That's probably the Pina Coladas talking.
This weekend, what's this?!?! A TIE?!?!?!? Let's go to the numbers, shall we? (All in millions, remember, and these are the studio estimates. The actuals will be available on Monday).
1. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Fox)- $42.5, 4099 screens, week 1, $67.5 total (wed open)
2. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (P/DW) - $42.5, 4234 screens, week 2, $293.4 total
3. Public Enemies (Uni) $26.1, 3334 screens, week 1, $41.0 total (wed open)
4. The Proposal (BV) - $12.7, 3099 screens, week 3, $94.2 total
5. The Hangover (WB)- $10.4, 3070 screens, week 5, $204.1 total
6. Up (BV) - $6.5, 2656 screens, week 6, $264.8 total
7. My Sister's Keeper (WB)- $5.2, 2606 screens, week 2, $25.9 total
8. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Sony) - $2.5, 1908 screens, week 4, $58.4 total
9. Night at the Museum... (Fox)- $2.1, 1419 screens, week 7, $167.7 total
10. Year One (Sony) - $2.1, 2240 screens, week 3, $38.0 total
So those are the numbers, but what do they mean? Well, it means that the Transformers folks didn't want to lose face and predicted something that the Ice Age people also predicted. Neither will back down until official numbers are reported on Monday. That means I'm gonna have another pina colada.
But I'm not going to report back with final numbers. My guess is that Transformers will have predicted more than actually made, and Ice Age will be declared champion of the world! But sometimes I've been known to be wrong. Rare times, but it does happen.
And Public Enemies had a nice showing. That's star power for you. Have that Pirate captain and Batman star in a gangster movie in the middle of summer, against animated dinosaurs and robots, and still pull that off. Star Power I says!
(Those last few sentences are best read if you hear an old Hollywood agent stereotype say them aloud. Imagine that, won't you?)
Oh, and there's another tie at the bottom of the list, too. But nobody's really clamoring for dibs on ninth these days, are they? Aw, bummer. Star Trek's out of the top ten. Son of a....
Below the radar, there are a lot of good movies out that are worth time and money to check them out. More so than nonsense movies about loud noises and bright flashing colors with no cohesive sense of story. In it's second week The Hurt Locker added 5 more screens and took in $126,000. Away We Go, is still expanding, and took in another $1.1 million. And Moon, a fantastic movie starring Sam Rockwell (and a robot!) expanded to 26 more screens in its' fourth week, and took in $300,000.
There you have my amazing break down. Next week, Borat 2: Austrian Boogaloo. And something else, too.
Until next weekend.......
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