Gary Dretzka
Leonard Klady
David Poland
Douglas Pratt
Ray Pride

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

September 9, 2007 Weekend Estimates Summer Market Share Gunfight Corrals OK ... It was high noon at the box office as 3:10 to Yuma got to the station ahead of the posse with an estimated $13.5 million. As the summer rode into the sunset, the sound of the fall came in a blazin' … sort of. The debut of Yuma didn't quite leave the competition choking dust and the other national bow, Shoot 'Em Up was mostly firing blanks with a $5.8 million weekend that ranked fourth overall. They were laughing in the wrong way at Brothers Solomon in its medium wide release at the shallow end of $500,000 while Dhamaal on the Bollywood circuit had a fair gross of $161,000 from 39 locations. Hatchet was a dull blade with $98,000 at 82 chopping blocs. The situation wasn't any better for the season's first wave of limited release freshmen. There was some promise in the space doc In the Shadow of the Moon of $39,100 from four launch sites and the political thriller The Hunting Party did $38,300 from another quartet of screens. Israeli import The Bubble had a $3,600 average in 10 exposures while single screen encounters for two belated comedy releases saw encouraging respective starts of $17,700 for Romance & Cigarettes and $13,600 for I Need Someone to Eat Cheese With. Overall business took a 35% hit from the prior weekend but saw a 14% gain from 2006 when preems of The Covenant and Hollywoodland entered the fray with respective grosses of $8.8 million and $5.9 million. There was a high degree of anxiety surrounding the opening of 3:10 to Yuma with nay sayers anticipating that a western yarn simply wouldn't cut it with the current generation of filmgoers and fans expecting a surprise. In the end it chugged to a middle ground that was respectable but hardly a call to boots and saddles. Sheer energy clearly wasn't enough for Shoot 'Em Up that performed markedly below expectations and Brothers Solomon appeared to be in theaters more out of contractual obligation than commercial conviction. - Leonard Klady Weekend Estimates - September 7-9, 2007 Title Distributor Gross (average) % change * Theaters Cume 3:10 to Yuma Lions Gate 13.5 (5,100) - 2652 13.5 Halloween MGM 9.4 (2,702) -64% 3475 43.6 Superbad Sony 7.4 (2,410) -41% 3069 103.1 Shoot 'Em Up New Line 5.8 (2,740) - 2108 5.8 The Bourne Ultimatum Uni 5.6 (1,870) -46% 3010 210.3 Balls of Fury Focus 5.5 (1,790) -51% 3081 24.1 Rush Hour 3 New Line 4.9 (1,830) -42% 2690 128.9 Mr. Bean's Holiday Uni 3.3 (1,870) -45% 1778 25 The Nanny Diaries MGM 3.2 (1,310) -38% 2444 20.9 Stardust Par 1.8 (1,240) -42% 1423 34.6 Hairspray New Line 1.7 (1,250) -36% 1393 114.7 Death Sentence Fox 1.6 (870) -63% 1823 7.9 The Simpson Movie Fox 1.4 (950) -51% 1440 180.3 War Lions Gate 1.3 (810) -68% 1634 20.5 Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix WB 1.0 (1,320) -46% 775 288.2 Becoming Jane Miramax .85 (880) -47% 968 17 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry Uni .81 (980) -41% 830 117.7 Underdog BV .78 (700) -54% 1121 41 Death at a Funeral MGM .71 (2,250) -34% 316 5.7 Transformers Par .63 (1,040) -45% 607 311.4 Ladron Que Roba a Ladron Lions Gate .61 (1,790) -62% 340 2.9 No Reservations WB .56 (820) -41% 685 41.5 Ratatouille BV .54 (870) -55% 620 202 Brothers Solomon Sony .51 (730) - 700 0.51 Weekend Total ($500,000+ Films) $73.40 - - - % Change (Last Year) -- 14% - - - % Change (Last Week) -- -35% - - - Also debuting/expanding Dhamaal Shemaroo .16 (4,130) - 39 0.16 Hatchet Anchor Bay 97,600 (1,190) - 82 0.1 In the Shadow of the Moon Thinkfilm 39,100 (9,780) - 4 0.04 The Hunting Party MGM 38,300 (9,570) - 4 0.04 The Bubble Strand 36,200 (3,620) - 10 0.04 Fierce People Lions Gate 20,400 (10,200) - 2 0.02 Romance & Cigarettes SPC 17,700 (17,700) - 1 0.02 I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With IFC 13,600 (13,600) - 1 0.01 Domestic Summer Market Share (May 3 - Sept 3, 2007) Rank 2007 Distributor Gross Mkt Share % Change From 2006 Rank 2006 1 Paramount 724.6 17.40% 45% 4 2 Universal 609.5 14.60% 61% 6 3 Buena Vista 580.7 13.90% -26% 1 4 Warner Bros. 544.7 13.10% 31% 5 5 Sony 521.3 12.50% -26% 2 6 Fox 470.1 11.30% -14% 3 7 New Line 251.2 6.00% 386% 14 8 MGM 169.3 4.10% 373% 11 9 Lions Gate 92.3 2.20% 36% 7 10 Focus 43.2 1.00% 33% 8 11 Fox Searchlight 34.2 0.80% 203% 15 - Other 127.5 3.10% - - - -  4168.6 100.00% 11% - % Change 2006 (Other Distributors) - Paramount Vantage - - -58% - - Picturehouse - - -47% - - Sony Classics - - -11% - - Weinstein Co. - - -81% -