Friday's Estimates

1. NORBIT $10,750,000
2. HANNIBAL RISING $4,900,000
3. BECAUSE I SAID SO $2,785,000
4. THE MESSENGERS $2,375,000
5. EPIC MOVIE $1,255,000
6. NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM $1,250,000
7. SMOKIN' ACES $1,190,000
8. PAN'S LABYRINTH $1,000,000
9. DREAMGIRLS $810,000
10. STOMP THE YARD $675,000

Looks like Thomas Harris may have finally succeeded in milking Silence of the Lambs for all it was worth. The black-man-dressing-as-a-fat-black-woman comedy, however, still has a lot of steam left in it. Tyler Perry will be pleased.

To be honest, I'm surprised Hannibal Rising made $4 million yesterday. I was assuming it would make that much total during the entire weekend.

Yep. Maybe they'll bring back a geriatric Hopkins as Lecter for the next one to spice things back up. Attack people from a wheelchair.

They've really been pimping it all over the TV for the past two weeks. I thought name-recognition alone would bring in more people than that, but I guess without Anthony Hopkins, they weren't able to drum up much excitement.

I really can't believe that number for Norbit. That's looking at a 25-30 million opening weekend, and probably cruising to a 100+ total. I would have said that Norbit was going to tank terribly, and obviously I would have been very wrong.

Obviously discriminating moviegoers are racing to their local theaters to see just how bad these movies are - according to Rotten Tomatoes:

2% - Epic Movie
7% - Because I Said So
16%- Hannibal Rising
9% - Norbit

(...makes that 45% for Museum look good!)

According to boxofficereport.com's early weekend estimates, "Pan's Labyrinth" only had a 6% drop from last weekend. That's great news. Word of mouth has been phenominal for this film.

1 N Norbit P/DW $33,740,000 - 3,136 - $10,758 $33,740,000 - 1
2 N Hannibal Rising MGM/W $13,350,000 - 3,003 - $4,445 $13,350,000 - 1
3 2 Because I Said So Uni. $9,041,000 -31.1% 2,529 +3 $3,574 $25,626,000 - 2
4 1 The Messengers SGem $7,200,000 -51.1% 2,529 +1 $2,846 $24,724,000 $16 2
5 4 Night at the Museum Fox $5,750,000 -10.0% 2,702 -301 $2,128 $232,146,000 - 8
6 3 Epic Movie Fox $4,450,000 -47.1% 2,806 -34 $1,585 $35,474,000 - 3
7 5 Smokin' Aces Uni. $3,793,000 -38.0% 2,199 -20 $1,724 $30,854,000 $17 3
8 8 Pan's Labyrinth PicH $3,549,000 -3.6% 1,143 +61 $3,104 $26,591,000 $19 7
9 7 Dreamgirls P/DW $3,093,000 -22.7% 2,284 -513 $1,354 $97,119,000 - 9
10 10 The Queen Mira. $2,510,000 -5.3% 1,564 -286 $1,604 $49,035,000 - 20
11 6 Stomp the Yard SGem $2,400,000 -40.8% 2,045 -124 $1,173 $59,123,000 $13 5
12 9 The Pursuit of Happyness Sony $2,400,000 -19.1% 1,777 -456 $1,350 $160,537,000 $55 9

Yes I can't wait for his return as "Big Momma" in Daddy's Little Girls.

They should make a movie with Norbit, Madea, Big Momma, and The Klumps and just end it all.

Very, very shocked at how much money Norbit made.

That's a Tyler Perry film, but as far as I know it does not have Madea in it.

There's clearly a large audience for men dressing as overweight black women, which really skeeves me out about the society we live in.

Geez, the damn thing won't go away

10% drop? What are we back in, the early 90's?

NEVER underestimate the power that teens have over the weekend box office. After all, they need a place to hang out in for 2 hours so they can text each other and throw popcorn.

Proof that January and February are dead months for movies when Norbit makes that much!

Well said, I am still in shock from seeing that number!

Yup, there definitely is. Dave Chappelle said when he was pitched a movie about basically doing the same thing, he said no, and the studio told him that all the big black comedians do it, therefore he should.

MadTV did a skit of this a while back, and they included the White Chicks as well.

Eddie's Back!!!!!! :d

Too bad its the bad Eddie that no one wanted back.