..Gary Dretzka
..Noah Forrest
..Leonard Klady
..David Poland
..Douglas Pratt
..Ray Pride
..Kim Voynar
..Michael Wilmington

April 13, 2008 Weekend Estimates Domestic Market Share Hop To It Weekend movie going dressed up and gave its corsage to the scare fare Prom Night that bested all comers with an estimated $22.8 million. Another freshman, the tough cop Street Kings ranked second with a so-so $12.1 million and the limited wide release preem Smart People entered the fray with respectable revenues of $4.2 million. There was also a glut of specialized newbies including two Bollywood entries, U, Me Aur Hum with $347,000 at 89 venues and Krazzy 4 racking up $157,000 at 59 sites. The most potent limited releases were the Toronto-preemed drama The Visitor with an $18,800 average at four exposures and the non-fiction geriatric musical Young@Heart that also bowed at four theaters. The torrent of new movies and the holdover strength of other films came up short overall as domestic film going continued its slow ebb. For the industry, summer can't come too soon and mavens are counting the days down to the May 2 release of Iron Man. Prom Night, a remake of the Canadian shocker of the 1980s, did better than the $20 million gross most had predicted in light of a season that's seen just fair results for genre entries. Don't believe the spin that there have been too many horror releases or that its appeal is on the wane. What's on the wane is originality (most have been unnecessary remakes) and vitality and the majors and specialists might be better served to do a little r & d rather than scroll through rights catalogues. Not much was expected for Street Kings based upon a James Ellroy story and it still performed a bit below its anticipated strength. It joins the ranks of such disparate recent releases as Leatherheads and Meet the Browns that opened softer than expected and have experienced more drastic weekly box office drops. Overall business generated roughly $96 million in ticket sales for a slight 1% decline from the prior weekend. However, it was a significant 21% behind the 2007 session when Disturbia, another horror yarn, opened with a virtually identical Prom card of $22.2 million. The critics were high on this weekend's Smart People and The Visitor and sales appeared to confirm that an audience that reads reviews also buys movie tickets. That sector simply isn't as avid as the frequents and the effectiveness of starting slow or wide continues to dog the specialized sector of exhibition. Two of the platformers demonstrate how easy it is to stumble. Young@Heart that's been a festival favorite managed to get across the idea that a heartwarming tale of seniors performing a soft rock repertoire would be an enjoyable alternative. Conversely, Chaos Theory looked just like countless other youth dramas and the absence of something fresh in the mix likely means its roll out will slow to a crawl. - Leonard Klady Weekend Finals - April 11-13, 2008 Title Distrib Weekend % Change* Theaters Cume Wks 1 New Prom Night Sony/Alliance 20,804,941 - 2700 20,804,941 1 2 New Street Kings Fox Searchlight 12,469,631 - 2467 12,469,631 1 3 1 21 Sony 10,470,173 -32% 2736 61,738,420 3 4 2 Nim's Island Fox 9,111,667 -31% 3518 25,391,566 2 5 3 Leatherheads Uni 6,276,665 -50% 2771 21,976,580 2 6 4 Horton Hears a Who Fox 5,920,566 -35% 3209 139,548,920 5 7 New Smart People Miramax 4,092,465 - 1106 4,092,465 1 8 5 The Ruins Par 3,385,395 -58% 2814 13,548,871 2 9 6 Superhero Movie MGM 3,216,247 -41% 2526 21,304,164 3 10 8 Drillbit Taylor Par 2,044,988 -40% 2205 28,436,029 4 11 7 Meet the Browns Lions Gate 1,555,182 -54% 1170 40,098,131 4 12 10 10,000 B.C. WB 1,478,374 -47% 1550 91,753,844 6 13 11 Stop-Loss Par 1,102,718 -51% 1305 10,025,906 3 14 9 Shutter Fox 1,093,946 -61% 1435 24,881,550 4 15 13 The Bank Job Lions Gate 992,188 -42% 802 28,420,868 6 16 15 Shine a Light Par Vantage 960,469 -35% 277 2,887,430 2 17 12 Under the Same Moon Weinstein Co. 953,266 -45% 445 10,337,903 5 18 14 College Road Trip BV 865,026 -49% 1012 42,301,612 7 19 New U, Me Aur Hum Eros 642,923 - 89 642,923 1 20 16 Run Fat Boy Run Picturehouse 587,221 -57% 534 5,430,641 3 21 18 Vantage Point Sony 522,492 -52% 575 71,905,849 8 22 19 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Focus 505,080 -31% 471 11,318,201 6 23 17 Never Back Down Summit 470,511 -58% 713 23,892,829 5 24 30 The Bucket List WB 373,434 80% 390 92,191,070 16 25 22 The Counterfeiters Sony Classics 351,856 -2% 147 3,377,613 8 26 28 The Spiderwick Chronicles Par 327,918 48% 407 70,278,709 9 27 New Krazzy 4 Eros 322,426 - 59 322,426 1 28 21 Juno Fox Searchlight 297,006 -24% 323 143,004,923 19 29 20 The Other Boleyn Girl Sony 295,006 -50% 405 26,604,525 7 30 23 Fool's Gold WB 254,987 -26% 275 69,001,981 10 31 26 Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure nWave 193,849 -21% 47 11,125,054 28 32 24 National Treasure: Book of Secrets BV 192,029 -28% 253 218,979,290 17 33 25 In Bruges Focus 178,357 -28% 163 7,102,257 10 34 39 Step Up 2 the Streets BV 160,266 61% 246 57,581,892 9 35 32 Priceless IDP 151,348 -8% 42 523,377 3 36 29 Jumper Fox 144,008 -32% 209 78,978,177 9 37 33 Flawless Magnolia 141,148 -7% 63 576,599 3 38 27 Alvin and the Chipmunks Fox 139,516 -42% 227 217,075,500 18 39 31 Married Life Sony Classics 129,836 -32% 95 1,197,472 6 40 42 Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus 3-D BV 109,517 30% 13 65,138,443 11 41 RE Bella Roadside/Seville 106,905 - 30 7,846,310 1 42 35 The Band's Visit Sony Classics 104,935 -25% 90 2,614,080 10 43 34 27 Dresses Fox 99,504 -30% 140 76,526,559 13 44 New Emma Smith: My Story Candlelight 94,663 - 36 94,663 1 45 New The Visitor Overture 86,488 - 4 86,488 1 46 76 Persepolis Sony Classics 82,522 251% 147 4,293,233 16 47 55 Penelope Summit 74,483 42% 178 9,745,606 6 48 43 Dolphins and Whales 3-D 3D Entertainment 68,641 -12% 12 962,149 9 49 52 U2 3D nWave 65,675 17% 17 7,427,757 12 50 38 Definitely, Maybe Uni 58,243 -45% 194 32,071,363 9 51 54 Space Station 3-D Imax 57,256 8% 6 74,481,355 312 52 44 Semi-Pro New Line 53,206 -32% 128 33,370,443 7 53 61 Year My Parents Went on Vacation City Lights 51,828 45% 30 558,349 9 54 48 Caramel Roadside Attract. 51,379 -20% 39 863,046 11 55 New Young@Heart Fox Searchlight 50,937 - 4 62,231 1 56 New L'Auberge Rouge TVA 45,777 - 24 45,777 1 57 New Bra Boys Slow Hand 45,589 - 23 45,589 1 58 56 Magnificent Desolation Imax 45,568 -3% 4 23,395,025 133 59 47 Be Kind Rewind New Line 45,386 -31% 84 11,101,937 8 60 New Don Giovanni Bigger Picture 44,784 - 120 44,784 1 61 45 My Blueberry Nights Weinstein Co. 43,753 -41% 6 146,391 2 62 41 Untraceable Sony 42,288 -54% 118 29,120,314 12 63 65 Deep Sea 3-D WB 39,735 32% 10 34,910,975 111 64 53 Snow Angels WIP 37,773 -31% 47 316,317 6 65 36 Doomsday Uni 37,061 -69% 78 11,045,831 5 66 50 Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins Uni 35,209 -41% 56 42,312,236 10 67 51 The Hammer Intl Film Circuit 33,642 -42% 23 373,871 4 68 57 Planet B-Boy Elephant Eye 31,735 -26% 14 191,623 3 69 New Ben X Equinoxe 25,862 - 4 25,862 1 70 62 Flight of the Red Balloon IFC 23,918 -32% 2 75,129 2 71 New Chaos Theory WIP 23,880 - 11 23,880 1 72 82 My Brother is an Only Child Thinkfilm 23,520 19% 12 59,215 3 73 49 The Eye Lions Gate 22,545 -63% 49 31,441,242 11 74 72 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days IFC/Mongrol 21,767 -14% 39 1,364,127 22 75 46 There Will Be Blood Par Vantage 21,349 -69% 40 40,186,823 16 76 74 Diary of the Dead Weinstein Co. 19,421 -23% 36 923,993 9 77 40 Race UTV 18,426 -81% 20 1,367,024 4 78 79 Roving Mars BV 17,330 -20% 10 8,491,344 116 79 71 Paranoid Park IFC/Filmoption 17,311 -39% 24 468,010 6 Source: MCN/EDI   Estimates - April 11-13, 2008 Title Distributor Gross (average) % change * Theaters Cume Prom Night Sony 22.8 (8,450) - 2700 22.8 Street Kings Fox Searchlight 12.1 (4,920) - 2467 12.1 21 Sony 10.6 (3,860) -31% 2736 61.8 Nim's Island Fox 9.0 (2,560) -32% 3518 25.3 Leatherheads Uni 6.1 (2,210) -52% 2771 21.8 Horton Hears a Who Fox 5.8 (1,820) -36% 3209 139.5 Smart People Miramax 4.2 (3,820) - 1106 4.2 The Ruins Par 3.2 (1,120) -61% 2814 13.3 Superhero Movie MGM 3.0 (1,180) -45% 2526 21.1 Drillbit Taylor Par 1.9 (870) -43% 2205 28.2 Meet the Browns Lions Gate 1.6 (1,350) -54% 1170 40.1 10,000 B.C. WB 1.4 (930) -49% 1550 91.7 Stop-Loss Par 1.1 (820) -53% 1305 10 Shutter Fox 1.1 (760) -61% 1435 24.9 The Bank Job  Lions Gate 1.0 (1,210) -43% 802 28.4 Shine a Light Par Vantage 1.0 (3,500) -35% 277 2.9 Under the Same Moon Weinstein Co. .93 (2,090) -46% 445 10.3 College Road Trip BV .84 (830) -51% 1012 42.3 Run Fat Boy Run Picturehouse .57 (1,070) -58% 534 5.4 Vantage Point Sony .55 (960) -49% 575 71.9 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Focus .51 (1,080) -30% 471 11.3 Weekend Total ($500,000+ Films) - $89.30 - - - % Change (Last Year) - -21% - - - % Change (Last Week) - -1% - - - Also debuting/expanding U. Me Aur Hum Eros .35 (3,899) 89 0.35 The Counterfeiters Sony Classics .34 (2,590) -5% 131 3.4 Krazzy 4 Eros .16 (2,660) - 59 0.16 Emma Smith: My Story Candlelight .15 (3,480) - 42 0.15 The Visitor Overture 75,200 (18,800) - 4 0.08 Young@Heart Searchlight 50,300 (12,580) - 4 0.06 Bra Boys Berkela 42,700 (1,860) - 23 0.04 Chaos Theory WIP 22,800 (2,070) - 11 0.02 Dark Matter First Independ. 9,100 (4,550) - 2 0.01 Remember the Daze First Look 2,500 (630) - 4 0.01 Domestic Market Share - To April 10, 2008 Distributor (releases) Gross Market Share Fox (9) 452.1 19.10% Warner Bros. (12) 376.5 15.90% Buena Vista (8) 268.3 11.30% Sony (11) 245.9 10.40% Paramount (8) 224.1 9.40% Lions Gate (7) 144.6 6.10% Universal (7) 143.3 6.00% Fox Searchlight (3) 119.7 5.10% Par Vantage (7) 66.4 2.80% New Line (4) 61.5 2.60% Focus (4) 57.5 2.40% MGM (7) 38.5 1.60% Miramax (3) 38.1 1.60% Summit (2) 33.1 1.40% Overture (2) 20.8 0.90% Other * (95) 81.4 3.40% - 2371.8 100.00% Global Grossers - To March 30, 2008 Title  Distributor Gross I Am Legend WB 270,214,778 National Treasure: Book of Secrets BVI 258,452,003 10,000 B.C. WB 230,668,896 Jumper Fox 198,747,514 Horton Hears a Who Fox 197,609,863 Juno Fox/Mandate 185,142,982 Alvin and the Chipmunks Fox 168,679,687 Cloverfield Paramount 157,903,442 Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis Pathe 157,314,114 The Bucket List WB 148,939,032 27 Dresses Fox/Spyglass 134,783,157 Asterix aux jeux Olympiques Pathe 130,521,428 Vantage Point Sony 126,507,378 The Spiderwick Chronicles Paramount 118,422,878 Sweeney Todd Paramount/WB 125,045,246 Step Up 2 BV/Summit 110,504,896 No Country for Old Men Miramax/Para 110,232,834 P.S. I Love You WB/Summit 109,635,887 Enchanted BV 107,450,510 The Golden Compass New Line 106,921,784 Rambo Lions Gate/NuImage 103,202,282 * does not include 2007 box office   Top Domestic Grossers - To March 27, 2008 Title Distributor Gross Juno * Fox Searchlight 113,564,674 Horton Hears a Who Fox 99,849,148 The Bucket List * WB 90,378,651 National Treasure: Book of Secrets * BV 84,668,814 10,000 B.C.  WB 80,045,351 Cloverfield Par 79,868,530 Jumper Fox 77,984,874 27 Dresses Fox 75,941,603 Alvin and the Chipmunks * Fox 68,973,565 The Spiderwick Chronicles Par 68,646,009 Fool's Gold WB 67,524,778 Vantage Point Sony 66,948,480 Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus Concert in 3-D BV 64,547,158 Step Up 2: The Streets BV 57,001,753 I Am Legend * WB 56,933,914 Rambo Lions Gate 42,754,105 Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins Uni 42,093,210 Atonement * Focus 39,617,946 There Will Be Blood * Par Vantage 39,438,070 First Sunday Sony 38,182,387