd=09&p=.htm

M$B better keep steady next weekend and fall no more then 15%, thats not such a good increase.

Only 10% for Million Dollar Baby is dissapointing, however the film still has a relatively good chance at $100 million.

Remember M$B is targeted for the adult audience and they don't go and rush out to see a movie, even if it won some big Oscars. This is not LOTR.

Easily, just check out Aviator back when it had around 76mil, even with 4mil weekends it still managed 97mil on its way to 100mil.

Million Dollar Baby has been out since January. It's not "rushing out to see it" in March.

It just won some big Oscars. I am saying the audience is not rushing out to see it AFTER it won some Oscars.

But you can't talk about Return of the King when you're pointing that out, as Oscars hardly caused that movie to make the amount of money it did.

We'll be able to further debate the M$B issue when whatever wins next year increases by 30 or 40%.

All this talk of Million Dollar Baby makes me want to see it again. Maybe next week.

Good for the Pacifier, but I find M$B very dissappointing, I was expecting atleast 30% increase, but maybe it can hold well and make 100m.

You guys are forgetting it increased last weekend as well. It would have been around $6.4 with a light decline like the Aviator, making this weekend's increase around 27%.

MDBs 10.8% Oscar boost is among the lowest in recent years and this is for a film that added 225 theaters. MDB would have dropped after the Oscars without the added theaters. When Oscar noms were announced The Aviator bounced up 56% and road it's Oscar float for weeks with soft drops despite losing hundreds of theaters each week. With no Oscar float and no big holidays it will be interesting to see how MDB holds up.

Good point. The Aviator also had an Oscar-nom bounce though.

you know .. i never really did check up on the boosts.

what was rotk? for a fan based flick and with so much frontloadedness, how much did it increase?

If you look at BOMs article he looks at the Oscar boosts for the film that had not reached $100 mil by Oscar night; Shakespeare in Love, Shindler's List and The English Patient. Those films had post Oscar boosts of 44%, 53% and 50%. A boost of 11% for MDB is really low. Even Chicago bounced 17% after the Oscars.

+39% to 3mil plus it added 800 theaters. So its not really a good comparison seeing as the theater count being that much bigger and its only 3mil from 2.1 the week before.

This is brilliant, PACIFIER remained over $30M and BE COOL stayed steady.