I’ll take the animation at the top of the charts, fending off Due Date and For Colored Girls. It’s partly a theater count consideration, but mostly it’s due to the demographic reach of Megamind, which is far more than comedy or drama. Let’s break this thing down!
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2. Due Date
An interesting attempt, but it won’t generate much word of mouth. I look for it to do a little better than 50 percent of Hangover‘s opening per theater number.
Prediction: $26.84 million
$8,000 per theater, not shabby, and it’s interesting to note this is going wide right from the outset, unlike last year’s adaptation, Precious.
Prediction: $17.01 million
4. Saw 3D
A 55 percent drop at the box office, keep the change. The Saw franchise is somewhat back! Okay, that’s not very definitive, sorry, the verdict is still out.
Prediction: $10.14 million
It will drop less than Saw 3D, but it’s also starting way lower.
Prediction: $7.76 million
6. Red
Red has held on nicely, but $76m on a $58m budget still isn’t paying the bills. Maybe a nice DVD treatment will do the trick?
Prediction: $7.65 million
7. Jackass 3D
I’m advocating that the Jackass and Paranormal franchises combine powers to form one inexpensive (but profitable) superpower.
Prediction: $3.74 million
9. Secretariat
The very best holdover of the weekend, just like Secretariat himself.
Prediction: $3.16 million
Could be challenged by Life as We Know It for the tenth spot.
Prediction: $1.97 million
How say you? Do I have the order all wrong again? Are my dollars and cents flawed? Weigh in now, Brad will be back on Sunday to wrap us up!
