AOTC # 5 for the weekend!

[Darth23]

Top 10 Final Numbers:

1) Scooby-Doo - 54.16
2) The Bourne Identity - 27.12
3) Windtalkers - 14.52
4) The Sum Of All Fears - 13.46
5) Star Wars: Ep.Ii-Attack Clones - 9.44
6) Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya... - 8.87
7) Spider-Man - 7.52
8) Bad Company - 5.87
9) Spirit: Stallion Of Cimarron - 5.22
10) Undercover Brother - 4.424

[Lady Vader]

Yay! It's still in the top 5! Hell, it's still in the top 10! :D

[Darth23]

The early estimate put it at number 6 behind Ya- Ya.

[flagg]

They were wrong. Fan day worked! Take that stupid Ya Ya women! :)

[Jedi Master Carr]

Cool, man were those estamites bad yesterday, Scooby Doo was 2 million high and Ya Ya was high too, but AOTC was low so all is good in the world :)

[Sanis Prent]

I can't believe it beat Ya Ya. I mean...if that is true, that means that NOBODY outside the state of alabama is watching it. We are regularly selling out shows to Ya Ya...and I can only recall selling out a Star Wars show twice.

[Admiral Lebron]

Ya know ... if they added all the cut footage of the yoda figth and released it again it would get a lot more money.

[imported_QuiGonJ]

YAY

[JonathanLB]

Just the news I wanted to hear -- take that estimate sites.

I knew it would clear $9M, yet all of these stupid "experts" who "know the box office" (not as well as most of us, though, regardless of their status) said it would make like $7.8 million or at most $8.5M, lol. Yeah whatever...

This gross is quite pleasing. Makes you think if we had hit $15.5 million like we thought was possible last weekend, this weekend could have been over $10M.

That is very nice, though, bye bye Ya-Ya, stupid POS.

That movie hasn't sold out ANY showings at Evergreen, AOTC still nearly sells out weekend showings. I guess people in our area must not be stupid, lol. Only a fool would WANT to go see a movie that idiotic. It was so painful I nearly slit my wrists mid-way through. lol.

[CMJ]

"Spider-Man" is STILL in more theatres, which I find remarkable. It's declines are also lower every weekend...I continue to be amazed by the webslinger.

[JonathanLB]

It shouldn't be in more theaters. It's really idiotic.

It's either the theaters being stupid or Lucasfilm being stupid, or Fox, whatever.

When you have a film slightly underperform pre-release expectations as AOTC has (I'd say they expected a solid $400M...), then you need to tell the exhibitors, "Hey, ok, our mistake, we are renegotiating the terms to make them more favorable for you." That way they keep the movie longer. Better to have it playing and you get SOME money than NOT playing and NO money at all. Someone is screwing up here, or the theaters are just being asses, either one.

[JMK]

I'm sure theaters have no problem in removing AotC, just because there's no way any of them like Lucas' stipulations.

[Jedi Master Carr]

Also it made a little more than a million for Monday, though it fell into 6th place but it is not far behind Sum of All Fears. Does anybody think it will pass Sum of All Fears next weekend and perhaps even Windtalkers (if it falls badly I think it has a chance) that would be the only way it would stay in the top 5. I think it will be no lower than 7th for the weekend but I have a feeling it will end up 6th.

[JMK]

It'll definetly pass SoaF, but I don't know if it will be this weekend. SoaF will have to fall an awful lot, and AotC would have to hold firm at 8M for it to even have a shot at passing it.