gmal2003

With the post of Elf competing with Revolutions (which I DONT think will be the case) being discussed, I am curious to know what movie out-grossed another it was projected not to for their opening weekend. Even if both or just one was anticipated, there is always one movie projected to out gross another for their weekend. Elf outgrossing Revolutions would be a huge upset.

yecul

With a Tuesday release vs a weekend one I don't really see how Matrix losing to Elf would be an upset.

PalmerJoss

One that comes to mind is from this summer, when Spy Kids 3 grossed about 31 million while Tomb Raider 2 grossed just around 20 mil. If I remember correctly most box office analysts were predicting it to be the other way around.

lrstreet

July 4th weekend 2000
George Clooney's A Perfect Storm doubled the take of Mel Gibson's The Patriot.

Wazootyman

And about a week before that, Clooney had come out and said that he had no doubt that Patriot would slaughter Perfect Storm. He said it was a patriotic Mel Gibson action movie, and would dominate the box office

wm lopez

How can you guys forget the year 1990, when HOME ALONE k.o'd
ROCKY 5!!

Crocker Jarmen

I don't remember what it realeased the same week as, but didn't the first Scary Movie gross something crazy like $56 million in it's first weekend?

Jay G.

Scary Movie made $42 million it's first weekend, and the only other major film opening that weekend was Disney's The Kid.

The Nature Boy

Private Parts(the Howard Stern Film) shocked me, opening at not even 15 million in 1997. I thought for sure that would break 25 million on the low-end. I was much more naive to the box office then, but I knew it was trouble when it almost lost to Jungle 2 Jungle.

Ted The Bug

Titanic and Tomorrow Never Dies opened the same weekend and everyone expected TND to easily win, but in the end Titanic beat it out by less than a million bucks.