Man, I knew Narnia wasn't going to rake but every projection I looked at was even higher than mine. What's a guy to do? What will be interesting is how this is reported. Narnia wins weekend? Or Narnia underperforms?
#1 movie predicted correctly: 4 Week In A Row
Yikes. Sorry Mouse House. The crazy thing is the original made $18k per theater while this was at $14k. This proves my point from three years ago; that was not a good movie. However, this one is - does that mean the second weekend will be a bit better? Or was it simply a December vs. May thing? Mysteries abound here.
Result: 56.5 million (My rank: #1, $20.1m off)
2. Iron Man
A very nice third weekend for Iron Man. A 39% bleed means the people have spoken... and they dig it.
Result: 31.2 million (My rank: #2, $3.8m off)
Obviously it did much better than I projected. Probably the ratio of folk that grew up in abusive households.
Result: 13.8 million (My rank: #3, $4.1m off)
4. Speed Racer
Almost a 60% drop in weekend two. This will go down as the biggest financial fiasco of the year.
Result: 7.6 million (My rank: #4, $1.9m off)
Hard to know what to make of this. It's raked in $46m worldwide so far on a budget of $40m. Maybe the unrrated DVD will offer even more Busy Phillips for my buck.
Result: 4.50 million (My rank: #5, $.2m off)
This received a ton of buzz but it's only made around $74m worldwide so it probably won't hit the mythical triple digits.
Result: 2.5 million (My rank: #7, $0.6m off)
The budget was $12m? What did they spend it on? Drugs?
Result: 1.8 million (My rank: #8, $0.5m off)
No budget released here but all that maekup to make the monkey king had to have cost a mint.
Result: 1.0 million (My rank: #9, $0.2m off)
10. The Visitor
It didn't even take $700k to crack the top ten. Sad stuff, not really worthy of Oracle introspection.
Result: .687 million (My rank: Not Ranked)
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