Mr. Cinema

Friday estimates. Museum appears to be unstoppable and looks like it'll be a $200 million grosser. It's earned at least $11 million every day except Christmas Eve. Great to see Rocky hanging in there.

1. NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 20TH CENTURY FOX 3,768 13,262,000 3,520 11% 92,277,000
2. PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS, THE 20TH CENTURY FOX 2,870 6,612,000 2,304 25% 85,620,000
3. DREAMGIRLS PARAMOUNT 852 4,750,000 5,575 7,013% 27,937,000
4. CHARLOTTE'S WEB PARAMOUNT 3,745 4,533,000 1,210 47% 45,287,000
5. ROCKY BALBOA MGM 3,019 3,802,000 1,259 -23% 41,214,000
6. GOOD SHEPHERD, THE UNIVERSAL 2,218 3,579,000 1,614 2% 27,637,000
7. ERAGON 20TH CENTURY FOX 2,985 2,925,000 980 8% 51,149,000
8. HAPPY FEET WARNER BROS. 2,565 2,866,000 1,117 56% 171,188,000
9. WE ARE MARSHALL WARNER BROS. 2,606 2,860,000 1,097 8% 19,890,000
10. HOLIDAY, THE PARAMOUNT 2,698 2,388,000 885 29% 45,788,000

fumanstan

Looks like another movie, another $100 mil for Will Smith.

Mr. Cinema

Saturday:

1. NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 20TH CENTURY FOX 3,768 13,510,000 3,585 8% 105,787,000
2. PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS, THE 20TH CENTURY FOX 2,870 7,475,000 2,605 18% 93,095,000
3. DREAMGIRLS PARAMOUNT 852 5,699,000 6,689 5,882% 33,636,000
4. ROCKY BALBOA MGM 3,019 4,271,000 1,415 -18% 45,485,000
5. GOOD SHEPHERD, THE UNIVERSAL 2,218 4,215,000 1,900 -1% 31,852,000
6. CHARLOTTE'S WEB PARAMOUNT 3,745 4,200,000 1,121 35% 49,487,000
7. ERAGON 20TH CENTURY FOX 2,985 3,220,000 1,079 9% 54,369,000
8. WE ARE MARSHALL WARNER BROS. 2,606 3,079,000 1,182 22% 22,969,000
9. HAPPY FEET WARNER BROS. 2,565 2,847,000 1,110 29% 174,035,000
10. HOLIDAY, THE PARAMOUNT 2,698 2,587,000 959 22% 48,375,000

Filmmaker

I'm disgusted at NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM's success...I really wanted it to be good but it's just god-awful. The last 30 minutes are painful and embarrassing. I agree, it's good to see ROCKY BALBOA hanging in there, but it still deserves better than what it's getting.

Joe Molotov

Casino Royale is now the highest grossing Bond movie worldwide, and continues to inch towards Die Another Day's domestic gross.

Mr. Cinema

Weekend Estimates:

1 1 Night at the Museum Fox $37,800,000 +24.2% 3,768 +83 $10,031 $116,855,000 - 2
2 2 The Pursuit of Happyness Sony $19,300,000 +30.3% 2,870 +7 $6,724 $98,346,000 $55 3
3 25 Dreamgirls P/DW $15,500,000 +6,709.0% 852 +849 $18,192 $38,464,000 - 4
4 5 Charlotte's Web (2006) Par. $12,000,000 +58.6% 3,745 +17 $3,204 $52,858,000 $85 3
5 3 Rocky Balboa MGM $11,350,000 -6.6% 3,019 +2 $3,759 $48,822,000 $24 2
6 4 The Good Shepherd Uni. $11,245,000 +13.4% 2,218 +3 $5,069 $35,311,000 - 2
7 6 Eragon Fox $8,475,000 +21.0% 2,985 -45 $2,839 $56,689,000 $100 3
8 7 We Are Marshall WB $8,025,000 +31.3% 2,606 - $3,079 $25,063,000 - 2
9 9 Happy Feet WB $7,835,000 +51.7% 2,565 - $3,054 $176,152,000 $100 7
10 10 The Holiday Sony $6,780,000 +40.1% 2,698 +63 $2,512 $50,011,000 $85 4
11 12 Blood Diamond WB $5,000,000 +59.9% 1,920 - $2,604 $35,831,000 $100 4
12 11 Casino Royale Sony $4,500,000 +43.1% 1,543 -45 $2,916 $153,425,000 $150 7
13 N Black Christmas MGM/W $4,120,000 - 1,544 - $2,668 $11,272,000 - 1
14 13 Apocalypto BV $3,402,000 +18.6% 2,023 -121 $1,681 $42,792,000 $40 4

Daytripper

Oh, it'll pass "Die Another Day" in two week's time. If not sooner.

Daytripper

What did you expect from the director of "Cheaper by the Dozen" and "The Pink Panther" (2006)?

Michael Ballack

I said that last week and was verbally spanked for being disappointed in Americans for supporting the awful Night at the Museum while not supporting the pretty universally positive reviews of Rocky Balboa.

Jackskeleton

So the post you quoted was just justification for your OPINION? It's a family friendly film around the time with most families have time off. No child should be taken to go see Rocky unless they really want considering you really do need to have the backing of the previous rocky films to enjoy his rise once again.

BravesMG

As one involved in the "verbal spanking", I was very upset not with your suggestion that Balboa should be faring a little better (again, I'll state I thought it was fantastic), it had to do with the fact that the last sentence of your post said "Stupid Americans", followed by a vomiting smiley face.

And I still do not disagree with the idea that Rocky should be doing better, in a perfect world. But NatM still looks like a good, family-friendly holiday movie that targets the widest audience over a holiday period. I'm planning on seeing it on IMAX tomorrow and giving a couple more bucks from my family toward the totals.

Michael Ballack

Oh stop with the whole family friendly Night at the Museum crap. Just because people with the kiddies couldn't take them to see Rocky doesn't mean they should take them to crap like Night at the Museum. If there was a really good Pixar film out there like Finding Nemo or something, I could understand. I can not understand how Night at the Museum is getting the numbers it is getting. Then again, I also don't understand the appeal of American Idol and the manufactured crap product they produce being so popular.

Filmmaker

Exactly! Trust me, you're doing your little ones a profound disservice if you pawn this kind of lowest-common-denominator, phoned-in-scriptwriting off as quality entertainment.

Filmmaker

Once again, I was sucker-punched by trailer editors with far more talent than the directors of the films they are advertising...

Obey The D

I really don't think a 6 or 7 year old is going to walk out of a movie like this and comment to their parents how they thought the screenwriting was weak. It's a kids movie for gods sake, not Citizen Kane. Some of you guys are hilarious when it comes to your hatred for certain films.

Michael Ballack

A kids movie doesn't have to be crap though. A good movie is a good movie. No one said it had to be Citizen Kane. I find people hilarious who will take kids to see anything that is family friendly.

fumanstan

The reviews for Night at the Museum are in the middle enough to see that plenty of people enjoyed it, not just because it's family friendly.

A good movie isn't always a good movie, depending on who you ask.

Filmmaker

And whoever said such a ridiculous, absurd thing? But if you indoctrinate them to accept bottom-barrell trash as good, then they grow up to be adults that do the same. Hence, Gen Y (*shudder*).

Filmmaker

Probably the same people who ensure that every f---in' Adam Sandler crapfest debuts at 50+ million...

DVDho78DTS

So....uh.....well....you own Scorpion King.

Matthew Chmiel

There have been plenty of kids movies over the years (that were not made by PIXAR) that were actual good movies. Sky High? Unaccompanied Minors? Curious George? Over the Hedge? Monster House? Zathura?

TomOpus

Indoctrinate? We're talking about young kids who get a kick out of balloon animals. If they have a good time with, what YOU would perceive as, a bad movie are you going to introduce electric shocks to "indoctrinate" them not to laugh at something they're enjoying?

How can you force a kid to not have fun. Jeeeze, let them be kids and let them have fun.

fumanstan

Having just watched Click the other night and finding it fairly enjoyable, I'd say heaven forbid someone has different comedic tastes then yourself. Excuse me if I can enjoy watching Rob Schneider play a male whore one night and watch Casablanca the next

I haven't seen Night at the Museum, and for all I know I might think it a terrible movie. It's just odd when people turn their own dislike of a movie into criticizing others that might enjoy it along with their taste in movies.

Filmmaker

As a fan of THE MUMMY movies, it seemed the right decision at the time. I suppose it won't help my case that I still have not watched it yet even after owning it for years. In any case, I'll try to hold off on showing it to my kid until he's old enough to turn to me and go, "Dad, this is shit. What the hell were you thinking?"

Filmmaker

I can "force" them not to watch shit movies. By showing them only quality family films, hopefully my child will grow up with something missing from most of the current youth generation--the ability to call a shit spade a shit spade.