It was a slow weekend at the box office, but the competition for B.O. champ was exciting nonetheless. A mere $300,000 separated the No. 1 and No. 2 films, while just half a mil stood between the No. 3 and No. 4 movies. Here is what I predicted the top five flicks would be this weekend ...
1. The Hitcher
2. Stomp the Yard
3. Night at the Museum
4. Dreamgirls
5. The Pursuit of Happyness
And the actual top five were ...
1. Stomp the Yard - $13.3 million
2. A Night at the Museum - $13.0 million
3. Dreamgirls - $8.7 million
4. The Hitcher - $8.2 million
5. The Pursuit of Happyness - $6.7 million
Get the full box office report here.Although all of my picks were in the top five, my faith in scantily clad, shotgun-weilding heroines in horror flicks proved more lethal than picking up a deranged hitchhiker. 'The Hitcher,' the week's only new wide release and my pick for No. 1, earned just $8.2 million, good enough for a fourth place finish ahead of Will Smith's 'Pursuit of Happyness' ($6.7 million). Meanwhile, last week's box office victor, 'Stomp the Yard,' narrowly defeated Ben Stiller's blockbuster with very long legs, 'Night at the Museum,' which has now grossed a whopping $206 million. Rounding out the top five was 'Dreamgirls,' which saw its box-office take jump from $8.1 million last week to $8.7 million this week, most likely the result of its Best Picture win at last Monday's Golden Globes. Also of note this week was the strong performance of 'Pan's Labyrinth,' the mesmerizing adult fairy tale from Spanish director Guillermo del Toro. The film improved its box office 118% this week, grossing $4.7 million and catapulting it from 18th place last weekend to seventh place this weekend. The reason: It's just that good.
Of those of you who posted box-office picks, two predicted 'Stomp the Yard' would repeat as box-office champ, but no one guessed all five slots correctly. The high score this week goes to Liesse00 with 12 points. Congrats!
Name - This Week/Overall
- Patricia - 7 points/135 points
- zsxxx03 - 8/133
- chrisnbn - 7/129
- Mario/crzydcguy84 - 7/111
- Bubba8193 - 7/ 95
- Liesse00 - 12/85
- Tangoeco - 7/80
- Isaac/laraeruiz - 0/66
- bostons leppard - 7/61
- Evilone1414 - 7/26
- MrPKI - 0/6
- Lazy Bum - 0/9
- Evilone1414 - 7/26
1. I guess 'The Hitcher' didn't come in first, oh well.
This weekend is going to the hard...really hard.
'Smokin' Aces' comes out which was voted to make the most $$$ in January. So I'm guessing it'll make the top five.
'Epic Movie' looks funny and movies like that always do good. Last year 'Date Movie' came out at about the same time and did well.
'Blood and Chocolate' also comes out. Part of me says it has no chance of making the top 5 and the other part says it'll at least make #5.
'Catch and Release' comes out and the movie looks okay. But I have no clue if it'll have what it takes to make the top five. I'm leaning towards it not making the top five because it looks like the typical romantic comedy, but those seem to do good. So I really don't know
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Posted at 5:20PM on Jan 22nd 2007 by Bubba8193