Sunday, March 18, 2007

US Box Office Review (estimates)

1st - 300 - $31.2m
2nd - Wild Hogs - $18.8m
3rd - Premonition - $18m
4th - Dead Silence - $7.8m
5th - I Think I Love My Wife - $5.7m

For the second week in a row 300 ruled the US box office by a huge margin. Down a steep but understandable 57% in its second week, the film collected an estimated $31.2m from 3,270 theatres for a healthy average. The total so far stands at just over $127m and at this rate the movie could end up close to, if not over, the $200m mark.

Second place went to Wild Hogs, another film which joined the century club this weekend. Down a mere 32% to $18.8m, the total now stands at $104m. The Disney movie has been holding well since its release and should end up in the $150m-$165m range.

The top 5 was rounded with three poorly reviewed openers. All ready listed in the rotten tomatoes 100 worst reviewed movies of all time, premonition still managed to scare up $18m
this weekend. With a budget of only $20m, the picture should go on to make reasonably good money for Sony. Hopefully that won't result in talk of a sequel.

Another horror, Dead Silence, opened in fourth place with $7.8m, closely folowed by Chris Rock's I Think I Love My Wife with a meagre $5.7m. Long term prospects don't look good for either movies.

For a more detailed analysis of the Box Office results head over to Box Office Guru or Box Office Mojo.

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