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Worst Hollywood Weekend In 7 Years?

I had to put something up...

Last night I just ignored the box-office results, which I cover on a weekly basis based on early Friday numbers, but today I decided I just couldn’t go without saying anything. Steve Mason at Fantasy Moguls is saying this weekend is likely to be the worst weekend in Hollywood in seven years! He says you “have to go back to September 21-23, 2001 to find a 3-day” weekend as slow as this one in which the top 12 movies look to gross an estimated $44.43 million. In 2001 the number was $43.53 million.

Lionsgate’s unscreened Bangkok Dangerous looks to just beat out Tropic Thunder with a potential $6.85 million over Thunder’s $6.43, which means it could still go either way. The only other new releases were small ones and played no effect on the overall tally.

The Dark Knight looks to hold the third spot followed by The House Bunny and Babylon A.D. to round out the top five.

Below are Mason’s predictions for the 3-day weekend, but Laremy will be here tomorrow to give you all the gory details. Unfortunately he needs Tropic to beat Bangkok in order to go 10/10 in his Oracle predictions. What will happen? Oh the drama…

  1. Bangkok Dangerous (Lionsgate) -$6.85 million
  2. Tropic Thunder (DreamWorks/Paramount) — $6.43 million
  3. The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.) - $5.25 million
  4. The House Bunny (Sony) - $4.58 million
  5. Babylon A.D. (20th Century Fox) - $4.1 million
  6. Traitor (Overture) - $3.8 million
  7. Disaster Movie (Lionsgate) - $2.92 million
  8. Death Race (Universal) - $2.67 million
  9. Mamma Mia (Universal) - $2.67 million
  10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Weinstein) - $1.99 million
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