According to fandango.com, Edwards Atlantic Palace 10 (w/o stadium seating) has following movies:

Blade: Trinity - 13 shows in 2-3 screens
CWTK - 10 in 2 (will be 5 in 1 on Friday, losing 1 screen to Incredibles)
Grudge - 2 in 1 (night only)
Incredibles - 9 in 2 (will be 13 in 2-3 on Friday, getting 1 screen from CTWK)
Spongebob Squarepants - 13 in 2-3 (loses 1 screen at night to Grudge)

Seed of Chucky and Saw will be gone in 2 days.

No info for Edwards Renaissance 14 on Friday yet but probably will add Ocean's 12 and drop After the Sunset, BJ2 and/or Ray.

Regal Rockville Center 13

DECEMBER 8
Alexander - 1 screen (3 shows)
Blade: Trinity - 2 screens (8 shows)
Bridget Jones 2 - 1 screen (4 shows)
Christmas with the Kranks - 1 screen (4 shows)
Closer - 2 screens (8 shows)
Finding Neverland - 1 screen (4 shows)
The Incredibles - 1 screen (4 shows)
National Treasure - 1 screen (4 shows)
The Polar Express - 1 screen (4 shows)
Sideways - 1 screen (4 shows)
Spongebob - 1 screen (5 shows)

no information for Friday yet.

3 screens for Blade: Trinity at Scott's theater on Wednesday.

Sounds good. Maybe it will have more on Friday. I'm hoping for atleast a $8,000-$9,000 PTA for this one, since Blade II had a $12,500 PTA. It would have been able to get $12,500 PTA if it weren't for Ocean's Twelve.

One of my local theaters will be having 5 showings a day (weekdays) for Birth this week. Rather odd.

Edwards Renaissance 14 DIDN'T drop movies, but took few of their screens to Ocean's 12:

Ocean's 12 - 13 shows in 3 screens
After the Sunset - 5 in 1
Alexander - 7 in 2
BJ:EOR - 5 in 2
closer - 10 in 2
Finding Neverland - 5 in 1
National Treasure - 8 in 2
Polar Express - 5 in 1
Ray - 4 in 1

Final comment: Blade: Trinity has midnight screenings tonight.

2912 for Blade: Trinity on Wednesday, not as many as I expected, but may still break 3000 on Friday.

FYI, Blade II had 3 screens as well. I think three is the perfect number for this (Blade did not play here, because the theater did not open yet).

Century 20 Great Mall, Milpitas, CA:

New
Ocean's Twelve - 5 screens (21 showings)
Blade: Trinity - 4 screens (17 showings)
Closer - 1 screen (5 showings)

Holdovers
Alexander - 1 screen (3 showings)
Christmas with the Kranks - 1 screen (5 showings)
National Treasure - 2 screens (8 showings)
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie - 1 screen (4 showings)
Finding Neverland - 1 screen (5 showings)
The Polar Express - 1 screen (5 showings)
The Incredibles - 2 screens (7 showings)
After the Sunset - 3 showings
Saw - 2 showings
Seed of Chucky, Shall We Dance? - 1 showing each

Nice screen count for Ocean's Twelve!

AMC Mercado 20, Santa Clara, CA:

New
Blade: Trinity - 2 screens (11 showings)
Ocean's Twelve - 3 screens in the afternoon, 4 at night (17 showings)

Holdovers
Alexander - 1 screen (4 showings)
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason - 1 screen (5 showings)
Christmas With the Kranks - 1 screen (6 showings)
Closer - 2 screens (11 showings)
Finding Neverland - 1 screen (6 showings)
The Incredibles - 3 screens in the afternoon, 2 at night (13 showings)
National Treasure - 2 screens (10 showings)
The Polar Express - 1 screen (5 showings)
Ray - 1 screen (4 showings)
Sideways - 1 screen (5 showings)
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie - 1 screen (5 showings)
After the Sunset - 2 showings at night

2 Blade's
3 Oceans

Blade Trinity at midnight. About 60-70 people there, pretty good. About the same size midnight crowd as The Day After Tomorrow, Van Helsing, and The Village. They've never done midnight screenings for movies that opened under $50M so who know where Blade is headed. Anways, after about 13-14 commercials (NOT EXAGGERATING) the trailers were ok. I saw some new ones (xXx2, Amityville Horror, and The New World [BOMB]) and White Noise for the billioneth time. Sadly no Batman Begins. The movie was a let down, would've been crap had Van Wilder not saved it. The movie didn't really have any point or purpose even the big conclusion was weak. People were talking about how funny Van Wilder was, I didn't hear anything else.

Here are the final counts at my theater.

Oceans Twelve - 4 screens (plus two interlocked prints), 19 showtimes.
Blade III - 3 screens (plus one interlocked prints), 14 showtimes.
Bandido - 1 screen (whatever the hell that is).

AMC Hoffman Centre 22
Suburban VA

New
Blade: Trinity - 3 screens (13 showings)
Ocean's Twelve - 4 screens (16 showings)
Spanglish - 1 screen (1 showing; sneak preview Saturday)

Holdovers
Alexander - 1 screen (2 showings; screen shared with The Incredibles)
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason - 1 screen (5 showings)
Christmas With the Kranks - 2 screens during day, 1 screen at night (7 showings)
Closer - 2 screens (9 showings)
Finding Neverland - 2 screens during day, 1 screen at night (7 showings)
The Incredibles - 2 screens during day, 1 screen at night (6 showings)
Kinsey - 1 screen (4 showings)
National Treasure - 1 screen during day, 2 screens at night (6 showings)
The Polar Express - 1 screen (5 showings)
Ray - 1 screen (4 showings)
Sideways - 1 screen (4 showings)
SpongeBob SquarePants - 1 screen (5 showings)

Blade Trinity

12:15 pm

23 people in a 255 seater (Pretty good for the first show of the day)

Trailers:

Darkness, looks creepy
Wedding Crashers, looks funny
The Amityville Horror
The new Terrence Malick movie, looks good

The opening line is funny. Somewhat slow paced at times. This movie should have had a very good main villain. Instead the dracula/bad dude is terrible. Ryan Reynolds is funny and is the most interesting character in the movie. Even the secondary villains, more often than not, are trying to be funny than scary. Time for this franchise to close up shop. If not a home run, at least a single.

Grade: C+

Quick Blade report.

So Far, we are doing very well, with our first show (1:00) attracted 130 patrons, just about equal with Princess Diaries 2 and White Chicks. Expect a 6 million opening day if these right true.

Also, we do have a Spanglish sneak as well. I will be the opener on Friday, so I will give you the early reports.

I thought i throw this in here.....

AUSTRALIA: Ocean's 12 - Thursday

Opening day for O12 here in Australia and this is easily the busiest day since Spiderman 2.....eclipsing Bridget Jones 2.

It's currently 8:30pm and all sessions for O12 are 90% Full or higher in all Village Cinemas in Melbourne.....the 9:15 and 9:30 sessions are also filling up fast.......

Bridget Jones had about 80%+ at about this time.....and if all things goes well during the week, it should have no problems grossing more than AUD$6m....

One only needs to look at how the original opened to see how potent Oceans can be.....it debut with AUD$5,413,522 which counts as the #30 All-Time......matching Bridget Jones 2's $5,588,705.

Addin the must-see factor and a higher screen count......and what you have is a stronger opening surely. I wouldn't be too surprised if O12 exceeds Spiderman's 2 $7,132,602.

Sequels do quite well in Australia on openings

X-Men 2 - $6,026,988 vs. X-Men 1 - $3,609,332
Mission Impossible 2 - $6,393,912 vs. $3,892,745
Charlie's Angels 2 - $5,838,921 vs. Charlie's Angels 1 - $4,048,118
2 Fast 2 Furious $5,727,429 vs. Fast & The Furious - $3,300,893
Austin Powers 2 $5,765,239 vs. Austin Powers 1 - $1,083,336
Bridget Jones 2 - $5,588,705 vs. Bridget Jones 1 - $3,926,141
Mummy Returns - $5,438,989 vs. The Mummy - $3,814,054
The Bourne Supremacy - $4,880,391 vs. The Bourne Identity - $2,774,959

Isn't quite freaky that all of the sequels seem to open around $5-6m....

The average increase is roughly 40-45%......applying that to O12......we could be looking at an $8m+ opening

I'll stay conservative and project a $7m opening

@Arch

Where did Shrek 2 actually end up on Australian all-time charts?

My local theater, which has 10 screens, is giving the blockbuster treatment to Ocean's Twelve this weekend with 2 screens. Of course, technically it is kind of a blockbuster, but I'm surprised my theater did that.

By the way, I'm seeing Blade: Trinity tonight. Report when I return.

Well, the good news is that Blade: Trinity sold out at my theater tonight. The bad news ... it sold out before I got the tickets. Bastards! I was soo excited to go, too. Tomorrow night.

The irony of a poster with a Blade Trinity avatar still having not seen the movie

Yeah, I know. If it weren't for school, I would have been at the midnight show on Tuesday night.

#2 behind Titanic and only the 2nd movie to pass AUD$50m behind Titanic as well........it is one position ahead of ROTK....

Top 50 Gross in Australia

Rank Title Dist Year
Date $ AUD

nothing

1 TITANIC Fox 1997 18 Dec 57,642,943
2 SHREK 2 UIP/Uni 2004 17 Jun 50,121,453
3 LOTR: THE RETURN OF THE KING Road 2003 26 Dec 49,331,621
4 CROCODILE DUNDEE Hoyts 1986 30 Apr 47,707,045
5 LOTR: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING Road 2001 26 Dec 47,035,700
6 LOTR: THE TWO TOWERS Road 2002 26 Dec 45,588,777
7 HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE WB 2001 29 Nov 42,310,037
8 STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE Fox 1999 03 Jun 38,828,310
9 FINDING NEMO BVI 2003 28 Aug 37,389,428
10 HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS WB 2002 28 Nov 37,379,563
11 BABE: THE GALLANT PIG UIP 1995 14 Dec 36,776,544
12 E.T.: THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL* UIP 1982 01 Nov 33,831,299
13 STAR WARS: ATTACK OF THE CLONES Fox 2002 16 May 33,811,334
14 THE MATRIX RELOADED WB 2003 16 May 33,610,347
15 HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN WB 2004 10 Jun 33,030,534
16 JURASSIC PARK UIP 1993 02 Sep 33,002,776
17 SHREK UIP 2001 21 Jun 32,045,840
18 GLADIATOR UIP 2000 04 May 31,092,305
19 SPIDER-MAN Col 2002 06 Jun 30,815,910
20 FORREST GUMP UIP 1994 17 Nov 30,562,133
21 STAR WARS* Fox 1977 27 Oct 29,649,700
22 INDEPENDENCE DAY Fox 1996 29 Aug 29,496,567
23 THE SIXTH SENSE BVI 1999 07 Oct 29,298,667
24 MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING Road 2002 24 Oct 27,979,334
25 MOULIN ROUGE Fox 2001 24 May 27,678,121
26 THE LION KING BVI 1994 25 Aug 27,082,555
27 MRS DOUBTFIRE Fox 1993 16 Dec 26,241,675
28 PRETTY WOMAN BVI 1990 03 May 26,156,134
29 MONSTERS, INC. BVI 2001 26 Dec 25,621,308
30 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL BVI 2003 11 Sep 25,429,449
31 CROCODILE DUNDEE II Hoyts 1988 26 May 24,916,805
32 SPIDER-MAN 2 Col/Tri 2004 30 Jun 24,263,992
33 SAVING PRIVATE RYAN UIP 1998 19 Nov 24,172,708
34 TROY WB 2004 13 May 23,447,161
35 TWISTER UIP 1996 30 May 23,438,404
36 THE FULL MONTY Fox 1997 16 Oct 23,197,810
37 THE MATRIX Road 1999 08 Apr 23,104,709
38 MEN IN BLACK Col 1997 11 Sep 22,789,539
39 WHAT WOMEN WANT Road 2001 08 Jan 22,533,750
40 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 UIP 2000 01 Jun 22,478,131
41 BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY UIP 2001 26 Jul 22,404,421
42 AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME Road 1999 17 Jun 22,380,168
43 OCEAN'S ELEVEN Road 2002 10 Jan 22,234,443
44 STRICTLY BALLROOM Ronin 1992 20 Aug 21,760,400
45 FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL REP 1994 05 May 21,471,077
46 GHOST UIP 1990 25 Oct 21,311,049
47 MEET THE PARENTS UIP 2000 26 Dec 21,221,469
48 LIAR LIAR
UIP 1997 12 Jun 21,117,778
49 NOTTING HILL Poly 1999 10 Jun 20,831,399
50 SISTER ACT BVI 1992 19 Nov 20,505,775