Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sm...mlk-estimates/
"Biggest MLK Weekend Ever!: PAUL BLART: MALL COP and NOTORIOUS prove to be unbeatable 1-2 punch; Eastwood’s GRAN TORINO and HOTEL FOR DOGS battle for #3; MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3-D targets $22.5M!"

EXCLUSIVE STEVE MASON EARLY FRIDAY ESTIMATES
1. NEW - Paul Blart: Mall Cop (Sony) - $9.5M, $3,022 PTA, $9.5M cume
2. NEW – Notorious (Fox Searchlight) - $9M, $5,495 PTA, $9M cume
3. NEW - My Bloody Valentine 3-D (Lionsgate) - $7.5M, $2,960 PTA, $7.5M cume
4. Gran Torino (Warner Bros) - $6.5M, $2,187, $57.49M cume
5. NEW – Hotel For Dogs (Dreamworks/Paramount) - $4.7M, $1,437 PTA, $4.7M cume
6. Bride Wars (Fox) - $3.55M, $1,100 PTA, $29.37M cume
7. Defiance (Paramount Vantage) - $2.9M, $1,621 PTA, $3.24M cume
8. Marley & Me (Fox) - $2.3M, $779 PTA, $128.7M cume
9. The Unborn (Rogue) - $2.2M, $933 PTA, $25.43M cume
10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount) - $1.7M, $765 PTA, $98.72M cume
11. Bedtime Stories (Disney) - $1.65M, $630 PTA, $100.55M cume
12. Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight) - $1.3M, $2,234 PTA, $38.13M cume

EXCLUSIVE STEVE MASON EARLY 4-DAY ESTIMATES
1. NEW - Paul Blart: Mall Cop (Sony) - $36M, $11,450 PTA, $36M cume
2. NEW – Notorious (Fox Searchlight) - $29M, $17,705 PTA, $29M cume
3. Gran Torino (Warner Bros) - $26.65M, $8,967, $77.64M cume
4. NEW – Hotel For Dogs (Dreamworks/Paramount) - $26.32M, $8,046 PTA, $26.32M cume
5. NEW - My Bloody Valentine 3-D (Lionsgate) - $22.5M, $8,879 PTA, $22.5M cume
6. Bride Wars (Fox) - $14.91, $4,619 PTA, $40.73M cume
7. Defiance (Paramount Vantage) - $12.47M, $6,970 PTA, $12.81M cume
8. Marley & Me (Fox) - $10.58M, $3,584 PTA, $136.98M cume
9. Bedtime Stories (Disney) - $9.3M, $3,551 PTA, $108.2M cume
10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount) - $7.5M, $3,347 PTA, $104.52M cume
11. The Unborn (Rogue) - $7.92M, $3,357 PTA, $31.15M cume
12. Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight) - $5.59M, $9,605 PTA, $42.42M cume



Those are some pretty big numbers for Notorious although considering the type of film it is I would bet its gonna be pretty front-loaded.
And I cant even talk about Paul Blartt: Mall Cop. The success of this garbage is wholly depressing and makes me want to move to another country.

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

ugh.... the taste of the American public just disgusts me.

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

Stupid is as stupid does

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Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

eh it's the middle of January not really a good time for quality movies to reign the box office. Wasn't like Meet the Spartans #1 around this time last year?

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

I'll take a movie like Paul Blart over Meet the Spartans any day.

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

I hope My Bloody Valentine 3-D does a little better when the weekend is finished....

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

Me too, although I'm questioning why they didn't wait until it got a little closer to the actual holiday to release it. Hotel for Dogs better not beat it. That's all I'm sayin'.

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

oh who ya kiddin' it's Disney, with dogs.... aimed at kids' - it aint' rocket science ;)

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

I plan on checking out Gran Torino a little later today and Double Feature My Bloody Valentine (non-3D) and The Unborn next week. Gran Torino will be my first movie this year snd I can already guess it's better than the last movie I seen lasy year (The Spirit)

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

No. Disney occasionally makes quality movies. Hotel For Dogs is from Nickelodeon.

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

opps - my bad
let me rephrase that - it features kids and dogs, there are poop jokes - it's a hit :)

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

Week after week, month after month, I click in this thread expecting thisthis week to be the one where the latest shitfest from Hollywood isn't #1. I'm usually disappointed ;)

Also disappointed to see The Wrestler not crack the Top 10, because it opened wider this week.

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

Paul Blart #1? Who goes to see this crap? Looks like a straight to video release in the unfunny previews.

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

Ebert gave it three stars

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/...IEWS/901149986

My Bloody Valentine was kind of lame. I had a feeling it wouldn't be number 1 but I thought Notorious would be.

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

they didn't want to compete with the friday the 13th remake.

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Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

*crickets*

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

As the great quote goes:

"Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public" - H.L. Mencken

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

Duh. I don't know why I forgot that. Hell, Derek Mears told me that when I saw him last week at the MBV premiere. Yea, F13th would have killed them.

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

Have to admit I didn't think Mall Cop would do any kind of business. Seem to be big numbers for January, nice.

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

PG-13 most of the time beats out R films,It's a shame....

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

Paul Blartt is PG though so I guess it has that helping it. It'd be like a nightmare for me though. an 87 minite long PG-rated nightmare. Even though I have no interest in Notorious and My Bloody Valentine its not a bad thing to see R-rated films doing very well this month. Gran Torino is also still doing very nicely as well.

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

Why wouldn't I believe? What did you expect to beat it? I've seen countless ads for Paul Blart and I don't even watch tv.

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

Yeah, I agree. I think it was easy to predict Blart would make a lot of dough.

Re: Weekend Box Office: 1/16-1/19 "You Wont Believe What's No. 1" Edition
 

I'll take Paul Blart over the likes of "Gran Torino" any day.