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Friday's Numbers from boxofficemojo.com

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Rank* Title (Click to view chart) Friday 12/3 (Estimates) Saturday 12/4 Sunday 12/5 Monday 12/6 1 NATIONAL TREASURE   3,243 $5,100,000 276.3% / $1,573 <nobr>$98,208,000 / 15</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 2 CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS   3,416 $3,200,000 339.6% / $937 <nobr>$36,963,000 / 10</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 3 THE POLAR EXPRESS   3,650 $2,800,000 159% / $767 <nobr>$88,150,000 / 24</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 4 CLOSER   476 $2,700,000 -- / $5,672 <nobr>$2,700,000 / 1</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 5 THE INCREDIBLES   3,178 $2,350,000 293.5% / $739 <nobr>$219,193,000 / 29</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 6 THE SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE   3,307 $2,200,000 461% / $665 <nobr>$62,753,000 / 15</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 7 ALEXANDER   2,445 $1,450,000 119.3% / $593 <nobr>$26,381,000 / 10</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 8 BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON   2,433 $950,000 156.1% / $390 <nobr>$34,510,000 / 22</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 9 FINDING NEVERLAND   526 $900,000 221.4% / $1,711 <nobr>$9,759,000 / 22</nobr> N/A N/A N/A 10 AFTER THE SUNSET   1,889 $550,000 200.5% / $291 <nobr>$25,619,000 / 22</nobr> N/A N/A N/A -   - N/A N/A N/A N/A
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RyoHazuki

No real suprises here. Those are real low numbers, however. I know there were no big films out this weekend but those numbers still look low.

Jackskeleton

was there anything worth while to go to the theater for this week anyways?

RyoHazuki

Thats never stopped them before.

Dabaomb

where's House of Flying Daggers on the list?

Deftones

I"m surprised that the Incredibles has slowed down quite a bit. Looks like it may not hit the $300 million mark.

Patman

It only opened in LA and NY this weekend. It's due to open up wider on 12/17/04.

Sessa17

Absolutely. IMO maybe the best opening weekend in the past 2 months. Closer & House of Flying Daggers.

Closer did excellent considering how few theaters it opened up in. The movie is decent but Owen & Portman make it a must see.

Wazootyman

I'm guessing that Christmas should treat it fairly nicely, it might be able to lift above on the strength of time off from school for the little ones

TomOpus

Agree! Number 4 on the list, yet opened in under 500 screens? That's pretty damn good!

fumanstan

Apparently, America is still getting dumber Nice to see National Treasure about to break 100. Didn't get a chance to catch House of Flying Daggers this weekend, and with some Blade Trinity and Ocean's Twelve coming up, i'm not sure i can get around to it

Jennivere

re: Americans getting dumber...wish the studio exec. would give us a better chance. Of course National Treasure gets the crown..it's playing a much wider audience. I saw both Closer and Finding Neverland this past weekend...theatres packed. People will see good stuff if given the chance.

moocher

National Treasure is showing quite some legs there. Are there no movies of this type to topple NT in the next few weeks? It seems there is relatively little competition for this film. Everything else is either kiddie flicks or drama. Is this to be an action-less Christmas??

Dabaomb

Ocean's Twelve will definitely knock off NT next week. I think that Blade Trinity will as well.

Jackskeleton

Closer has had terrible word of mouth. As much as I'm a fan of Portman, I may just wait on this one because of big horse face.

Matthew Chmiel

Yeah, is that because a majority of the critics happen to like the film?

fumanstan

Like Dabaomb said, Blade and Ocean's Twelve should topple it easily. Blade is pretty action packed

Sessa17

I don't let "word of mouth" decide on what movies I see, (if anything the movies most people hate, I'm more likely to like & want to see) but from everything I read critics have absolutely loved this movie. I'm with you on horse face, I can't stand her & I hate Jude Law even more, but Owen really owns this movie, even though he isn't in it that much, & Portman can get me to see almost anything.

Jackskeleton

No, it's because many people I talked to disliked it. Word of mouth doesn't always have to be critics. Thanks for jumping to an assuming. Perhaps next time you might want to not do that. kthxbye.

Sessa17

I jumped to the right assumption, that is what I thought you meant & again, I don't let what other people say decide my own tastes, if you do that is cool, but it's shame, your missing one of the best performances of the year & Natalie shaking her butt on the big-screen. My friends generally have the same taste I do, but I still like to make up my own mind, I guess I'm just weird like that.

Besides, there are so few movies I can take my girlfriend to see & this was one of them.

matome

Weekend Estimates for 12/3-12/5 from boxofficemojo.com

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TW	LW	Title (Click to view daily chart)	Studio	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theater Count/Change		Average	Total Gross	Cost*	Week #
1	1	National Treasure	BV	$17,141,000	-46.7%	3,243	-	$5,285	$110,249,000	- / -	3
2	3	Christmas with the Kranks	SonR	$11,700,000	-45.8%	3,416	+23	$3,425	$45,463,000	$60 / -	2
3	4	The Polar Express	WB	$11,020,000	-43.2%	3,650	-	$3,019	$96,370,000	$165 / $60	4
4	2	The Incredibles	BV	$9,159,000	-61.2%	3,178	-275	$2,882	$226,002,000	$92 / $60	5
5	5	The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie	Par.	$7,800,000	-56.3%	3,307	-	$2,358	$68,353,000	$30 / -	3
6	N	Closer	Sony	$7,700,000	-	476	-	$16,176	$7,700,000	- / -	1
7	6	Alexander	WB	$4,725,000	-65.5%	2,445	-	$1,932	$29,650,000	$155 / $40	2
8	8	Finding Neverland	Mira.	$2,851,000	-39%	526	+13	$5,420	$11,711,000	$25 / -	4
9	7	Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason	Uni.	$2,761,000	-55.7%	2,433	-40	$1,134	$36,321,000	$40 / -	4
10	9	Ray	Uni.	$1,895,000	-52.3%	1,547	+48	$1,224	$67,799,000	$40 / -	6
11	11	Sideways	FoxS	$1,815,000	-37.7%	499	+2	$3,637	$12,491,000	$12 / -	7
12	10	After the Sunset	NL	$1,675,000	-46%	1,889	-420	$886	$26,744,000	$60 / -	4
13	12	The Grudge	Sony	$1,125,000	-42.4%	1,286	-200	$874	$109,253,000	$10 / -	7
14	13	Saw	Lions	$875,000	-42.9%	937	-106	$933	$54,444,000	$1.2 / -	6
15	14	Shall We Dance	Mira.	$768,000	-49%	1,109	+55	$692	$55,864,000	$50 / -	8
16	16	Kinsey	FoxS	$760,000	-41.2%	190	+2	$4,000	$3,672,000	$11 / -	4
17	15	Seed of Chucky	Focus	$636,000	-51%	856	-191	$742	$16,584,000	$12 / -	4
18	N	House of Flying Daggers	SPC	$417,000	-	15	-	$27,800	$417,000	- / -	1
19	17	The Motorcycle Diaries	Focus	$412,000	-37.3%	272	+33	$1,514	$14,283,000	- / -	11
-	20	Being Julia	SPC	$177,000	-45.4%	156	-50	$1,134	$2,971,000	- / -	8
-	N	I Am David	Lions	$169,000	-	226	-	$747	$169,000	- / -	1
-	30	Bad Education	SPC	$90,000	-35%	3	-	$30,000	$528,000	- / -	3
-	33	A Very Long Engagement	WIP	$72,800	-28.5%	4	-	$18,200	$213,000	$56.6 / -	2

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Pretty bad drops for The Incredibles & Alexander. Decent for the other holdovers considering the Holiday weekend last week. National Treasure snags it's third #1 weekend.

movielib

I'm glad to see National Treasure hanging on. Every once in awhile there's a movie the critics hate that's just plain fun like this one (IMO).

Even happier to see Closer doing so well on only 476 screens. By far the highest average per theater (in the top 17).

Third Baseman

Amen to both of those statements.

Jericho

So what was with the utter lack of releases this week? One semi-major movie in very limited release (Closer). I can't ever remember a weekend being so baren of new releases. What's the deal? You can't tell me people were fearful of Alexander or something...

dcprules

Glad to see Polar Express still moving along, that one should pass 100 million this week. Overall, really kind of a slow weekend. I know after Thanksgiving weekend typically isn't that big (at least last year we got The Last Samurai after the holiday), but I was hoping for something I want to go see. Oh well, the next four weeks hold more than enough movies I want to see.