Sunday Numbers
The Dark Knight will do about $151.7 million by tonight. (Maybe more than that as the N.Y. Times is reporting $155 million and change.) It made $47 million yesterday, and about $66 million on Friday (counting Thursday-Friday overnight haul of $18. 5 million). Mamma Mia! did $9.8 million on Saturday, and will end up with about $27.6 million by tonight.
Hancock will make about $14.1 million -- now at $191.6 million, sure to pass $200 million. Journey to the Center of the Earth, off 43% from last weekend, will end up with about $12 million. Hellboy II was absolutely killed by The Dark Knight, dropping a whopping 71% from last weekend, and this weekend taking it a lousy $10 million.
WALL*E will earn $9.8 milllon by tonight -- it's now at $182 million, will barely eke out $200 million. The seventh-place Space Chimps will make $7.3 million -- disaster.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on July 20, 2008 at 11:30 AM
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Chase Kahn says ...
Awesome...we can't have the mess that is SPIDER-MAN 3 as the #1 opening of all-time.
Two different sites (BOX OFFICE MOJO and FANTASYMOGULS) are saying DARK KNIGHT is estimated at $155 million...
Poor HELLBOY II, although it got what it deserved in my mind, I didn't think it was very good. The first is certainly superior...
Posted by Chase Kahn at July 20, 2008 12:00 PM
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Kristopher Tapley says ...
Can't believe I may have pinned this opening to within 2 or 3 million. I sucked at box office estimates.
Posted by Kristopher Tapley at July 20, 2008 12:12 PM
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DarienStyles says ...
Interesting numbers.
Posted by DarienStyles at July 20, 2008 12:13 PM
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D.Z. says ...
Kahn: I'm still not sure why people hate Spider-Man 3, especially considering how equally campy it was in the first film.
Posted by D.Z. at July 20, 2008 2:10 PM
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CinemaPhreek says ...
Box Office Mojo just re-crunched the numbers to confirm their $155M.
Wonder if everyone will be wrong again re: Sunday drop-off. At the begining of the week many thought $100M was the top possible number.
Posted by CinemaPhreek at July 20, 2008 2:46 PM
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Chicago48 says ...
Will Smith is Still THE MAN!
Posted by Chicago48 at July 20, 2008 3:30 PM
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BurmaShave says ...
D.Z., there aren't two musical numbers in the first SPIDER-MAN, not to mention part 3 didn't have Dafoe's hamminess to save it.
Posted by BurmaShave at July 20, 2008 3:47 PM
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D.Z. says ...
Burma: V for Vendetta had that godawful Benny Hill-inspired commentary, and people seemed to think that was genius.
Posted by D.Z. at July 20, 2008 4:26 PM
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CitizenKanedforChewingGum says ...
Daniel, you truly do pull things out buried deep within your ass. Hats off.
Posted by CitizenKanedforChewingGum at July 20, 2008 5:11 PM
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Mgmax says ...
I went to see Hellboy 2 so I wouldn't be one of the lemmings in line for a show of Batman 6 four hours from now. The theater, of course, was showing B-6 on five screens, and over the course of the weekend, one men's room had broken down entirely, while the other had a quarter inch of standing water on the floor. I look forward to seeing it in isolation and relative comfort on some Tuesday afternoon a couple of weeks from now.
Posted by Mgmax at July 20, 2008 5:43 PM
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actionman says ...
Very cool to see than Hancock will finish around $225 domestic. I hope they make a sequel.
Posted by actionman at July 20, 2008 8:10 PM
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BurmaShave says ...
That broken men's room was immediately converted into a theater for another showing of DARK KNIGHT
Posted by BurmaShave at July 20, 2008 9:27 PM
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