Weekend Box Office (Sept 18-20)

1. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Sony) - $23.8 million N/A
2. Jennifer's Body (20th Century Fox) - $14.7 million N/A
3. The Informant! (Warner Bros.) - $12.2 million N/A
4. Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself (Lionsgate) - $10.8 million -54%
5. Love Happens (Universal) - $8.5 million N/A
6. 9 (Focus Features) - $6.0 million -44%
7. Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company/Universal) - $3.8 million -42%
8. All About Steve (20th Century Fox) - $3.1 million -45%
9. The Final Destination (New Line/WB) - $2.9 million -48%
10. Whiteout (Warner Bros.) - $2.5 million -51%


I'm starting to believe more and more in Jennifer's Body. 2nd place behind Cloudy seems like a pretty sure thing.

I thought Buscemi would get a kick out of this... Look at the question in the middle of the page.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/index

Was Megan Fox on sedatives when that picture was taken?

I love the results

LOL @ that question...

JB midnight show did pretty well, about the same as Tyler Perry last week.

I'll slightly change my prediction on Jennifer's Body: $8 million. No more than that. And expect half of that to come from the opening day total. It will drop once people realize that it is a comedy.

And one more thing:

Spoiler:

I am very unsure about how this weekend will pan out. I think Jennifer's Body will do pretty well. The Informant! should perform decently. Cloudy will for sure do well. But as usual we will see what happens.

I thought everyone knew that they cut her nude scene...

So it will be on the unrated DVD

Umm...Meagan Fox won't ever need to do a nude scene. Her in clothes is enough. I mean, a nude scene would be nice...but Audrey Hepburn didn't need a nude scene.

IPKI$$ wrote:Umm...Meagan Fox won't ever need to do a nude scene. Her in clothes is enough. I mean, a nude scene would be nice...but Audrey Hepburn didn't need a nude scene.

She isn't in the same class as Audrey Hepburn. Audrey Hepburn had talent. Megan Fox only gets work because people want to see her nude.

I was looking at some early reports and it looks like Jennifer's Body will bomb. Most of the crowd reports mentioned auditoriums being only half-filled at best (at night). Afternoon shows were only about 10-25% full. Meanwhile, Love Happens and The Informant were generally 35-50% in the afternoon and more than that at night.

Reports came from Box Office Mojo.

EXCLUSIVE EARLY BOX OFFICE: CLOUDY W/A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS targets $28.5M. Megan Fox tanks!

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS easily wins the weekend with a possible $28.5M; Tyler Perry likely to hold off Steven Soderberg's THE INFORMANT! for #2; New pics starring Jennifer Aniston & Megan Fox tank!


1. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Sony) - $7.7M Fri - $28.6M 3-day - $28.6M cume
2. Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself (Lionsgate) - $3.11M Fri - $10.8M 3-day - $38.7M cume
3. The Informant! (Warner Bros) - $3.3M Fri - $9.25M 3-day - $9.25M cume
4. Love Happens (Universal) - $2.8M Fri - $7.8M 3-day - $7.8M cume
5. Jennifer's Body (Fox) - $2.82M Fri - $6.85M 3-day - $6.85M cume

Cloudy does well, Informant! does OK, Love Happens did OK considering its screen count, JB bombs.

DHD breakdown

1. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs $8 million for Friday's opening in 3,119 theaters, which bodes well for a $30M debut weekend.

2. The Informant! $3.7M Friday in 2,505 runs for a paltry estimated $11M weekend.

3. Love Happens $3.2M in 1,898 venues. it could be just a $9M weekend.

4. I Can Do Bad By Myself for Lionsgate placed 4th with a $3M Friday (-65% from a week ago) and should get to $9.5M and 3rd by weekend's end.

5. And not even Megan Fox's body could tempt moviegoers into Twentieth's R-rated feminist horror flick Jennifer's Body, DOA with $2.7M Friday from 2,707 dates and it probably will do a pathetic $7M weekend.

6. 9 (Focus) Week 2 [2,060] $1.6M Friday (-51%), Est Wkd $5.5M
7. Inglorious Basterds (Wein/Uni) $1.2M Fri, Est Wkd $4.5M
8. All About Steve (Fox) Week 3 [2,159] $1.1M Fri, Est Wkd $3.5M
9. The Final Destination (Warner) Week 3 [1,805] $1.1M Fri, Est Wkd $3.5M
10. Sorority Row (Summit) Week 2 [2,591] $925K (-53%), Est Wkd $2.8M

BarcaRulz wrote:JB bombs.

Woo hoo! Party at Buscemi's house!!

Specifics on the party:

1.Bring your own beer.
2.Ignore the cat.
3.Don't question me.
4.The party starts at 7:00 pm and will include a triple feature of Slither, Shaun Of The Dead and Hellboy. Friday will be screened for remaining guests.
5.Free cereal to anyone who makes it through all four films.

Only if the cereal is Lucky Charms ("they're magically delicious!")


BOM's estimates for Friday:

1. Cloudy $8.1M
2. Informant $3.6M
3. Tyler Perry $3.1M
4. Love Happens $3.0M
5. Jennifer $2.8M
6. 9 $1.6M
7. Basterds $1.2M
8. Steve $1.1M
9. Sorority $0.9M
10. Final $0.7M

I'll go for the free cereal

Wow, Boosh! Guess that puts you at 130-900 lifetime so far.

LOL, how does Friday fit in with the rest of that line-up?

BOM's Weekend Estimates:

Top 5

5 points - Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - $30.1M
4 points - The Informant! - $10.54M
3 points - Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself - $10.1M
2 points - Love Happens - $8.45M
1 points - Jennifer's Body - $6.8M


PTA

5 points - Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - $9,651
4 points - Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself - $4,461
3 points - Love Happens - $4,455
2 points - The Informant! - $4,210
1 point - The September Issue - $3,530

Keep in mind, however, that neither The Burning Plain nor Paris has been added to the mix just yet.

Early User Ratings for new films:

Cloudy - 6.8
Jennifer's Body - 5.8
Love Happens - 5.9
Paris - 6.9
Burning Plain - 6.9
Informant - 7.8

And Tyler Perry is now down to 1.9.

Looks like I was also close on Jennifer's Body's IMDb rating. I predicted 5.5 and it's a 5.8.

Wow, 1.9 seems low even for a TP movie.

Yeah, that is low even for Tyler Perry. That's really bad. Good thing its raking in top 5 and pta points.

Looks like Paris jumps into the #2 spot for PTA. Glad I picked it up instead of Youth in Revolt. Phew. Looks like The Burning Plain crashed and...umm...burned?