This Weekend at the Boxoffice: 2006.06.12

[Hand of Evil]

Cars number 1, saw that one coming, thought the Omen would have been better.

Estimated ticket sales for June 9-11

1. “Cars,” $62.8 million
2. “The Break-Up,” $20.5 million
3. “X-Men: The Last Stand,” $15.55 million
4. “The Omen,” $15.45 million
5. “Over the Hedge,” $10.301 million
6. “The Da Vinci Code,” $10.3 million
7. “A Prairie Home Companion,” $4.7 million
8. “Mission: Impossible III,” $3 million
9. “RV,” $2 million
10. “Poseidon,” $1.8 million

Time to keep track of the movies I see this year but think I will do it a different way...anything I go to that I feel is a waste of time is a 5 or below, 6 not a complete waste, 7 a good two+ hours spent, an 8 a good two hours I will tell my friends about, 9 something I will consider seeing again, 10 will see again.

Lowered X-Men, thought it was broderline 8 but it was not better than Underworld to me.

Rank 10/10: NA
Rank 09/10: V For Vendetta
Rank 08/10: NA
Rank 07/10: Underworld: Evolution - Lucky Number Slevin - X-Men: The Last Stand
Rank 06/10: Bloodrayne
Waste of time: Slither

 

[Brown Jenkin]

The Omen made 12 Million on its Tuesday release and is at 35 Million so far. That Tuesday release messed up its numbers. I am not sure what its wednesday numbers were but I am sure they would have put it in at least third if not second place if they were counting the first two days of release and not weekend numbers.

 

[Fast Learner]

Cars was a bit short of my prediction, but it still severely kicked X-Men's butt, as is appropriate in a 1st wk vs. 3rd wk release.

 

[Lazybones]

Thank god for Netflix; none of those films interest me in the slightest, although I may rent X-Men when it comes out on DVD.

The only movie that's on my radar to see is An Inconvenient Truth, which scored 1.4 million on 122 screens (compared to just under 4,000 screens for Cars, and 1,700 screens for the 10th place film, Poseidon).* I think we'll see AIT break the top 10 next week.

Overall, the summer movie season has seemed pretty mediocre thus far, IMO.

* All figures from BoxOfficeMojo.com

 

[Hand of Evil]

This weekend will be interesting and may see all three of the top ones from this weekend drop out. You have The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift (2Fast did 50 mill its openeing weekend), Nacho Libre (comedy), the Lake House (chick flick), and Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties. Think you will see the following breakdown from the last week.

1. Fast & Furious - 30 to 40 mill
2. Nacho Libre - 20 mill
3. Cars - 17 mil
4. Lake House - 8 mill
5. X-Men - 7 mill

 

[Fast Learner]

The only movie that's on my radar to see is An Inconvenient Truth, which scored 1.4 million on 122 screens (compared to just under 4,000 screens for Cars, and 1,700 screens for the 10th place film, Poseidon).* I think we'll see AIT break the top 10 next week.

I don't know if it will break the top ten, but I will say that it was excellent. Sobering yet entertaining, and it finishes on an important and very valid hopeful note. We did manage to change our actions and stop damaging the ozone layer (allowing it to repair itself), and we can in fact do the same with global warming. I hope folks don't avoid it due to the general negativity of the subject or a concern that it's dry, as the film manages to do a fine job of overcoming both.