Being that this week's column was late, this is the fastest update for predictions, most of them being done because my estimated theatre counts were so off. For instance, The Hunting Party (Weinstein Co.) is not opening wide on Friday after all, probably due to the less than great showing in its platform release and Dragon Wars (Freestyle) is getting more theatres this weekend and apparently, it's built a lot of buzz for itself over the past week, possibly due to the title sounding like something cool and worth watching. I still think that it will have a really low per-theatre average, doing most of its business in the big cities like L.A. and little elsewhere, but it should do better than tenth place at this point.
Either way, it's Jodie Foster for the win this weekend thanks to her regular audience and having 500 more theatres than the other two new movies.
1. The Brave One (Warner Bros.) - $16.8 million N/A
2. 3:10 to Yuma (Lionsgate) - $8.2 million -42%
3. Mr. Woodcock (New Line) - $7.2 million N/A
4. Superbad (Sony) - $5.0 million - 35%
5. Halloween (Dimension) - $4.5 million - 52%
6. Dragon Wars (Freestyle) - $3.8 million N/A
7. The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal) - $3.4 million - 40%
8. Balls of Fury (Rogue) - $3.1 million - 45%
9. Shoot ‘Em Up (New Line) - $2.9 million - 47%
10. Rush Hour 3 (New Line) - $2.8 million - 45%
