Box Office Archive for February, 2007
Friday Estimates by Klady
Title | Distributor | Gross * | Theaters | % Change | Cume
Ghost Rider | Sony | 6 | 3620 | -61% | 65
The Number 23 | New Line | 5.8 | 2759 | New | 5.8
Reno 911!: Miami | Fox | 4.1 | 2702 | New | 4.1
Bridge to Terabithia | BV | 3.5 | 3139 | -44% | 36.2
Norbit | Par | 2.9 | 3145 | -35% | 67.8
Music and Lyrics | WB | 2.6 | 2955 | -37% | 26.7
Breach | Uni | 1.9 | 1493 | -36% | 16.2
Amazing Grace | IDP | 1.4 | 791 | New | 1.4
Daddy’s Little Girls | Lions Gate | 1.4 | 2111 | -53% | 21.7
The Astronaut Farmer | WB | 1.3 | 2155 | New | 1.3
Also Debuting
The Abandoned | Lions Gate | 0.23 | 1000
Starter for 10 | Picturehouse | 13,000 | 20
Gray Matters | FreeStyle | 8,900 | 15
Klady's 4-Day Pres Weekend Estimates
Notable: Lou Lumenick tells the world that Alien v Predator and Freddy v Jason were actually the highest openers without screening before Ghost Rider. Noted.
MoBO4U
Okay… so if, as a blog commenter wrote, Bridge to Samantha Stevens’ Daughter (aka Bridge To Terebithia) actually cost $30 million… or even $40 million or $50 million, a $28 million 4-day weekend – for a kids movie, likely to signal a film that cracks $100 million – will make the movie a major profit center. (Far more so than An Inconvenient Truth, which Peter Bart oddly claimed a few weeks ago is Paramount’s “Paramount’s single most profitable release.”)
Meanwhile, February has become
Klady's Friday Estimates
There is so much to say today and so little time.
Ghost screenings worked out burningly well for Ghost Rider.
Terabithia
Klady's Weekend Estimates
And other Oscar nominated films still in release…
The Queen | Miramax | 2.6 (1,400) | -35% | 1850 | 45.4
The Departed | WB | 2.4 (1,630) | -30% | 1453 | 128.7
Letter from Iwo Jima | WB | 1.7 (2,400) | -7% | 720 | 7.5
Babel | Par Vantage | 1.7 (1,530) | -35% | 1090 | 29.7
Notes on a Scandal | Fox Searchlight | 1.7 (2,430) | -36% | 682 | 11.7
The Last King of Scotland | Fox Searchlight | 1.3 (2,410) | -24% | 528 | 9.6
Children of Men | Uni | 1.2 (1,410) | -46% | 829 | 32.8
Blood Diamond | WB | .91 (1,430) | -26% | 635 | 54
Volver | Sony Class/Seville | .66 (1,020) | -43% | 644 | 10.8
Happy Feet | WB | .55 (960) | -40% | 575 | 192.7
Venus | Miramax | .37 (3,820) | 7% | 96 | 1.2