Kate Hudson and Matthew McConnaughey's Fool's Gold took first place, despite being panned by critics, and Martin Lawrence's comedy Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins did a respectable amount of business and placed second. Hannah Montana fell 67% into third place, but still did extremely well for a movie playing on only 687 screens. By contrast, Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show played on 962 screens but failed to crack even a half million and landed in 24th place. Here's the rundown.
1. Fools Gold $21.5 million
1. Fools Gold $21.5 million
2. Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins $16.2 million
3. Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour $10.2 million
4. The Eye $6.5 million
5. Juno $5.6 million
We've got four new releases this week, with me personally looking forward to Jumper the most.
Definitely, Maybe
What's It All About: Ryan Reynolds and Abigail Breslin star in a story about a man recounting how he came to meet his daughter's mother.
Why It Might Do Well: Breslin is cute as a button and she was great in Little Miss Sunshine. With the world basking in the glow of Valentine's Day, a romantic comedy stands a pretty good chance. Besides, rottentomatoes.com is giving this one an encouraging 83% fresh rating.
Why It Might Not Do Well: Have you no heart, people? I said she's cute.
Number of Theaters: 2,200
Prediction: $11 million
Jumper
What's It All About: Hayden Christensen plays a young man with the power to teleport and he finds himself hunted by a society sworn to kill people with his abilitiy. Samuel L. Jackson is in there too.
Why It Might Do Well: The trailers look cool, and a film about super human powers starring two former Jedi Knights seems like a natural. I think this will be our number one movie.
Why It Might Not Do Well: Film goers looking for a fantasy fix may opt for The Spiderwick Chronicles instead.
Number of Theaters: 3,350
Prediction: $29 million
We've got four new releases this week, with me personally looking forward to Jumper the most.
Definitely, MaybeWhat's It All About: Ryan Reynolds and Abigail Breslin star in a story about a man recounting how he came to meet his daughter's mother.
Why It Might Do Well: Breslin is cute as a button and she was great in Little Miss Sunshine. With the world basking in the glow of Valentine's Day, a romantic comedy stands a pretty good chance. Besides, rottentomatoes.com is giving this one an encouraging 83% fresh rating.
Why It Might Not Do Well: Have you no heart, people? I said she's cute.
Number of Theaters: 2,200
Prediction: $11 million
JumperWhat's It All About: Hayden Christensen plays a young man with the power to teleport and he finds himself hunted by a society sworn to kill people with his abilitiy. Samuel L. Jackson is in there too.
Why It Might Do Well: The trailers look cool, and a film about super human powers starring two former Jedi Knights seems like a natural. I think this will be our number one movie.
Why It Might Not Do Well: Film goers looking for a fantasy fix may opt for The Spiderwick Chronicles instead.
Number of Theaters: 3,350
Prediction: $29 million
The Spiderwick ChroniclesWhat's It All About: A family moves into their uncle's old mansion, and find themselves drawn into a world of faeries and other magical creatures.
Why It Might Do Well: This one looks tailor-made for the legions of Harry Potter fans who can't wait for the next installment of that series, and Spiderwick has its own fans having been based on a series of novels. Also, an 88% fresh rating at rottentomatoes.com is nothing to sneeze at (unless, of course, you're allergic to tomatoes).
Why It Might Not Do Well: Spiders give a lot of people the willies.
Number of Theaters: 3,500
Prediction: $23 million
Step Up 2 the StreetsWhat's It All About: A rebellious street dancer finds herself at the prestigious Maryland School For the Arts, but keeps in touch with her roots by training for an underground dance competition.
Why It Might Do Well: The first installment in the series had a $20.6 million opening weekend and went on to gross $114 million worldwide. Not bad for a movie that cost $12 million to make.
Why It Might Not Do Well: Jumper and Spiderwick both have strong youth appeal and may cut into the take for this one.
Number of Theaters: 2,300
Prediction: $17 million
Here's how I think next week's top five will look:
1. Jumper
2. The Spiderwick Chronicles
3. Step Up 2 The Streets
4. Fool's Gold
5. Definitely Maybe
Here are the results from last week's competition. Unfortunately, votes that came in after the 5:00 PM Friday deadline were not counted. In order to keep this fair to everyone the deadline is being strictly enforced. Congratulations to uforeader for taking first place.
1. uforeader: 11
1. uforeader: 11
2. Gregory Rubinstein: 9
2. AJ Wiley: 9
2. Matt: 9
3. Mike: 6
3. Smiggy: 6
3. Anna07: 6
4. Ray: 6
5. Lee S: 4
6. Aaron: 3
Post your predictions for the top five movies in the comments section below before 5:00PM on Friday. One point for every top five movie correctly named, two points for every correct placement, and one extra point for the top movie. Make me proud, people.
Post your predictions for the top five movies in the comments section below before 5:00PM on Friday. One point for every top five movie correctly named, two points for every correct placement, and one extra point for the top movie. Make me proud, people.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-13-2008 @ 5:54PM
Lee S said...
1) Spiderwick
2) Jumper
3) Definitely Maybe
4) Step Up 2
5) Fool's Gold
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2-13-2008 @ 6:22PM
Mike said...
1. Jumper
2. Definitely Maybe
3. Step Up
4. Fool's Gold
5. Spiderwick
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2-13-2008 @ 6:43PM
Gregory Rubinstein said...
1. Jumper
2. Definitely Maybe
3. The Spiderwick Chronicles
4. Step Up 2 the Streets
5. Fool's Gold
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2-13-2008 @ 7:23PM
Ryan S. said...
I personally think Jumper will tank:
1)Spiderwick
2)Defently, Maybe
3) Fool's Gold
4) Jumper
5) Juno
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2-13-2008 @ 7:54PM
Jmoney said...
I think Jumper will do good, Spiderwick will do ok. Then again Step Up 2 might be #1 (hey no one expected the first to do good). Definitely, Maybe will bomb. Havent seen any tv spots for it. Same goes for spiderwick but I think audiences have more knowledge of this than definitely. Here's my guess:
1.Jumper
2.Step Up 2
3.Spiderwick
4.Fool's Gold
5.Juno
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2-13-2008 @ 9:53PM
Knifey James said...
Considering just about all of these are aimed at teens (save for Spiderwick), and judging by what I've heard at school, Step Up will be number one. Jumper with a close second, then Definitely Maybe, then Spiderwick.
1. Step Up 2
2. Jumper
3.Definitely Maybe
4. Spiderwick
5. 27 Dresses? (Hey, it's a romance)
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2-13-2008 @ 11:10PM
Ray said...
1. Jumper
2. Step Up 2
3. The Spiderwick Chronicles
4. Fool's Gold
5. Definitely, Maybe
Step Up made $114 MILLION? Holy crap.
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2-14-2008 @ 4:27AM
Jason said...
I just saw Jumper. Usually you expect the detritus to be deposited in February, but this film was excellent. I would have liked to see more character development for Sam Jackson's evil dude, but I think he can do that in the sequel :D
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2-14-2008 @ 4:46AM
AJ Wiley said...
Jmoney, you may not have seen any TV spots for Definitely, Maybe, but from my POV, the marketing has been incessant.
1. Jumper
2. Definitely, Maybe
3. The Spiderwick Chronicles
4. Fool's Gold
5. Step Up 2 the Streets
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2-14-2008 @ 12:21PM
ABIRD0006 said...
1-Jumper
2-Step Up2
3-Fool's Gold
4-Definetly Maybe
5-Spiderwick
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2-15-2008 @ 10:53AM
Smiggy said...
Jumper
Spiderwick
Step Up 2
Definitely, Maybe
Fool's Gold
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2-15-2008 @ 12:03PM
James Wagner said...
Spiderwick
Defently, Maybe
Jumper
Fool's Gold
Step Up2
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