1. Meet the Fockers - $11,800,000 - -0.8% - $132,247,000
2. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events - $4,430,000 - -11.8% - $84,455,000
3. The Aviator - $3,760,000 - +47.5% - $23,830,000
4. Fat Albert - $2,870,000 - -13.2% - $25,992,000
5. Ocean's Twelve - $2,785,000 - +0.4% - $100,390,000
6. National Treasure - $2,320,000 - +21.5% - $150,065,000
7. The Polar Express - $2,045,000 - -10.5% - $151,550,000
8. Spanglish - $1,610,000 - -9.8% - $26,345,000
9. The Phantom of the Opera - $1,530,000 - +16.8% - $12,936,000
10. The Incredibles - $1,400,000 - +3.7% - $248,890,000
11. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - $985,000 - -24.5% - $11,359,000
12. Darkness - $840,000 - -37.1% - $12,803,000
Beyond the Sea - $415,000 - +71.1% - $992,000

Maybe BJ is right on MTF

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Weird numbers, The Aviator had a 60% increase?! :?

Could MTF get over 45 mil. this weekend?

Very likely. I wonder how much it'll increase today :?

In 1999 all adult movies increased over 100% on Saturday, but they also decreased on Friday though :? I would guess about 75%.

I thought everyone predicted these big drops all around. I don't see no freakin' drops. Mostly steady.

It was based on 1999.

Maybe the decreases had to do with the fact that the New Year's Eve 1999 was a more "important" one because of the beginning of a new millenium. Maybe more people were partying or busy with something else? :? I don't kno, there must be an explanation for these numbers. I am looking forward to BOM numbers, maybe they'll be different.

Looking at the cumulative totals, what do you think? Discuss.

1. Meet the Fockers - $133,200,000 - Incredible
2. A Series of Unfortunate Events - $84,400,000 - what were people expecting.
3. The Aviator - $25,100,000 - not sure - is this still limited.
4. Fat Albert - $27,000,000 - go Fat Albert - better than some thought?
5. Ocean's Twelve - $100,700,000 - forget its start date - disappointing at all, what did the first one get, even though sequals usually don't do better.
6. National Treasure - $150,500,000 - keeps moving along
7. The Polar Express - $151,700,000 - keeps moving along.
8. Spanglish - $26,600,000 - how is this for Sandler?
9. The Phantom of the Opera - $12,700,000 - Whatever to the haters, I knew this wouldn't do close to Chicago numbers or even 100 million.
10. The Incredibles - $249,000,000 - Is coming short of 300 disappointing, maybe just alittle.

As I said before, according to Variety, Warner Bros paid $19 million to acquire North America distribution rights.

If this movie can gross $38+ million in US, it is good.

thease numbers are amazing increases or very samll decreases all across the board does anyone thin that the fridays could muffle the saturday increase :?:

That's just plain awesome. No significant drops. Though I have doubts that the increase will be big today, it's still some nice numbers. Meet the Fockers might pass the original one this weekend!

Friday: $12,100,000
Saturday: $22,200,000 (+85%)
Sunday: $14,430,000 (-35%)

Weekend: $48,730,000
Total Gross: $169,830,000

That increase might be too much, though, since it did not have a big decrease on Friday. But still...

if thats true than new years day should have affected the films also. This could be a big wknd 8)

Yes. Most movies will not have the huge increase percentage wise on Saturday. They will increase a little more than a normal Saturday for this time of the year. I think MTF will still get to around 20 mil. on Saturday 8)

even with a 150% increase today the film will have a saturday over 30m well maybe I was right :? I dont know :? this year has been incredible wow 8)

You are right. These numbers are great and a good way to close out 2004

In 1999 most adult movies increases on Saturday was over 150%. So 85% could be right.

:? only an 85% increase :? dont get me wrong thats still an awesome wknd number showing that the increase I was predicting was indeed right but an 85% does not seem posible. I would go for the 120%-150% range even with the friday increase I dont know how big it was but it couldnt have afected the sauturday increase that much Anyway they films increase and Im dancing with joy

I dont know :? comeing into the wknd I thought for shure if the film fell 35%-40% on friday that a 200% increase on saturday would be close to a lock considering its a comedy and the only comedy in 1999 decreased 45% on friday and increased around 240%-260% on saturday. That would be Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. I expect an increase today in the 140%-160% area for MTF 8)

Even it does a 100% increase on Saturday, it could pass 50 mil.

The average increase in 1999 was about 150%. But that was after an average 25%-30% drop. If it doesn't drop, which it didn't, I would expect an increase of 80%-110% on Saturday.

Well this is waht the wknd for MTF could look like, most may take this to be unlikely but i think it is very posible 8)

Fri: 12.1m +6%

Sat: 30.65m +145%

Sun: 20.84m -32%

Wknd: 63.59m +59.5% from last wknd

8)

I was not going by the average i was going by what the majestic and Deuce Bigolo did because they were more comedy genre than the other films in the top ten. Thats how I came up with that massive 205% increase I gave the film on my wknd prediction which is obviously an under prediction now. I now say 145% increase today, that subtracts about 60% of my origonal 205% increase. More than i needed to subtact considering it only increased 6% yesterday but fare enough all the same.
you based your prediction of around a 140%-160% saturday increase i based mine of a 200%+ saturday increase so the oucomes will be very differnet no matter what.