REVISED Sunday?!?! Much higher!!

[JonathanLB]

ShowBizData reports a much higher gross for AOTC on Sunday than originally reported or estimated.

Spider-Man looks roughly the same, BUT:

1 STAR WARS: EPISODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES 20TH CENTURY FOX 3,161 18,532,000 5,863 191,207,000

That is more than $2 million above the $16M number or whatever that I heard. Saturday was $18.1 million, so Sunday was in fact higher according to ShowBizData...

But they said the actual 4-day total is $60.0 million, so Monday was lower than expected I suppose? I'm confused, but anyway..

Spider-Man with $35.8M, also not as much as they had estimated. Dang they are inaccurate lately.

[CMJ]

Boxofficemojo has the weekend lower though...hmmmm strange this is. Meditate on this I will. :)

[JonathanLB]

Yeah I noticed that, so just another weird occurence, haha. ;)

We seem to get a lot of those. Or... maybe Saturday was lower than they estimated, or something?

[CMJ]

Maybe Monday was MUCH lower than first thought....

[imported_QuiGonJ]

Don't see how since the theater I went to was loaded... but whatever...

[JonathanLB]

I just do not get their charts. They have actuals for the 4-day period but not for the 3-day?

See I would be fine with knowing that it made MORE than expected on the weekend and less than expected on Monday. Monday is NOT the damn weekend and I don't care, so if it fell only 36% or whatever on the three-day-to-three-day, that's what I want to know. Their numbers there are WRONG, because they are studio estimates, not actuals.

The four-day gross they claim is actual, supposedly, but we'll see about that because I want to see exact totals down to dollars, dangit, not 60.0.

[CMJ]

Yeah....waiting for yahoo and boxofficeguru...they post exact numbers. Hmmmm I wonder how long I'm gonna wait around, I'd planned on going to the movies....

[JonathanLB]

I saw Insomnia, btw, I agree with the critics. I really enjoyed it. It doesn't get my 4 star rating, though. It comes pretty close, really close actually to a low-four star rating. I'm giving it 3.5, or basically what would be an 88/100 (90 would be an A-, or four stars).

It is definitely worth seeing I thought, not sure if you did see it yet. Then I gotta see About A Boy still, so I hope it is good. I want to go see AOTC again very soon, like... tomorrow.

[Doc Milo]

All these conflicting numbers are just further proof of the box office conspiracy! Right Buff :)

(Where or where is Jedi3167 when you need him to explain this stuff! -- oops I said his name.....)

[JonathanLB]

Well not conspiracy, just bad predicting. It's funny they could be pretty close to accurate even while screwing up a lot. For instance, if the Sunday number I saw there is right, then they messed it up by about (-) $2.5 million, and then they messed up Monday's by probably (+) $3.5 million or something and that's maybe why the estimate was too high.

[Dutchy]

AOTC's actuals are:

Fri: $12,787,965
Sat: $18,560,664
Sun: $16,531,903
Mon: $12,123,417

3-day total: $47,880,532 (down 40.2%)
4-day toal: $60,003,949

[Dutchy]

So your ShowBizData report was wrong, Jonathan.

[JonathanLB]

Why did they change what they had, which you say is right, to a wrong number? That makes no sense. What the hell do I pay these people for anyway? It is such a ripoff service, I swear. After AOTC is out of theaters, I will cancel it. I've been paying for a while...

Variety is a good price, only $60 per year, which is worth it for me considering I use them for my research on books and whatnot.

40% drop, well... could have been worse. After the 48% Friday drop, 40% looks awesome by comparison, lol.

[Jedi Master Carr]

Those aren't bad numbers it held up better than Spiderman which made 10 million less on a 4 day weekend, and the theaters added screens for it, I am sure the theaters owners are mad at Sony, they probably could have made more money from added screens from SW but Lucas won't let it happen.

[JonathanLB]

That is not true actually, NO screens were added for Spider-Man. It gained about 200 theaters, but 0 screens. What they did was take prints from larger theaters that had it showing on many screens, then transfered the prints to new markets. So if one theater had four prints, maybe by this time, the fourth weekend, they wanted to go ahead and drop two of them, or just one of them even, then Sony took the print back and gave it back to another theater that didn't have the chance to play the film before.

[BUFFJEDI]

All these conflicting numbers are just further proof of the box office conspiracy! Right Buff :lol

Mum's the word Doc, Mum's the word :)

[Doc Milo]

I thougth Grease is the world, Buff. Oh well. :smokin

[BUFFJEDI]

:lol Oh i feel a show tune coming on :)