Only roughly 5M on Friday? This film was predicted to make nearly 40M for the weekend. Can it possibly make 35M the rest of the weekend?

The Top Movies of Friday, February 27, 2009
Movie Distributor Genre Gross Change Thtrs. Per Thtr. Total Gross Days
1 (new) Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience Buena Vista Concert/Performance $4,959,000 1,271 $3,902 $4,959,000 1
2 (1) Madea Goes To Jail Lionsgate Comedy $4,480,000 +217.51% 2,052 $2,183 $52,830,000 8
3 (2) Slumdog Millionaire Fox Searchlight Drama $3,014,000 +172.08% 2,943 $1,024 $106,012,000 108
4 (3) Taken 20th Century Fox Thriller/Suspense $2,776,000 +279.29% 3,089 $899 $100,708,000 29
5 (4) He's Just Not That Into You Warner Bros. Romantic Comedy $1,900,000 +179.74% 2,858 $665 $74,550,000 22
6 (new) Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li 20th Century Fox Action $1,538,000 1,136 $1,354 $1,538,000 1
7 (6) Confessions of a Shopaholic Buena Vista Romantic Comedy $1,429,000 +208.75% 2,534 $564 $30,601,000 15
8 (9) Paul Blart: Mall Cop Sony Pictures Comedy $1,364,000 +311.02% 2,698 $506 $123,870,000 43
9 (5) Coraline Focus Features Adventure $1,303,000 +149.90% 2,063 $632 $57,155,000 22
10 (13) Fired Up Sony Pictures Comedy $1,286,000 +494.19% 1,811 $710 $7,623,000 8

Great to see that utter shit under perform. And Im referring to the 3D thing along with Street FIghter. ANd damn you SLumdog yet again. You better not Pass Benjamin Button in Box office! Oh well maybe this'll let Danny Boyle make anything he wants. ANd hopefully this time it'll be alot better than SLumdog.
Cant wait to see Watchmen next Week. I hope that will make some serious $.

Trust me, Slumdog will continue to make more dough and pass Benjamin Button. To each his own, but I really liked Slumdog so hope it does well all they way till the Blu-ray release.

I can't believe the Jonas Brothers actually made 5M on Friday... who watches this shit?

I liked Slumdog better than Benjamin Button. Button was basically Forrest Gump again. Paul Blart's been in the top ten for a long time.

The men don't know, but the little girls understand.

Glad to see Taken is still bringing in the dough. I can care less about anything else on the list (other than Caroline, which I have still yet to see)..

glad to see Taken crossing the 100 mil line

Jonas Fuckers underperforming + Taken crosses $100m = me happy.

Button has still done pretty well. $277 mil worldwide ($124+ here, $153+ overseas).

Great to see Madea drop almost 70% on Friday. That's expected though. Perry's films usually have an enormous drop during weekend 2. However, his films are cheap to make and his audience is apparently very easy to entertain.

I bet Jonas goes up a bit over the weekend, maybe make $20m overall. not terrible but well below expectations. no, I'm not planing on seeing it.

I actually saw a guy in his late 20s/early 30s buy a ticket to Jonas Brothers and there was no girl with him. And he'd be in line for about five minutes.

I myself went to see Waltz with Bashir, but the print broke at 40 minutes. I'll try again on Thursday before Watchmen.

The Hannah Montana concert succeeded for two reasons:

1) Released during Super Bowl weekend with no competition at all.

2) It was touted as a ONE WEEK ONLY event.

Granted that Jonas Brothers 3D has no competition, but it didn't have the stigma that it was going to be a one week only event (or unless you're a twelve-year-old girl who loves IMAX 3D).

There's a chance that it could still have an opening weekend gross of $17-18 million, but Disney is probably disappointed as Hannah Montana did double on half the screens.

EDIT: So my rough estimate is based upon the fact that Hannah Montana had a 50% jump on Saturday followed by a 28% decrease on Sunday.

On the radio this morning they were talking about the Jonahs Brothers movie and the critics that gave it poor reviews. He made a good point that these kind of movies aren't geared towards the critics and they should review it from the perspective of the target demographic. All of the callers were kids ranging in ages of 7-16. They all enjoyed it. So to them it was a good movie. Based on their reviews it's a well done movie. Roger Ebert has reviewed movies in the past that weren't his cup of tea but saw past that and gave it a good rating saying it's a movie he knew the audience that it was made for would like it.

Hey Jonas bros! Thanks for killing Coraline!

Jonas is going to bomb BIG TIME. I was in the mall yesterday & checked. They didn't sell a single ticket for the 9am 11am or 1pm showing (it's showing every 2 hours). I went to it at 11 am today (Don't flame me as I merely went to pick up ticket stubs for the Disney Movie Rewards program & extras to ebay).
The little tweeners weren't in school today yet once again 9am no tickets sold, 11am I went to had 6 people & (I stayed grinding my teeth the whole time) for the 1pm showing only 15. Usually I can get 40-50 ticket stubs from people on their way out. I only got 9 stubs (& I need 12 for the 3 DMR accounts). I kept the 3D glasses though (even though they asked everybody for them on the way out). I went out just before they came in to grab them. At least the ticket was a free pass (good even for No pass events). What a horrible experience having to sit through it twice & not even to get enough stubs for my Disney Rewards.

20 is about right. I don't know anyone who realistically thought it would do 40. Considering it cost nothing to make, it'll be a huge success when said and done. I've seen Jonas mania up close and it's rivaled only by Twilight fans so I wouldn't be surprised if this has legs with repeat viewings.

Wow, Oscars did a lot for Slumdog Millionaire. Paul Blart -- Amazing. Never would've expected that.

I thought $5 million for one day was pretty good for Jonas.

Street fighter bombing as expected. Has anyone even seen an ad for it? Only movie ad I keep seeing on tv is watchmen.

With the regards to the Jonas total you have to figure in the markup for tickets. Near me, individual tickets are $15 a piece.

Aside from a movie poster, I never saw an ad for Street Fighter.

There's a big sign at my ticket window that says all Jonas Bros showtimes are $15, which is just about double the price of a normal non-matinee show here.

I don't know where "near you" is, but are they fucking crazy? In this terrible economy, who would pay that much to see the Jonas Sisters on the screen!? And if I had kids, I'd tell them "No way. You can wait for Netflix. Or the Disney channel". $15.00 my ass.