Weekend Box Office

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE ESTIMATE Aug. 3 - Aug. 5, 2007
	Title	Engagements	Estimated Weekend Box Office
1.	The Bourne Ultimatum (UNIV)	3,660	$70.0
2.	The Simpsons Movie (FOX)	3,926	$25.6
3.	Underdog (BV)	3,013	$12.0
4.	I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (UNIV)	3,289	$10.5
5.	Hairspray (NEW LINE)	3,115	$9.3
5.	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (WB)	3,125	$9.3
7.	No Reservations (WB)	2,425	$6.6
8.	Transformers (PAR)	2,419	$6.0
9.	Hot Rod (PAR)	2,607	$5.0
10.	Bratz (LIONSGATE)	1,509	$4.3
in millions of dollars

Full list available Monday afternoon at www.variety.com/boxoffice

Box Office Results

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE ESTIMATE July 20 - July 22, 2007 Title Engagements Estimated Weekend Box Office 1. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (UNIV) 3,495 $34.8 2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (WB) 4,285 $32.2 3. Hairspray (NEW LINE) 3,121 $27.8 4. Transformers (PAR) 3,762 $20.5 5. Ratatouille (BV) 3,402 $11.0 6. Live Free or Die Hard (FOX) 2,727 $7.3 7. License to Wed (WB) 2,525 $3.8 8. 1408 (MGM) 1,451 $2.6 9. Evan Almighty (UNIV) 1,779 $2.4 10. Knocked Up (UNIV) 1,288 $2.3 in millions of dollars

Full list available Monday afternoon at www.variety.com/boxoffice

It's all about Harry Potter

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE ESTIMATE July 13 - July 15, 2007
	Title	Engagements	Estimated Weekend Box Office
1.	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (WB)	4,285	$77.4
2.	Transformers (PAR)	4,050	$36.0
3.	Ratatouille (BV)	3,625	$18.0
4.	Live Free or Die Hard (FOX)	3,201	$10.9
5.	License to Wed (WB)	2,715	$7.4
6.	1408 (MGM)	2,206	$5.0
6.	Evan Almighty (UNIV)	2,702	$5.0
8.	Knocked Up (UNIV)	1,715	$3.7
9.	Sicko (TWC)	756	$2.7
10.	Ocean's Thirteen (WB)	1,244	$1.9
in millions of dollars

Full list available Monday afternoon at www.variety.com/boxoffice

Movies Opening June 29th

A small opening weekend coming up, mostly because of the July 4th holiday; a big opening day in the world of summer movies. The big movies of the weekend are Sicko and Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille. Also opening is Martian Child, Vitus and You Kill Me. Movies that opened Wednesday was Ghost of Cite Soliel and Die Hard 4 aka Live Free or Die Hard. What is with all these older movies coming out back out. Arent they all getting to old for the action movies?

Ratatouille


Nine Minutes of the movie


Live Free or Die Hard


You can watch the first 8 minutes of this movie over at Yahoo!

Movies Opening June 22

As this is a hobby, real life sometimes takes precedence over it. So now I am going to try to catch you up with the latest movie releases of the past two weeks.

Here is what opened June 22nd:

The two biggest opening of last weekend was Evan Almighty and A Mighty Heart. Neither impressed box office watchers. I posted the trailer to A Mighty Heart a few weeks ago.


1408
Black Sheep
Broken English.
D.O.A.: Dead or Alive
Lady Chatterley

What to watch this weekend

Movies that are out in theatres this weekend: You know the usually jist, trailers and stuff. I call this a slum weekend, because there is only really one major movie opening. Smart actually. Ok maybe two major movies.


Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer


Nancy Drew



Here are some other limited releases. Not everyone is into The Fanstastic Four. I don't blame you.


Blood and Tears
DOA: Dead or Alive
Fido
Macbeth
No One
The Trials of Darryl Hunt
USA: Inside the War on Abortion

And for those of you who love the really limited releases, you have to live in NY to see Strike and NY or L.A. to see Eagle vs. Shark. Bummer.

Ocean's 13 tops the box office.

Captain fell to the fellas of Ocean's 13. Pirates of the Caribbean came in second place making only 21 million dollars. As animated films go, Surf's Up flopped, opening 4th making 17.6million. Shrek the 3rd rounded up the top 5 with 15.3 million.

• 1. Ocean's Thirteen - $36.1M

  - 20 hours ago

  Danny Ocean and his band of thieves return, this time teaming up with their old nemesis, Terry Benedict.

• 2. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - $21.1M

  - 20 hours ago

  Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) are allied with Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) in a desperate quest to free Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from his mind-bending trap in Davy Jones\' loc...

• 3. Knocked Up - $19.6M

  - 20 hours ago

  Allison Scott is an up-and-coming entertainment journalist whose 24-year-old life is on the fast track. But it gets seriously derailed when a drunken one-nighter with slacker Ben Stone results in an unwanted pregnancy. Faced with ...

• 4. Surf's Up - $17.6M

  - 20 hours ago

  Based on the groundbreaking revelation that surfing was actually invented by penguins. In the film, a documentary crew will take audiences behind the scenes and onto the waves during the most competitive, heartbreaking and dangero...

• 5. Shrek the Third - $15.3M

  - 20 hours ago

  Shrek tackles the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

Yahoo! Movies

What's at the Movies Today

Watch the trailers for the big releases of the weekend. Will Captain Jack prevail for a third week at the box-office? I was suprised that with all the talk about Knocked Up, it did not become the number movie last week.

Ocean's 13


Hostel 2


Surf's Up

Movies Opening Today

Place to be last night. At a movie theater near you @ 8 p.m. That is when the general public had the chance to see Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Disney publicized their decision to not wait for the midnight showing and show it a few hours earlier. The other movie studios are smart, because this long holiday weekend, POTC is the only major film released today. ( I give this film a A++) Some people are over the Pirates, so there are other smaller movies that are now in theaters. I recommend Amu. Previews are below. :)

Amu

Angel-A

Bug

Golden Door

Paprika

Movies Opening Today

Shrek the Third is in theaters today! Don't know who Shrek is? Check out the trailer! Hopefully this one is better than the second, although I think nothing tops the original.
( Do you know the Muffin Man?)





Also opening today: (Click the Title to view the trailer.)

The Wendell Baker Story (Trendy Featured Movie)
Captivity
Even Money
Fay Grim
Once
Severance

Movies Opening Friday May11th

Here are the trailers for 28 Weeks Later and Georgia Rule both opening tomorrow.

28 Weeks Later

Georgia Rule


Also opening nationwide tomorrow:

Delta Farce
The Ex


The Salon starring Vivica A. Fox opens in limited release tomorrow. The trailer is below.



Other limited releases opening May 11th:

Blind Dating
The Hip Hop Project
Life in a...Metro
Provoked
Showbusiness

Links:
http://www.newmoviefriday.com/
Youtube