Definitely looks like we underestimated the power of the ten-year-old girls in the country, because since our earlier predictions, many of the screenings of Hannah Montana and Miley Cirus' concert movie have sold out through advance sales on Fandango, who reported two days ago that ticket sales for the movie have made up 91% of their sales over the last week. Another thing that wasn't taken into consideration is the $15 - 20 being charged by some theaters for tickets to the movie which apparently isn't much longer than an hour, which means they'll be able to get a lot more screenings in. Both of these things would point to a much bigger opening than we previously predicted, showing a similar fanaticism for the movie as for the Hannah Montana concert tour last year. What that in mind, we can expect Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: The Best of Both Worlds to take the top spot and potentially try to set a new per-theatre average record although the business might be very much frontloaded to the Friday screenings.
This puts Lionsgate's The Eye at #2 with roughly the amount we predicted originally and everything else much along the same line as before, although the spoof comedy Meet the Spartans will probably tank this weekend after a dismal week where it was down from #1 to #5 by Wednesday.
1. Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: The Best of Both Worlds… (Disney) - $20.6 million N/A (up $7 million!)
2. The Eye (Lionsgate) - $14.4 million N/A (Up .2 million)
3. Rambo (Lionsgate) - $8.5 million - 53%
4. 27 Dresses (20th Century Fox) - $8.2 million -39%
5. Juno (Fox Searchlight) - $7.4 million -27%
6. Meet the Spartans (20th Century Fox) - $7.0 million -63% (down .9 million)
7. Over Her Dead Body (New Line) - $6.8 million N/A (up .2 million)
8. The Bucket List (Warner Bros) - $6.5 million -38%
9. Cloverfield (Paramount) - $6.1 million -53%
10. Untraceable (Sony/Screen Gems) - $6.0 million -47%
11. There WIll Be Blood (Paramount Vantage) - $4.6 million -6%
12. Strange Wilderness (Paramount) - $3.5 million N/A
