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Weekend Estimates by Klady – Super Bowl Sunday 09

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5 Responses to “Weekend Estimates by Klady – Super Bowl Sunday 09”

  1. Joe Straat says:

    Slumdog Millionaires? You mean they made a sequel all ready?

  2. Joe Leydon says:

    OK, let me preface everything I’m about to say with this: I realy enjoyed Frost/Nixon. Unlike a lot of people who post here, I think it deserved every Oscar nom it received (and a few it didn’t). BUT: Am I misreading the chart, or is there a possibility that it eventually might get out-grossed by the considerably less-hyped Last Chance Harvey (another movie, BTW, that I like) if word of mouth keeps the latter in theaters?

  3. IOIOIOI says:

    Joe: It seems that way. It’s rather funny that the Academy has once again decided to go with five films that are not even close to being earners. Everyone can go on about Mumbai grossing 100m, but that’s not a guarantee. Heck… Button… is the only one who made money and look at it now. DOA.
    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science: Do not make a great movie that earns a lot of money. If so; we will ignore it, and nominate a film that’s less great out of spite! Sure it will only gross 15m, but it’s ART! You are commerce. Commerce bad.

  4. chris says:

    Kim Voynar: Can we please agree that “the media” is a meaningless phrase to toss around casually? And that, in fact, you are part of it?

  5. LexG says:

    HEY LOU Y. CADDYSHACK THOMPSON:
    I saw Underworld: …Lycans, and kinda liked it too. You know what’s interesting about the movie? Like, yeah, it’s not very good, and it’s kinda drab and clunky as a genre entry (that monochrome sheen even put ME in a stupor)…
    but somehow in the middle of that, you get Sheen and Nighy acting like they’re in fucking BECKET or something, acting their asses off with this awesome, stagey, balls-out serious-thespian performances… in the middle of a vampires vs. wolves movie.
    Not sure if the everyday viewer appreciates that kinda thing, but I was kind of pleasantly bemused, if not in awe, that two great actors who could’ve phoned it in on a slumming third-entry horror movie, upped their game and performed with their trademark skill and dedication.

Leonard Klady's Friday Estimates
Friday Screens % Chg Cume
Title Gross Thtr % Chgn Cume
Venom 33 4250 NEW 33
A Star is Born 15.7 3686 NEW 15.7
Smallfoot 3.5 4131 -46% 31.3
Night School 3.5 3019 -63% 37.9
The House Wirh a Clock in its Walls 1.8 3463 -43% 49.5
A Simple Favor 1 2408 -50% 46.6
The Nun 0.75 2264 -52% 111.5
Hell Fest 0.6 2297 -70% 7.4
Crazy Rich Asians 0.6 1466 -51% 167.6
The Predator 0.25 1643 -77% 49.3
Also Debuting
The Hate U Give 0.17 36
Shine 85,600 609
Exes Baggage 75,900 62
NOTA 71,300 138
96 61,600 62
Andhadhun 55,000 54
Afsar 45,400 33
Project Gutenberg 36,000 17
Love Yatri 22,300 41
Hello, Mrs. Money 22,200 37
Studio 54 5,300 1
Loving Pablo 4,200 15
3-Day Estimates Weekend % Chg Cume
No Good Dead 24.4 (11,230) NEW 24.4
Dolphin Tale 2 16.6 (4,540) NEW 16.6
Guardians of the Galaxy 7.9 (2,550) -23% 305.8
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4.8 (1,630) -26% 181.1
The Drop 4.4 (5,480) NEW 4.4
Let's Be Cops 4.3 (1,570) -22% 73
If I Stay 4.0 (1,320) -28% 44.9
The November Man 2.8 (1,030) -36% 22.5
The Giver 2.5 (1,120) -26% 41.2
The Hundred-Foot Journey 2.5 (1,270) -21% 49.4