This Weekend at the Boxoffice: 2007.May.07

[Hand of Evil]

I don't think it is a surprise Spider-Man is number one at the boxoffice but records were broke! I think it was the weakess of the 3 and it is the pirates life for me, so as I have been saying this is going to be the bumper season at the box!

Note Hot Fuzz, still in the top 10 and has a very good average per show.

 

[Mark CMG]

I don't think it is a surprise Spider-Man is number one at the boxoffice (. . .)

Any guesses how long it will remain at number one?

 

[Taelorn76]

Any guesses how long it will remain at number one?

Until Pirates comes out later this month

 

[Hand of Evil]

Until Pirates comes out later this month

Nope, it will be out of that spot in two weeks...Shrek the Third is out on the 18th.

 

[Taelorn76]

For some reason I don't think Shrek will knock it out. not sure why just a feeling

 

[Hand of Evil]

For some reason I don't think Shrek will knock it out. not sure why just a feeling

It is all based on the drop but two weekends is a long time to remain number one this summer.

Numbers for Shrek:
Shrek 2 opening weekend 5/19/2004: $108,037,878 - 4,163 Theaters
Shrek opening weekend 05/16/2001: $42,347,760 - 3,587 Theaters

Numbers for Spider-Man:
Spider-Man opening weekend 05/02/2002: $114,844,116 - 3,615 Theaters
2 Spider-Man 2 opening weekend 06/30/2004: $88,156,227 - 4,152 Theaters
3 Spider-Man 3 opening weekend 05/04/2007: $148,000,000 - 4,252 Theaters

Numbers for Pirates:
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest opening weekend 07/07/2006: $135,634,554 - 4,133 Theaters
2 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl opening weekend 07/09/2003: $46,630,690 - 3,269 Theaters

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Nope, it will be out of that spot in two weeks...Shrek the Third is out on the 18th.

I will have to go with this as well. Spiddy 3 even if it does well will be down to $75 million in two weeks and more likely down to $50 Million (We are still looking at $400 million overall so not bad). Shrek 3 should post $50-$75 opening weekend even if it does badly.

 

[Sir Brennen]

Also note that the number of screens a movie is playing in has an impact on its opening weekend numbers. And with several block busters coming up this summer, more opening screens means fewer screens for movies that have been out a week or two. So that slants things in the favor of the newer movie. Even if only one person sees the new movie on a given screen, it's potentially 200 fewer less people for the older movie if it had filled up all the seats in that theater.

So, who knows :\

 

[sckeener]

this is a summer where I think a 'season pass' would be a good thing.

I'd love to see some of these movies a few times, but I'm not going to because I want to save my money for X movie....where X is all these great movies.

 

[Mark CMG]

this is a summer where I think a 'season pass' would be a good thing.

You might be on to something.