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Great debut for Coach Carter, Fockers continue to show amazing legs, Elektra bombs with sub-Catwoman numbers.

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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	N	Coach Carter	Par.	$23,600,000	-	2,524	-	$9,350	$23,600,000	$30 / -	1
2	1	Meet the Fockers	Uni.	$19,014,000	-33.3%	3,554	+27	$5,350	$230,808,000	$80 / -	4
3	N	Racing Stripes	WB	$14,030,000	-	3,185	-	$4,405	$14,030,000	- / -	1
4	33	In Good Company	Uni.	$13,890,000	9535.9%	1,566	+1,563	$8,869	$14,380,000	- / -	3
5	N	Elektra	Fox	$12,500,000	-	3,204	-	$3,901	$12,500,000	- / -	1
6	2	White Noise	Uni.	$12,181,000	-49.5%	2,279	+18	$5,344	$41,223,000	- / -	2
7	3	The Aviator	Mira.	$4,775,000	-36.3%	1,956	+89	$2,441	$49,953,000	$110 / -	5
8	4	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Par.	$3,965,000	-46.7%	2,540	-803	$1,561	$111,043,000	$140 / -	5
9	9	The Phantom of the Opera	WB	$3,550,000	3.8%	907	+285	$3,914	$26,437,000	$70 / -	4
10	6	Ocean's Twelve	WB	$2,895,000	-45.5%	2,105	-905	$1,375	$119,845,000	$110 / -	6
11	5	Fat Albert	Fox	$2,825,000	-50.9%	2,043	-632	$1,382	$44,638,000	- / -	4
12	8	National Treasure	BV	$2,620,000	-38.4%	1,610	-567	$1,627	$164,264,000	$100 / -	9
13	16	Sideways	FoxS	$2,200,000	15.3%	370	+5	$5,945	$28,082,000	$16 / -	13
14	25	House of Flying Daggers	SPC	$1,785,000	223.4%	1,189	+1,047	$1,501	$7,020,000	- / -	7
15	15	Million Dollar Baby	WB	$1,740,000	-9.4%	122	+13	$14,262	$5,611,000	$30 / -	5
16	7	Spanglish	Sony	$1,680,000	-60.5%	1,662	-925	$1,010	$40,517,000	$80 / -	5
17	11	Finding Neverland	Mira.	$1,612,000	-28.8%	1,000	-77	$1,612	$30,301,000	$25 / -	10
18	20	Hotel Rwanda	UA	$1,550,000	32.3%	192	+87	$8,072	$3,680,000	- / -	4
-	13	The Polar Express	WB	$890,000	-57%	445	-1,562	$2,000	$160,091,000	$165 / $60	10
-	12	Darkness	Dim.	$581,000	-73.4%	955	-759	$608	$21,306,000	$10.6 / -	4
-	19	Blade: Trinity	NL	$401,000	-72.3%	707	-800	$567	$51,551,000	$65 / -	6
-	23	Kinsey	FoxS	$390,000	-53.6%	339	-249	$1,150	$8,556,000	$11 / -	10
-	29	Bad Education	SPC	$330,000	41.6%	54	+12	$6,111	$2,550,000	- / -	9
-	22	The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie	Par.	$265,000	-69.1%	440	-402	$602	$83,517,000	$30 / -	9
-	42	William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice	SPC	$127,000	159.5%	15	+11	$8,466	$317,000	$30 / -	3
-	31	Shall We Dance	Mira.	$105,000	-40%	254	-46	$413	$57,561,000	$50 / -	14
-	N	Appleseed	Gen.	$78,700	-	31	-	$2,538	$78,700	- / -	1
-	44	The Sea Inside	FL	$46,400	4%	12	-	$3,866	$267,000	- / -	5
-	55	Vera Drake	FL	$22,700	-6.8%	41	+4	$553	$2,203,000	- / -	14
-	N	The Chorus	Mira.	$15,800	-	2	-	$7,900	$15,800	- / -	1

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SFranke

I am not familar with the box office receipts game, but is The Aviator considered a failure, financially speaking?

Joe Molotov

I wish Sony had advertised House of Flying Daggers a little better. Even I didn't know it was finally getting a wider release this weekend, until I checked Cinemark.com to see what was showing locally, and I consider myself to be pretty knowledgeable about upcoming releases. I went to see it on Saturday afternoon, and four other people were there, two of whom left in the first five minutes.

Artman

Considering the 110mill pricetag, I think that's a fair statement. Even if it gets an awards-nom boost, I don't see it making more than 80-90 million. Probably not gonna be a hot ticket overseas either.

Great movie though.

Jackskeleton

It will make it's money back in overseas sales. add with dvd take in and any bump that it gets from the awards season, it will make its money back and then some.

jaeufraser

It's tracking on par with Gangs of New York. Seeing as it'll probably be a bigger awards movie than that one, I would expect it to end up around 80-100 mil in the end. While it's no mega blockbuster, it's hard to say it's a disapointment because I doubt Miramax expected it to really do any better than that. It'll be interesting to see what awards do for that movie. Recall that it's a movie that's never been in more than 2,000 theaters, which is small for a movie that big.

PopcornTreeCt

Unless awards for The Aviator lead to a wider release I don't see it making that much more money. DVDs always make up for poor box office receipts but then again, studios now have their own expectations for DVD sales and The Aviator will probably not live up to those.

Jackskeleton

Now a days it's hard for a film to not make it's budget back.

wm lopez

Looks like J. Garner will remain on t.v. a bit longer.

Ranger

Wha? Am I reading this right, meet the fockers has grossed $230 milion?!!

bsktballDude1

I was really hoping that House of Flying Daggers would pull through with more than just 1.7 million for its first weekend in wide release.

I would also like very much to see Hotel Rwanda in wide release because it's such a powerful movie that needs to be seen.

RichC2

Here's to hoping Word of Mouth picks it up.. Advertising for the movie stopped like a month ago.

matome

Believe it or not, it actually has an outside chance at hitting $300mil.

Patman

Well, fock me with a chainsaw!

scott shelton

I was wondering when this would come up...

The 110 mil price tag is not all Miramax. Reports peg their investment at 40-50% of that number.

I think AVIATOR is doing rather well, considering the difficult subject matter and the heavy competition. Audiences are actually seeking it out.

So no, it's not financially failing.