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..Noah Forrest
..Leonard Klady
..R.J. Matson
..David Poland
..Douglas Pratt
..Ray Pride
..Michael Wilmington

 

 

Rank	Last Week	Studio	Film	Date	Est Gross	6/29's Est	Comment
1	1	Dis	Pirates of the Caribbean II	July 7	$442m	$442m	Continues to be the F.G.M.E. (Fastest Grossing Movie Ever), though the Shrek 2 fight is tight
2	2	Dis	Cars	June 9	$240m	$235m	Just keeps hanging on... nothing else for the little ones seems safe
3	3	Fox	X-Men: The Last Stand	May 26	$233m	$233m	Under 250 screens this weekend
4	4	Sony	The Da Vinci Code	May 19	$217m	$217m
5	5	WB	Superman Returns	June 28	$195m	$195m	Fighting for image
6	7	DWA	Over The Hedge	May 19	$152m	$152m	xxx
7	8	Par	Mission: Impossible 3	May 5	$134m	$134m	About $355 worldwide
8	6	Sony	Monster House	July 21	$128m	$173m	Should be leggy, but still, the start doesn't suggest Over The Hedge numbers
9	10	Sony	Click	June 23	$127m	$127m	xxx
10	11	Par	World Trade Center	Aug 11	$125m	$125m	Seems poised to break through
11	12	U	The Break Up	June 2	$118m	$116m	Finally fading
12	19	Sony	Talladega Nights	Aug 4	$90m	$75m	Gathering a lot of steam thanks to a lot of ads and people willing to forget Bewitched in the name of a good, hard laugh
13	13	U	Miami Vice	July 28	$89m	$89m	Should open nicely .. give adults a good movie to go to for the next couple of weeks until WTC
14	14	Fox	The Devil Wears Prada	June 30	$155m	$95m	Will cross $100 million today... surprising player
15	16	WB	The Ant Bully	Aug 4	$85m	$85m	Didn't we already see Antz? But will under-10 value drive it to unexpectedly good numbers?
16	18	Par	Nacho Libre	June 16	$80m	$78m	Tight!
17	20	U	You, Me & Dupree	July 14	$70m	$70m	It's bad, but it's got some room until Will Farrell turns up
18	21	NL	Snakes On A Plane	Aug 18	$68m	$68m	Waiting to strike
19	15	WB	Lady in the Water	July 21	$65m	$90m	This film was Gigli'd ... too much so
20	32	Fox	John Tucker Must Die	July 28	$63m	$25m	The next teen girl obsession of the summer
21	22	U	Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift	June 16	$62m	$62m	xxx
22	23	WB	Poseidon	May 12	$61m	$61m	xxx
23	17	Sony	Little Man	July 14	$60m	$80m	Not quite White Chicks... but will it become a French classic?
24	24	Fox	The Omen	June 6	$55m	$55m	xxx
25	25	WB	The Lake House	June 16	$52m	$51m	xxx
26	26	FoxS	Little Miss Sunshine	July 28	$50m	$50m	Good, smart, urban minded movie... will it play in Middle America
27	28	Sony	Zoom	Aug 11	$46m	$36m	Can a veritable remake of last summer's Sky High find a significant place at the table?
28	27	Par	Barnyard	July 28	$45m	$45m	Looks too young even for the under 12s... good for under 8s
29	33	U	Accepted	Aug 11	$33m	$24m	Universal pushing the geeks hard
30	30	TWC	Clerks II: The Passion Of The Clerks	July 21	$28m	$28m	Looks like it will do exactly as I expected
31	31	Fox	Garfield's A Tale Of 2 Kitties	June 23	$28m	$26m	Fox's other disaster movie this summer
32	9	Fox	My Super Ex-Girlfriend	July 21	$25m	$130m	Super Ouch!
33	39	WB	Beerfest	Aug 25	$23m	$17.5m	Selling it as Dodgeball with beer
34	35	WB	Waist Deep	June 23	$22m	$21m	In it's last week
35	36	Dim	DOA: Dead or Alive	Aug 25	$21m	$21m	The German trailer is here
36	38	ParC	An Inconvenient Truth	May 24	$20m	$17m	Will hit 20 and start its Oscar push
37	37	PH	A Prairie Home Companion	June 9	$19m	$18m	Nice run... not the Picturehouse dream, but perhaps the reality
38	34	Focus	Scoop	July 28	$18m	$23m	Not a good movie... though Woody is looking old enough that Scarlett could be his wet nurse
39	40	Fox	Just My Luck	May 12	$17.3m	$17.3m	First studio summer film to go completely out of theatrical
40	41	NL	How To Eat Fried Worms	Aug 25	$17m	$17m	xxx
41	42	Free	An American Haunting	May 5	$16.2m	$16.2m	xxx
42	43	Dim	Pulse	July 14	$13m	$13m	xxx
43	44	U	Idlewild	Aug 25	$9m	$9m	xxx
44	45	NL	Hoot	May 5	$8.1m	$8.1m	xxx
45	46	WIP	A Scanner Darkly	July 7	$5m	$8m	Just couldn't get it rolling
46	47	1stL	The Proposition	May 5	$1.6m	$1.6m	xxx
-	29	Focus	Fearless	Sept 22	n/a	$30m	xxxMOVED

THE COLUMN Week 15 - 7/20 Week 14 - 7/13 Week 14: Miami Vice Review Week 13 - 7/6 Week 12 - 6/29 Week 11 - 6/22 Week Ten - 6/15 Week Nine - 6/8 Week Eight - 6/1 Week Seven - 5/25 Week Six - 5/18 Week Five- 5/11 Week Four - 5/4 Week Three - 4/27 Week Two - 4/20 Week One - 4/13

THE BOX OFFICE CHARTS Week 14 - 7/13 Week 13 - 7/6 Week 12 - 6/29 Week 11 - 6/22 Week Ten - 6/15 Week Nine - 6/8 Week Seven - 5/25 Week Six- 5/18 Week Five - 5/11 Week Four - 5/4 Week Two - 4/20 Week One - 4/13

 

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