..Gary Dretzka
..Leonard Klady
..Emanuel Levy
..David Poland
..Doug Pratt
..Ray Pride

Weekend Estimates 2005 Domestic Market Share 2004 International Boxoffice 2004 Domestic Boxoffice 2004 Market Share The Bill Chill: Snowdance Hits Theaters You can't fool with Mother Nature and she came down with a fury in the Northeast and Midwest, shivering movie going to the bone. The cinematic force majeur was likely to wither admissions by 20% to 25% of unrecoverable income with exhibition and distribution sources trying to emulate Happy rather than Grouchy and Sneezy. The frame was nonetheless led by an upbeat debut for Are We There Yet? estimated at $18.8 million and a passable result of $6.8 million for Assault on Precinct 13 that ranked the thriller sixth in the weekend lineup. However, millions were left in the snowdrift as storms battered the East Coast and beyond and a healthy chunk of the nation decided to take a Snow Day. Business for the frame should just creep past $100 million to keep it even with the 3-day portion of last weekend's Martin Luther King holiday. It was nonetheless a significant 29% decline for the same period of 2004. The hijinx of the Ice Cube comedy vehicle Are We There Yet? led the session as expected but with a muted potency that predicted a debut in the area of $25 million. It should still provide a nice profit … just not quite as large as it might have been in the absence of inclement weather. More nettlesome is the fate of the remake of Assault on Precinct 13 from 1976 centering on the siege of a police station. It was effectively ramped up on the production side and its Wednesday and Thursday box office generated a $1.5 million box office that suggested weekend results in the low teens. Instead it crawled to $6.8 million and will need strong international and ancillary response to meet its nut. Holdover titles were rocked by declines that generally cut business by half with no respite from areas unaffected by the white menace. In a business where momentum is vital, it repped a crushing blow for the New Year. Only the addition of new theaters soften the blow for expansions of award contenders including Million Dollar Baby, The Aviator, Hotel Rwanda and The Phantom of the Opera that await final word from the Academy Tuesday morning. Fortunately, the weekend was only lightly sprinkled with new titles in regional, specialized or exclusive engagements. Bollywood's Kisna bowed on 82 screens to a disappointing $130,000 weekend while there wasn't much interest in the adaptation of kid lit favorite When Zachary Beaver Came to Town in 23 playdates in Texas, Utah and Kansas. It barely generated $10,000 from areas untouched by bad weather, so the commercial body blow was doubly severe. Best of the exclusives was European Film Award winner Head On from Germany. The sprightly drama grossed roughly $11,000 from a single Manhattan site. - by Leonard Klady

Weekend Estimates - January 21-23, 2005

Title	Distributor	Gross (average)	% change	Theaters	Cume
Are We There Yet?	Sony	18.8 (6.930)	-	2709	18.8
Coach Carter	Par	11.2 (4,380)	-54%	2552	43.4
Meet the Fockers	Uni	10.3 (3,000)	-47%	3446	247.8
In Good Company	Uni	8.5 (4,350)	-35%	1963	27.9
Racing Stripes	WB	6.9 (2,170)	-50%	3185	27.2
Assault on Precinct 13	Focus	6.8 (2,860)	-	2297	8.1
White Noise	Uni	5.2 (2,300)	-57%	2247	49.6
The Aviator	Miramax/WB	5.1 (2,260)	1%	2261	58.2
Phantom of the Opera	WB	4.8 (3,190)	32%	1511	33.4
Elektra	Fox	3.8 (1,180)	-71%	3203	20.2
Sideways	Fox Searchlight	2.9 (4,180)	35%	699	32.2
Million Dollar Baby	WB	1.7 (11,670)	-6%	147	8.4
Ocean's Twelve	WB	1.7 (1,350)	-42%	1275	122.7
Lemony Snicket's Unfortunate Incidents	Par	1.6 (1,040)	-61%	1524	114.6
Hotel Rwanda	MGM	1.4 (4,420)	-3%	319	5.7
National Treasure	BV	1.3 (1,250)	-50%	1071	166.6
Finding Neverland	Miramax	1.2 (1,400)	-31%	869	32.5
House of Flying Daggers	Sony Classics	.93 (910)	-47%	1021	8.9
Closer	Sony	.58 (1,160)	-26%	504	32.9
The Life Aquatic	BV	.54 (1,260)	-60%	425	23
Spanglish	Sony	.53 (780)	-69%	680	41.8
Fat Albert	Fox	.52 (410)	-81%	1252	46.4
Weekend Total ($500,000+ Films)		$96.10	-	-	-
% Change (Last Year)-		0%	-	-	-
% Change (Last Week)		-29%	-	-	-
Also Debuting/Expanding
The Woodsman	Newmarket	.20 (2,390)	-7%	85	0.96
The Merchant of Venice	Sony Classics	.16 (4,760)	33%	33	0.52
Kisna	Eros	.13 (1,620)	-	82	0.13
Head On	Strand	11,300 (11,300)	-	1	0.01
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town	Echo Bridge	10,450 (450)	-	23	0.01
Beautiful Boxer	Regent	7,300 (3,650)	-	2	0.01

Domestic Market Share: January 1-20, 2005

Distributor (Titles)	Gross (Millions)	Percentage
Universal (6)	170.5	34.40%
Warner Bros. (8)	74.3	15.00%
Paramount (5)	63.2	12.70%
Miramax (4)	46.8	9.40%
Fox (4)	42.1	8.50%
Buena Vista (4)	34.7	7.00%
Sony (5)	23.8	4.80%
Fox Searchlight (4)	11.1	2.20%
New Line (5)	6.8	1.40%
Sony Classics (4)	6.3	1.30%
Lions Gate (3)	4.1	0.80%
Other (28)	12.5	2.50%
-	496.2	100.00%