Friday:

1. STOMP THE YARD SONY 2,051 3,752,000 1,829 -48% 32,003,000
2. NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 20TH CENTURY FOX 3,483 2,998,000 861 -28% 195,837,000
3. HITCHER, THE FOCUS FEATURES 2,831 2,772,000 979 n/a 2,772,000
4. DREAMGIRLS PARAMOUNT 2,214 2,275,000 1,028 5% 71,681,000
5. PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS, THE SONY 3,066 1,938,000 632 -24% 141,746,000
6. FREEDOM WRITERS PARAMOUNT 2,286 1,620,000 709 -25% 22,932,000
7. PAN'S LABYRINTH PICTURE HOUSE 609 1,358,000 2,230 121% 6,800,813
8. CHILDREN OF MEN UNIVERSAL 1,524 1,155,000 758 -39% 24,943,168
9. ALPHA DOG UNIVERSAL 1,292 979,000 758 -58% 9,771,000
10. QUEEN, THE MIRAMAX 1,586 930,000 586 n/a 33,123,000

Per Theater, Pan's Labyrinth was #1 yesterday.

Notice how Primeval slowly dropped out of the top 10 as the week went on? Word of mouth, I bet.

Night at the Museum is gonna hit $200 million. Who woulda guessed?

pan's just opened around me this weekend. as did babel, last king of scotland, and letters of iwo jima. must be a push with the oscars. either way, it's good stuff.

Never in a million years for me. I was thinking it would be lucky to top out at $60-75 mil.

Well, it's a really greats kids flick that teaches them important lessons.

1 1 Stomp the Yard SGem $13,300,000 -39.1% 2,051 - $6,484 $41,564,000 $14 2
2 2 Night at the Museum Fox $13,000,000 -24.3% 3,483 -129 $3,732 $205,840,000 - 5
3 4 Dreamgirls P/DW $8,711,000 +4.2% 2,214 +307 $3,934 $78,118,000 - 6
4 N The Hitcher (2007) Rog. $8,234,000 - 2,831 - $2,908 $8,234,000 - 1
5 3 The Pursuit of Happyness Sony $6,700,000 -24.7% 3,066 -103 $2,185 $146,511,000 $55 6
6 5 Freedom Writers Par. $5,564,000 -24.0% 2,286 +107 $2,433 $26,882,000 $21 3
7 16 Pan's Labyrinth PicH $4,725,000 +117.8% 609 +415 $7,758 $10,155,000 $19 4
8 24 The Queen Mira. $3,700,000 +232.8% 1,586 +1,242 $2,332 $35,857,000 - 17
9 7 Children of Men Uni. $3,700,000 -41.9% 1,524 +16 $2,427 $27,481,000 $76 4
10 9 Arthur and the Invisibles MGM/W $3,105,000 -27.7% 2,248 +1 $1,381 $9,296,000 $86 4

Nice per theater average for Pan's Labyrinth.

I don't know why, but I thought The Hitcher would do a lot better as the only wide new opening, that 8.2 sounds pretty pitiful. And holy crap, Night at the Museum still raking in $13m, only a 24% drop. That could push $230+ by the end of its run, very impressive.

I wish CoM was getting more business, but at least it is inching towards its production budget: BOM estimates $60MM total including overseas and I think the US is the last major territory for its release.

I still don't understand the point of having a big budget movie be released in limited release. If this had come out wide in December, it would've done a lot better.