A day later and this weekend is still a mess, although it's fairly clear what will end up on top (Sony's 30 Days of Night) and what will end up near the bottom (DreamWorks' Things We Lost in the Fire) with a lot of movies squooshed in between. Helped by the biggest theatre count for a new movie, Fox Atomic's sports comedy The Comebacks should be able to squeeze out the adult dramas for third place with under $10 million, and Ben Affleck's Gone, Baby, Gone should be helped by positive reviews to give Rendition a run for fourth place despite opening in nearly 500 fewer theatres, though it also might lose some of its audience to the other movies.
Paramount Vantage will expand Sean Penn's Into the Wild into just over 650 theatres this weekend, which should allow it to make roughly $2.3 - 2.5 million, not enough to get into the Top 10. It will probably end up around the same area as the animated The Ten Commandments which will be opening in 830 theatres, building on the potential to find a Christian audience, and both should do better than Freestyle Releasing's Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour, which may have trouble making a million dollars. Disney's rerelease of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas in Disney Digital 3D into over 500 theatres should bring the movie another $3 million or slightly more, again not enough to get into the crowded Top 10.
1. 30 Days of Night (Sony) - $21.6 million N/A (up .9 million)
2. Why Did I Get Married? (Lionsgate) - $10.8 million -49% (same)
3. The Comebacks (Fox Atomic) - $9.4 million N/A (up .2 million)
4. Rendition (New Line) - $8.2 million N/A (down .3 million)
5. Gone Baby Gone (Miramax) - $7.7 million N/A (up .9 million)
6. The Game Plan (Disney) - $7.6 million -35% (up .3 million)
7. Michael Clayton (Warner Bros.) – $6.3 million -40% (up .3 million)
8. We Own the Night (Sony) - $6.0 million - 45% (up .2 million)
9. The Heartbreak Kid (DreamWorks) - $4.0 million -45% (up .1 million)
10. Things We Lost in the Fire (DreamWorks) - $3.8 million N/A (up .2 million)
