- 'Avatar' Opening Weekend
Poll: How much will it gross? - Daily Box Office
Wed, November 18 - Daily Box Office
Tue, November 17 - Weekend Predictions
Early: 'Twilight' $111.1M - Daily Box Office
Mon, November 16
Midnight #s: 'New Moon' Record $26.3M, Original 'Twilight' $1.3M That easily beats the $22.2 million collected by "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" | Variety |
Early Midnight #s: 'New Moon' $23-$24M, potentially record-breaking Rival studios are telling me this morning that Summit Entertainment's New Moon debuted with $23M-$24 | Nikki Finke |
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Early Sat #s: '2012' $25.5M, 'Christmas' $10.4M 2012 opened as a runaway No. 1 with $23.7 million Friday and $25.5M Saturday (+8%) from 3,404 theate | Nikki Finke |
| movie title | predicted | change | est. sites | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twilight: New Moon | $111.1 | NEW | 4250 |
| 2 | 2012 | $28.4 | -56% | 3404 |
| 3 | The Blind Side | $17.5 | NEW | 3150 |
| 4 | A Christmas Carol | $15.3 | -31% | 3683 |
| 5 | Precious | $10.2 | +73% | 850 |
Flash box office chart is now on every daily and weekend box office page.
| The Hangover | Sherlock Holmes | G.I. Joe |
| Paranormal Activity | Avatar | Surrogates |
| Black Dynamite | Up in the Air | Boondock Saints 2 |
| The Hurt Locker | A Serious Man | |
| Capitalism | The Informant! |
Lee's Grades: Twilight: New Moon C+2012 CManagement C+Shrink B-Precious B-Men Stare at Goats C+Black Dynamite BBoondock Saints 2 D+This Is It B- Wild Things... B-
Top Movies of 2009 (by total gross)
| 1. | Transformers 2 | $402,076,689 |
| 2. | Half-Blood Prince | $301,707,444 |
| 3. | Up | $292,913,068 |
| 4. | The Hangover | $276,942,541 |
| 5. | Star Trek | $257,704,099 |
Top Opens of 2009 (3-day weekend)
| 1. | Transformers 2 | $108,966,307 |
| 2. | Wolverine | $85,058,003 |
| 3. | Half-Blood Prince | $77,835,727 |
| 4. | Star Trek | $75,204,289 |
| 5. | Fast and Furious | $70,950,500 |
Top Distributors of 2009 (theatrical)
| 1. | Paramount | $730,079,525 |
| 2. | 20th Century Fox | $539,381,862 |
| 3. | Sony Pictures | $517,449,231 |
| 4. | Warner Brothers | $479,491,333 |
| 5. | Buena Vista Pictures | $456,266,794 |
Top Longevity of 2009 (total / open)
| 1. | The Hangover | 6.16 |
| 2. | Taken | 5.87 |
| 3. | The Proposal | 4.87 |
| 4. | Ice Age 3 | 4.71 |
| 5. | Julie and Julia | 4.67 |


