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Rank	Last Week	Studio	Film	Date	Est Gross	5/25's Est	Comment
1	1	Dis	Pirates of the Caribbean II	July 7	$390m	$390m	Still the one 4-quadrant smash
2	2	WB	Superman	June 28	$275m	$240m	Profile improving... but still a superhero movie
3	6	Fox	X-Men: The Last Stand	May 26	$225m	$180m	Good enough... but not great
4	3	Sony	The Da Vinci Code	May 19	$220m	$230m	Oh how the world loves our mediocrity
5	4	Dis	Cars	June 9	$195m	$195m	Opening should be an unusually significant indicator on this kids' film
6	5	Sony	Click	June 23	$190m	$190m	Sandler's baby should be better off than Cruise's baby
7	7	Sony	Monster House	July 21	$173m	$173m	Critics will have many, many chances to see this one
8	8	DWA	Over The Hedge	May 19	$145m	$165m	CG animation fatigue
9	9	Par	Mission: Impossible 3	May 5	$130m	$130m	All Cruised out
10	10	Par	World Trade Center	Aug 11	$125m	$125m	Schmaltz is love.
11	11	U	Miami Vice	July 28	$110m	$110m	-
12	12	U	You, Me & Dupree	July 14	$101m	$101m	-
13	17	U	The Break Up	June 2	$95m	$74m	It sucks... but it opened. There are many theories about who or what did the trick
14	13	WB	Lady in the Water	July 21	$90m	$90m	-
15	14	WB	The Ant Bully	Aug 4	$85m	$85m	-
16	16	Sony	Talladega Nights	Aug 4	$75m	$75m	Are critics ready to embrace Will Ferrell? Does it matter?
17	15	Par	Nacho Libre	June 16	$65m	$80m	I'm still waffling on this one... the intensity of people who want to see it is major, but JB really turns off a lot of people amd the movie itself is more of an acquired taste than even NapDy.
18	18	Sony	Little Man	July 5	$64m	$64m	Able to leap tall movies in a single joke. It's a bird (middle finger). It's profane. It's...
19	19	U	Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift	June 16	$63m	$63m	-
20	20	WB	Poseidon	May 12	$60m	$60m	-
21	21	Fox	Super Ex-Girlfriend	July 21	$58m	$58m	-
22	24	Fox	The Omen	June 6	$56m	$45m	Big Tuesday opening... will shit roll downhill or up?
23	22	Fox	Garfield's A Tale Of 2 Kitties	June 23	$55m	$55m	-
24	23	NL	Snakes On A Plane	Aug 18	$53m	$48m	-
25	33	FoxS	Little Miss Sunshine	July 28	$50m	$19m	The second trailer raises it in class... though they should lose the pull quotes
26	25	Sony	Zoom	Aug 11	$36m	$36m	-
27	26	Focus	Fearless	Aug 4	$30m	$30m	-
28	27	TWC	Clerks II: The Passion Of The Clerks	July 21	$28m	$28m	-
29	28	WB	The Lake House	June 16	$25m	$25m	-
30	29	WB	The Reaping	Aug 11	$24.5m	$24m	-
31	30	U	Accepted	Aug 11	$24m	$24m	-
32	31	Fox	The Devil Wears Prada	June 30	$23m	$23m	Can it break off the coasts?
33	32	Dim	DOA: Dead or Alive	Aug 25	$21m	$21m	-
34	34	Par	Barnyard	July 28	$18m	$18m	-
35	35	WB	Beerfest	Aug 25	$17.5m	$17m	-
36	36	NL	How To Eat Fried Worms	Aug 25	$17m	$17m	-
37	37	Free	An American Haunting	May 5	$16.5m	$16.5m	-
38	38	Fox	John Tucker Must Die	July 28	$16m	$16m	-
39	39	Fox	Just My Luck	May 12	$15m	$15m	-
40	40	WIP	A Scanner Darkly	Jun 24	$14.5m	$14.5m	-
41	41	Diim	Pulse	July 14	$13m	$13m	-
42	42	U	Idlewild	Aug 25	$12m	$12m	-
43	43	WB	Waist Deep	June 23	$11m	$11m	-
44	44	BM	Harsh Times	June 2	$10m	$10m	-
45	45	NL	Hoot	May 5	$9m	$9m	-
46	46	BM	I Could Never Be Your Woman	July 28	$6.5m	$6.5m	-
47	48	ParC	An Inconvenient Truth	May 24	$6m	$3m	-
48	47	1stL	The Proposition	May 5	$3.1m	$3.1m	-
49	49	BM	Fragile	Aug 4	$3m	$3m	-
50	50	PH	A Prairie Home Companion	June 9	$2.5m	$2.5m	-

Week Nine - 6/8 | The Chart
Week Eight - 6/1
Week Seven - 5/25 | The Chart
Week Six - 5/18 | The Chart
Week Five - 5/11 | The Chart
Week Four - 5/4 | The Chart
Week Three - 4/27
Week Two - 4/20 | The Chart
Week One - 4/13 | The Chart

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