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Do you have to be Albert Einstein to figure out that this Chauncey Billups shot shouldn't count?
Clearly, the clock was stuck at 4.8 seconds then started late with Billups finally getting his 3-pointer off at .5 seconds. The shot should not have been allowed. What's the point of having replay if you're not allowed to use it. TNT had the ability to show a real-time replay with a clock superimposed on the screen, but the league's replay rules don't allow for reviewing a play to determine when the clock started.
Did the "illegitimate 3" matter? Orlando had a 6-point lead with 6 minutes left in the 4th quarter at the Palace, so they were able to rally back from the bogus shot that gave Detroit a 1-point lead at the end of the 3rd, but there is no way to know how the proper call might have influenced the outcome.
Detroit has notoriously tough fans. Somehow, I think that if the same situation had occurred in Orlando, common sense might have prevailed. It's easier to take points off the scoreboard for the road team. It's also easier to take some time and get the call right when you don't have thousands of angry Pistons fans in your face.
It's still a shame. If you've got instant replay, why not take the time to make the right call. A little common sense and logic should rule the day.
Ross Siler, formerly of the LA Daily News, is now writing for the Salt Lake Tribune, and he re-counted this funny Luke Walton-Sasha Vujacic story on his blog today.
Either last season or the season before, Luke Walton was signing autographs outside the
Lakers hotel in Indianapolis. One of the kids had a binder of
basketball cards and was flipping through it when Walton hit the mother
lode. He saw a rookie card for Vujacic that can only be described as a
basketball glamour shot.
Not only did he sign everything he
could for that kid outside the hotel, Walton bought the Vujacic card
off him. Then he had a member of the Lakers public relations staff
photocopy it about 10,000 times. They were destined to be hung all over
the banquet room where the Lakers were going to watch the Super Bowl on
the road.
I never heard about Vujacic's reaction, but I'm
guessing it was embarrassment. In his fourth year with the Lakers,
Vujacic has shed the label Phil Jackson once gave him as an "11 o'clock
shooter" (great in practice, bad in games) and has become a dependable
reserve on one of the NBA's deepest teams.
I'm pretty sure that the above photo is the one that was photocopied 10,000 times.
Carlos Boozer says that the only way that the Utah Jazz can survive their second round series with the Lakers is to defend Kobe Bryant better and to keep him off the line. Kobe was 21-23 from the charity stripe yesterday at Staples, and it was clearly the difference in LA’s 109-98 win.
That’s an excellent strategy Carlos. I can’t believe that nobody ever thought of that.
This is the problem with playing the Lakers. You can try going one-on-one with Kobe, and he’ll kill you. Or, you can throw the “kitchen sink” at Kobe and Pau Gasol will make you pay.
The Denver series was a great test case for how deadly the Lakers are. In Game 1, the Nuggets sent everybody after Kobe and Gasol lit ‘em up for 36 and 16 boards. In Game 2, they threw just one man, mostly Kenyon Martin, at Bryant, and Kobe went for 49.
If you were listening to 710 ESPN last week, you probably heard that I messed up my back.
I've never really had back problems before, but I took a yoga class last Wednesday night, and all of the sudden my lower back seized up. On Thursday, I called in sick. There was just no way I could even get out of bed. Then came a real "Catch 22."
When I called the doctor, I told him that I needed pain pills or an anti-inflammatory or a muscle relaxant. He said that I had to go to his office to get a prescription. I explained there was just no way that I could get to his office without some pharmaceutical help. He still refused to dole out any magic pills.
Finally, I got a friend to throw me in the back of his SUV, and I made it to the doctor's office. I had to use a cane (embarrassing), and I had to sprawl across the back seat of the SUV because I couldn't sit upright (more embarrassing).
The bottom line is that I'm still struggling, but I think I'll be on the air Monday. In pain, but on the air. For the record, I was diagnosed with a lumbar strain.
Before the start of the new MLB season, I predicted that new Japanese pitcher Hiroki Kuroda would win the National League Rookie of the Year Award. After one start, my prediction looks good.
There's a great story about Kuroda in the Sunday LA Times written by Dylan Hernandez, the Dodger beat writer who speaks Japanese. After Kuroda gave up that Friday night homer to Brian Giles, catcher Russell Martin tried to tell him to calm down in Japanese, but apparently screwed it up. The correct word is "ochitsuite," but it took Hiroki awhile to figure out what Martin was trying to say.
Hernandez joined me on The Steve Mason Show Friday to talk about his unique heritage, his relationship with Takashi Saito and Hiroki Kuroda and his thoughts on how good this 2008 Dodger team can be. Kuroda looked spectacular Friday night. He keeps the ball down, has a very level demeanor and should thrive in the pitcher-friendly parks in the NL West (Dodger Stadium, Petco Park and AT&T Park in San Francisco).
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SATURDAY NIGHT: It's been a disappointing weekend for Hollywood as holdover 21 (Sony) has trumped 3 new wide studio releases. Based on Ben Mezrich's Bringing Down the House, 21 grabbed another $6.35M on Saturday, and the Kevin Spacey-produced card-counting thriller will wrap up its second weekend with a solid $15.5M.
Fox's Nim's Island, from Walden Media, received a nice 49% Friday-to-Saturday increase for $5.73M, but the Jodie Foster/Abigail Breslin vehicle will limp to an underwhelming $13.48M 3-day. That should ne just enough to nose out George Clooney's Leatherheads (Universal), which could only muster $5.44M on Saturday. The world's greatest modern day movie star will likely manage only $13.42M and a 3rd place finish.
Meanwhile, Horton Hears a Who (Fox) continues to excel with another $4M Saturday and a probable $9.29M 3-day. The Ruins (Dreamworks/Paramount), produced by Ben Stiller, is a full-on disaster. The grisly R-rated flick will only bank $7.85M this weekend.
Martin Scorsese's Shine a Light (Paramount Vantage) is only a minor success. Despite Oscar winning director, legendary rock band the Rolling Stones and the lure of IMAX, the rock doc only sold $910,000 in tickets on Saturday, and it will settle for an underwhelming $2.15M opening 3-day.
The best 3-day Per Theatre Average for the weekend belongs to IFC's Flight of the Red Balloon with $18,500 per. Wong Kar-Wai’s My Blueberry Nights (Weinstein) will likely be #2 in the PTA race with an estimated $10,600, followed by the Jewish-themed Jellyfish (Zeitgeist), Shine a Light and Ebrem Entertainment's gay film A Four Letter Word.
EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS EARLY 3-DAY PTA ESTIMATES
1. NEW – Flight of the Red Balloon (IFC Films) – 2 locations - $18,500 PTA
2. NEW – My Blueberry Nights (Weinstein) – 5 locations - $10,600 PTA
3. NEW – Jellyfish (Zeitgeist) – 4 locations - $9,250 PTA
4. NEW – Shine a Light (Paramount Vantage) – 276 locations - $7,815 PTA
5. A Four Letter Word (Ebrem Entertainment) – 1 location - $6,228 PTA
6. 21 (Sony) – 2,653 locations - $5,845 PTA
7. Priceless (IDP Films) – 26 locations - $5,385 PTA
8. My Brother is an Only Child (Thinkfilm) – 5 locations - $5,000 PTA
9. Leatherheads (Universal) – 2,777 locations - $4,833 PTA
10. Sex and Death 101 (Anchor Bay) – 3 locations - $4,6687 PTA
EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS EARLY SATURDAY ESTIMATES
1. 21 (Sony) - $6.35M - $2,394 PTA - $43M cume
2. NEW – Nim’s Island (Fox) - $5.7M - $1,633 PTA - $9.58M cume
3. NEW – Leatherheads (Universal) - $5.44M - $1,962 PTA - $9.98M cume
4. Horton Hears a Who (Fox) - $4.05M - $1,134 PTA - $128.5M cume
5. NEW – The Ruins (Dreamworks/Paramount) - $3.19M - $1,134 PTA - $5.94M cume
6. Superhero Movie (MGM/Weinstein) - $2.36M - $798 PTA - $15.5M cume
7. Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns (Lionsgate) - $1.69M - $1,088 PTA - $36.8M cume
8. Drillbit Taylor (Paramount) - $1.41M - $522 PTA - $24.6M cume
9. Shutter (Fox) - $1.25M - $591 PTA - $22.5M cume
10. 10,000 B.C. (Warner Bros) - $1.17M - $501 PTA - $88.4M cume
11. Stop Loss (Paramount/Dreamworks) - $985,000 - $761 PTA - $7.6M cume
12. NEW – Shine a Light (Paramount Vantage) - $910,000 - $3,297 PTA - $1.52 cume
13. College Road Trip (Disney) - $905,000 - $531 PTA - $40.6M cume
14. The Bank Job (Lionsgate) -$790,000 - $664 PTA - $26.3M cume
15. Under the Same Moon (Weinstein) - $710,000 - $1,625 PTA - $8.3M cume
16. Run Fatboy Run (Picturehouse) - $615,000 - $552 PTA - $4.1M cume
*Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Focus) - $310,000 - $616 PTA - $10.3M cume
*The Counterfeiters (Sony Classics) - $156,000 - $1,357 PTA - $2.6M cume
*In Bruges (Focus) - $97,000 - $513 PTA - $6.7M cume
*Married Life (Sony Classics) - $84,000 - $712 PTA - $909,000 cume
*The Band's Visit (Sony Classics) - $65,000 - $546 PTA - $2.1M cume
*Priceless (IDP Films) - $63,000 - $2,423 PTA - $238,000 cume
*Flawless (Magnolia) - $54,000 - $1,862 PTA - $294,000 cume
*Snow Angels (Warner Independent) - $20,500 - $446 PTA - $233,000 cume
*NEW – My Blueberry Nights (Weinstein) - $20,000 - $4,000 PTA - $38,000 cume
*Shelter (Regent) - $17,000 - $1,700 PTA - $69,000 cume
*NEW – Flight of the Red Balloon (IFC Films) - $16,000 - $8,000 PTA - $26,000 cume
*Planet B-Boy (Elephant Eye Films) - $16,000 - $1,600 PTA - $129,000 cume
*NEW – Jellyfish (Zeitgeist) - $15,000 - $3,750 PTA - $26,000 cume
*NEW – Meet Bill (First Look) - $15,000 - $417 PTA - $30,000 cume
*My Brother is an Only Child (Thinkfilm) - $12,000 - $2,400 PTA - $32,000 cume
*The Grand (Anchor Bay) - $12,000 - $1,091 PTA - $67,000 cume
*NEW – Sex and Death 101 (Anchor Bay) - $7,242 - $2,414 PTA - $9,123 cume
*Chapter 27 (Peace Arch)- $5,688 - $1,138 PTA - $29,000 cume
*Happy Valley (Independent) - $4,493 - $1,123 PTA - $41,000 cume
*NEW – 3 Amis (Independent) - $2,374 - $791 PTA - $5,305 cume
*A Four Letter Word (Ebrem Entertainment) - $2,248 - $2,248 PTA - $20,000 cume
*Boarding Gate (Magnolia) - $1,870 - $1,870 PTA - $32,000 cume
*NEW – Tuya’s Marriage (Music Box Pictures) - $1,247 - $1,247 PTA - $1,833 cume
*NEW – Water Lilies (Koch Lorber) - $1,208 - $1,208 PTA - $2,116 cume
*NEW – The Unknown Woman (Independent) - $659 - $329 PTA - $1,705 cume
*Backseat (Truly Indie) - $421 - $210 PTA - $9,200 cume
EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS REVISED 3-DAY ESTIMATES
1. 21 (Sony) - $15.5M - $5,845 PTA - $46.9M cume
2. NEW – Nim’s Island (Fox) - $13.48M - $3,839 PTA - $13.48M cume
3. NEW – Leatherheads (Universal) - $13.42M - $4,833 PTA - $13.42M cume
4. Horton Hears a Who (Fox) - $9.29M - $2,603 PTA - $131.2M cume
5. NEW – The Ruins (Dreamworks/Paramount) - $7.85M - $2,793 PTA - $7.85M cume
6. Superhero Movie (MGM/Weinstein) - $5.45M - $1,839 PTA - $16.9M cume
7. Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns (Lionsgate) - $3.47M - $2,238 PTA - $37.7M cume
8. Drillbit Taylor (Paramount) - $3.39M - $1,256 PTA - $25.4M cume
9. Shutter (Fox) - $2.9M - $1,368 PTA - $23.2M cume
10. 10,000 B.C. (Warner Bros) - $2.73M - $1,170 PTA - $89.2M cume
11. Stop Loss (Paramount/Dreamworks) - $2.4M - $1,859 PTA - $8.3M cume
12. NEW – Shine a Light (Paramount Vantage) - $2.15M - $7,815 PTA - $2.1M cume
13. College Road Trip (Disney) - $1.92M - $1,132 PTA - $41.1M cume1
14. The Bank Job (Lionsgate) -$1.78M - $1,499 PTA - $26.8M cume
15. Under the Same Moon (Weinstein) - $1.79M - $4,088 PTA - $9M cume
16. Run Fatboy Run (Picturehouse) - $1.43M - $1,285 PTA - $4.4M cume
*Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Focus) - $705,000 - $1,402 PTA - $10.5M cume
*The Counterfeiters (Sony Classics) - $333,000 - $2,896 PTA - $2.7M cume
*In Bruges (Focus) - $221,000 - $1,169 PTA - $6.8M cume
*Married Life (Sony Classics) - $185,000 - $1,568 PTA - $958,000 cume
*The Band's Visit (Sony Classics) - $130,000 - $1,092 PTA - $2.1M cume
*Priceless (IDP Films) - $140,000 - $5,385 PTA - $274,000 cume
*Flawless (Magnolia) - $120,000 - $4,138 PTA - $326,000 cume
*Snow Angels (Warner Independent) - $48,000 - $1,043 PTA - $249,000 cume
*NEW – My Blueberry Nights (Weinstein) - $53,000 - $10,600 PTA - $53,000 cume
*Shelter (Regent) - $38,000 - $3,800 PTA - $83,000 cume
*NEW – Flight of the Red Balloon (IFC Films) - $37,000 - $18,500 PTA - $37,000 cume
*Planet B-Boy (Elephant Eye Films) - $43,000 - $4,300 PTA - $141,000 cume
*NEW – Jellyfish (Zeitgeist) - $37,000 - $9,250 PTA - $37,000 cume
*NEW – Meet Bill (First Look) - $40,000 - $1,111 PTA - $40,000 cume
*My Brother is an Only Child (Thinkfilm) - $25,000 - $5,000 PTA - $39,000 cume
*The Grand (Anchor Bay) - $33,000 - $3,000 PTA - $79,000 cume
*NEW – Sex and Death 101 (Anchor Bay) - $14,000 - $4,667 PTA - $14,000 cume
*Chapter 27 (Peace Arch)- $14,000 - $2,800 PTA - $31,000 cume
*Happy Valley (Independent) - $11,411 - $2,853 PTA - $44,000 cume
*NEW – 3 Amis (Independent) - $6,777 - $2,259 PTA - $6,777 cume
*A Four Letter Word (Ebrem Entertainment) - $6,228 - $6,228 PTA - $22,000 cume
*Boarding Gate (Magnolia) - $3,790 - $3,790 PTA - $33,000 cume
*NEW – Tuya’s Marriage (Music Box Pictures) - $2,655- $2,655 PTA - $2,655 cume
*NEW – Water Lilies (Koch Lorber) - $2,864 - $2,864 PTA - $2,864 cume
*NEW – The Unknown Woman (Independent) - $2,114 - $1,057 PTA - $2,114 cume
*Backseat (Truly Indie) - $2,516 - $1,258 PTA - $9,474 cume
FRIDAY NIGHT: It looked as though it could be a good weekend at America’s multiplexes. With Oscar winner George Clooney bringing his directorial skills and charm to Leatherheads (Universal), two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster and Little Miss Sunshine’s Abigail Breslin in the family-themed Nim’s Island (Fox) and Ben Stiller’s production company unleashing the film adaptation of Scott B. Smith’s The Ruins (Dreamworks/Paramount), studios and exhibitors certainly had high hopes. Instead, it’s all too quiet at box offices.
Sony’s holdover 21 will score a second consecutive weekend blackjack after grabbing $5.01M on its second Friday. The Kevin Spacey-produced card-counting thriller should reach $15M for the 3-day, which will be enough to win the weekend and bring its 10-day domestic cume to a healthy $46.4M.
The Clooney-directed Leatherheads, also starring Oscar winner Renee Zellweger and John Krasinski from NBC’s The Office, has struggled to only $4.55M on its opening day, compared to an equally lackluster $4.1M for Nim’s Island. The Foster/Breslin family film will likely wind up no. 2 for the weekend with about $14.35M compared to $14.1M or so for the period football comedy.
For Foster, Nim’s Island is only the sixth-best opening of her career.
ALL-TIME TOP 10 JODIE FOSTER OPENINGS
1. Panic Room - $30M opening
2. Inside Man - $28.9M opening
3. Flight Plan - $24.6M opening
4. Contact - $20.5M opening
5. Maverick - $17.2M opening
6. Nim’s Island - $14.35M opening (estimate)
7. Silence of the Lambs - $13.7M opening
8. The Brave One - $13.4M opening
9. Sommersby - $8.1M opening
10. Anna & the King - $5.2M opening
And for Clooney, arguably our most popular movie star, Leatherheads is only the seventh-best opening of his already legendary career.
ALL-TIME TOP 10 GEORGE CLOONEY OPENINGS
1. Batman & Robin - $42.8M opening
2. The Perfect Storm - $41.3M opening
3. Ocean’s Twelve - $39.1M opening
4. Ocean’s Eleven - $38.1M opening
5. Ocean’s Thirteen - $36.1M opening
6. Three Kings - $15.8M opening
7. Leatherheads - $14.1M opening (estimate)
8. Intolerable Cruelty - $12.5M opening
9. The Peacemaker - $12.3M opening
10. Out of Sight - $12M opening
Fox’s Horton Hears a Who is continuing to hold strong. The well-reviewed CGI animated film topped $2.6M in sales on Friday, and it’ll finish no. 4 for the weekend with an estimated $9.1M. Horton’s new domestic cume will be $131M by Monday morning.
The Ben Stiller-produced The Ruins, a grisly, R-rated horror flick based on a popular novel, scared up just $2.7M on Friday, and that will likely translate to only $7.2M for the weekend, good for fifth place. The market for horror movies that are rated R is dead. Expect to see more films in the genre to show up with PG-13 ratings, appealing to a broader audience like last year’s 1408 and the recent Shutter.
Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Stones doc Shine a Light (Paramount Vantage) has opened decently at 276 locations, many of those with big-screen IMAX presentations. Excellent reviews have helped the film to about $610,000 on its opening day, and it’ll likely grab $2.1M for the weekend for a $7,625 PTA, fourth-best Per Theatre Average for the frame.
IFC’s Flight of the Red Balloon seems headed for the best 3-day PTA of the weekend. My early rough estimate is for the French film starring Juliette Binoche to finish the weekend with about $18,000 at each of its two theatrical engagements. Meanwhile, Wong Kar-Wai’s My Blueberry Nights (Weinstein), on five screens, should generate about $13,000 per, followed by the Jewish-themed Jellyfish (Zeitgeist), Shine a Light, and Magnolia holdover Priceless, starring Audrey Tatou.
EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS EARLY 3-DAY PTA ESTIMATES
1. NEW – Flight of the Red Balloon (IFC Films) – 2 locations - $18,000 PTA
2. NEW – My Blueberry Nights (Weinstein) – 5 locations - $13,000 PTA
3. NEW – Jellyfish (Zeitgeist) – 4 locations - $10,250 PTA
4. NEW – Shine a Light (Paramount Vantage) – 276 locations - $7,625 PTA
5. Priceless (IDP Films) – 26 locations - $6,231 PTA
6. A Four Letter Word (Ebrem Entertainment) – 1 location - $6,000 PTA
7. 21 (Sony) – 2,653 locations - $5,677 PTA
8. Leatherheads (Universal) – 2,777 locations - $5,079 PTA
9. Flawless (Magnolia) – 29 locations - $4,655 PTA
10. My Brother is an Only Child (Thinkfilm) – 5 locations - $4,400 PTA
EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS EARLY FRIDAY ESTIMATES
1. 21 (Sony) - $5.01M - $1,892 PTA - $36.4M cume
2. NEW – Leatherheads (Universal) - $4.55M - $1,475 PTA - $4.55M cume
3. NEW – Nim’s Island (Fox) - $4.1M - $1,285 PTA - $4.1M cume
4. NEW – The Ruins (Dreamworks/Paramount) - $2.7M - $960 PTA - $2.7M cume
5. Horton Hears a Who (Fox) - $2.62M - $735 PTA - $124.5M cume
6. Superhero Movie (MGM/Weinstein) - $1.7M - $574 PTA - $13.1M cume
7. Drillbit Taylor (Paramount) - $1.07M - $399 PTA - $23.1M cume
8. Shutter (Fox) - $1.06M - $503 PTA - $21.3M cume
9. Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns (Lionsgate) - $1M - $644 PTA - $35.2M cume
10. 10,000 B.C. (Warner Bros) - $825,000 - $353 PTA - $87.3M cume
11. Stop Loss (Paramount/Dreamworks) - $775,000 - $599 PTA - $6.6M cume
12. NEW – Shine a Light (Paramount Vantage) - $610,000 - $2,210 PTA - $610,000 cume
13. The Bank Job (Lionsgate) -$500,000 - $421 PTA - $25.5M cume
14. College Road Trip (Disney) - $485,000 - $284 PTA - $39.7M cume
15. Run Fatboy Run (Picturehouse) - $445,000 - $399 PTA - $3.5M cume
16. Under the Same Moon (Weinstein) - $405,000 - $927 PTA - $7.6M cume
*Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Focus) - $205,000 - $408 PTA - $10M cume
*The Counterfeiters (Sony Classics) - $87,000 - $757 PTA - $2.4M cume
*In Bruges (Focus) - $67,000 - $354 PTA - $6.6M cume
*Married Life (Sony Classics) - $52,000 - $441 PTA - $824,000 cume
*Priceless (IDP Films) - $41,000 - $1,577 PTA - $175,000 cume
*Flawless (Magnolia) - $34,000 - $1,172 PTA - $240,000 cume
*The Band's Visit (Sony Classics) - $32,000 - $269 PTA - $2M cume
*NEW – My Blueberry Nights (Weinstein) - $18,000 - $3,536 PTA - $18,000 cume
*NEW – Meet Bill (First Look) - $15,000 - $403 PTA - $15,000 cume
*Planet B-Boy (Elephant Eye Films) - $15,000 - $1,500 PTA - $113,000 cume
*Snow Angels (Warner Independent) - $12,000 - $261 PTA - $213,000 cume
*NEW – Jellyfish (Zeitgeist) - $11,000 - $2,680 PTA - $11,000 cume
*NEW – Flight of the Red Balloon (IFC Films) - $10,000 - $4,886 PTA - $10,000 cume
*The Grand (Anchor Bay) - $9,000 - $818 PTA - $55,000 cume
*Shelter (Regent) - $7,250 - $725 PTA - $52,000 cume
*Chapter 27 (Peace Arch)- $6,250 - $1,250 PTA - $24,000 cume
*My Brother is an Only Child (Thinkfilm) - $5,190 - $1,038 PTA - $19,502 cume
*Happy Valley (Independent) - $3,713 - $928 PTA - $36,000 cume
*NEW – 3 Amis (Independent) - $2,931 - $977 PTA - $2,931 cume
*A Four Letter Word (Ebrem Entertainment) - $1,922 - $1,922 PTA - $18,000 cume
*NEW – Sex and Death 101 (Anchor Bay) - $1,881 - $627 PTA - $1,881 cume
*Backseat (Truly Indie) - $1,830 - $915 PTA - $8,788 cume
*NEW – The Unknown Woman (Independent) - $1,046 - $523 PTA - $1,046 cume
*NEW – Water Lilies (Koch Lorber) - $908 - $908 PTA - $908 cume
*Boarding Gate (Magnolia) - $685 - $685 PTA - $2,192 cume
*NEW – Tuya’s Marriage (Music Box Pictures) - $636 - $636 PTA - $636 cume
EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS EARLY 3-DAY ESTIMATES
1. 21 (Sony) - $15.05M - $5,677 PTA - $46.4M cume
2. NEW – Nim’s Island (Fox) - $14.35M - $4,085 PTA - $14.35M cume
3. NEW – Leatherheads (Universal) - $14.1M - $5,079 PTA - $14.1M cume
4. Horton Hears a Who (Fox) - $9.1M - $2,558 PTA - $131M cume
5. NEW – The Ruins (Dreamworks/Paramount) - $7.29M - $2,592 PTA - $7.29M cume
6. Superhero Movie (MGM/Weinstein) - $5.01M - $1,693 PTA - $16.5M cume
7. Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns (Lionsgate) - $3.45M - $2,220 PTA - $37.6M cume
8. Drillbit Taylor (Paramount) - $3.34M - $1,236 PTA - $25.4M cume
9. Shutter (Fox) - $2.99M - $1,409 PTA - $23.3M cume
10. 10,000 B.C. (Warner Bros) - $2.81M - $1,205 PTA - $89.3M cume
11. Stop Loss (Paramount/Dreamworks) - $2.32M - $1,797 PTA - $8.2M cume
12. NEW – Shine a Light (Paramount Vantage) - $2.1M - $7,625 PTA - $2.1M cume
13. The Bank Job (Lionsgate) -$1.77M - $1,493 PTA - $26.8M cume
14. Under the Same Moon (Weinstein) - $1.66M - $3,800 PTA - $8.8M cume
15. College Road Trip (Disney) - $1.6M - $939 PTA - $40.8M cume
16. Run Fatboy Run (Picturehouse) - $1.35M - $1,217 PTA - $4.4M cume
*Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Focus) - $720,000 - $1,431 PTA - $10.5M cume
*The Counterfeiters (Sony Classics) - $375,000 - $3,261 PTA - $2.7M cume
*In Bruges (Focus) - $245,000 - $1,296 PTA - $6.8M cume
*Married Life (Sony Classics) - $192,000 - $1,627 PTA - $965,000 cume
*Priceless (IDP Films) - $162,000 - $6,231 PTA - $296,000 cume
*The Band's Visit (Sony Classics) - $138,000 - $1,160 PTA - $2.1M cume
*Flawless (Magnolia) - $135,000 - $4,655 PTA - $341,000 cume
*NEW – My Blueberry Nights (Weinstein) - $65,000 - $13,000 PTA - $65,000 cume
*NEW – Meet Bill (First Look) - $50,000 - $1,389 PTA - $50,000 cume
*Snow Angels (Warner Independent) - $41,000 - $891 PTA - $242,000 cume
*NEW – Jellyfish (Zeitgeist) - $41,000 - $10,250 PTA - $41,000 cume
*Planet B-Boy (Elephant Eye Films) - $39,000 - $39,000 PTA - $137,000 cume
*NEW – Flight of the Red Balloon (IFC Films) - $36,000 - $18,000 PTA - $36,000 cume
*The Grand (Anchor Bay) - $29,000 - $2,636 PTA - $75,000 cume
*Shelter (Regent) - $25,000 - $2,500 PTA - $70,000 cume
*My Brother is an Only Child (Thinkfilm) - $22,000 - $4,400 PTA - $37,000 cume
*Chapter 27 (Peace Arch)- $18,000 - $3,600 PTA - $35,000 cume
*Happy Valley (Independent) - $11,100 - $2,775 PTA - $44,000 cume
*NEW – 3 Amis (Independent) - $10,250 - $3,417 PTA - $10,250 cume
*NEW – Sex and Death 101 (Anchor Bay) - $6,500 - $2,167 PTA - $6,500 cume
*A Four Letter Word (Ebrem Entertainment) - $6,000 - $6,000 PTA - $22,000 cume
*Backseat (Truly Indie) - $5,000 - $2,500 PTA - $12,000 cume
*NEW – The Unknown Woman (Independent) - $3,609 - $1,804 PTA - $3,609 cume
*NEW – Water Lilies (Koch Lorber) - $3,133 - $3,133 PTA - $3,133 cume
*NEW – Tuya’s Marriage (Music Box Pictures) - $2,194- $2,194 PTA - $2,194 cume
*Boarding Gate (Magnolia) - $2,192 - $2,192 PTA - $32,000 cume
It would be great if ESPN's Pedro Gomes was right. An All SoCal World Series would be great for me and the sports radio biz in LA, but Pedro backed off of this pick when he joined me on Th Steve Mason Show on Monday. (Here the conversation here.)
Gomez, and me for that matter, are shaky about the Angels because of the loss of Cy Young contenders Kelvim Escobar (for the year) and John Lackey (for a month or so). Thank God that the Halos traded Orlando Cabrera for John Garland or they would be in even bigger trouble.
Here are my thoughts on the 2008 season. I'm calling for an Indians-Dodgers World Series with, regrettably, the Tribe winning it all.
AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST
MY PICK: RED SOX
No Curt Schilling to the All-Star break…
Josh Beckett should be available this month, but can he stay healthy….
Dice-K is solid…
Wakefield is Wakefield…
Jon Lester and Clay Bucholz show flashes of greatness…
Love the 2 kids at the top of the lineup….Elsbury and Pedroia….setting up Big Papi and Manny.
Okajima and Papelbon in the bullpen….
AMERICAN LEAGUE CENTRAL
MY PICK: INDIANS
Sabbathia, Fausto Carmona and Jake Westbrook give them a great 1-2-3
Joe Borowski somehow gets it done as closer…
Grady Sizemore is a star…
Great young hitters…with lots of upside….
Asdrubal Cabrera, Ryan Garko, Franklin Guttierez, Jhonny Peralta…
I'm not as high on Detroit, and I think that they'll miss the playoffs.
The Tigrs lineup is filled with aging stars…
Ivan Rodriguez – 37
Placido Polanco – 33
Garry Sheffield – 40
Magglio Ordonez – 34
Carlos Guillen – 33
Edgar Renteria – 33
Jacque Jones – 33
Only 2 starters under 30…
Miguel Cabrera and Brandon Inge…
Justin Verlander is a stud, but Jeremy Bonderman is inconsistent…Kenny Rogers is old…Not sold on Dontrelle Willis…
& Todd Jones may be the shakiest full-time closer in baseball…
AMERICAN LEAGUE WEST
MY PICK: MARINERS
Love the 1-2 of Feliz Hernandez and Erik Bedard
Carlos Silva, Miguel Batista and Jarrod Washburne all had ERAs under 4.4 last year…
JJ Putz…big time closer
Ichiro at the top of the lineup…
3 good young players improving…
2b Jose Lopez showing flashes of power…
C Kenji Johjima
SS Yuneski Betencourt
Sexson and Beltre are hurt by the ballpark, but will still drive in runs.
AL WILD CARD
MY PICK: ANGELS
Loss of Kelvim Escobar is devastating…
John Lackey gone for at least a month…
Jered Weaver was great in spring training…
Jon Garland is a huge get…
Joe Saunders needs to step up…
Everin Santana will bounce back…
Bullpen is a excellent and better when Scot Shields comes back…
AL CY YOUNG – Erik Bedard
AL MVP – Grady Sizemore
AL ROY – Jacoby Elsbury
NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST
MY PICK: BRAVES
I know everybody loves the Mets.
The Braves have a killer core of young guys…
Mark Texiera
Brian McCann
Kelly Johnson
Jeff Francour
Matt Diaz
Yunel Escobar hit 300 in 300+ abs last year…
Like the old starters…
Glavine and smoltz one more time…
Tim Hudson is still solid…
Mike Hampton had a terrific spring
Jair Jurjens is a sleeper…was solid with Detroit in stretches last year…
Like Peter Moylen setting up Rafael Soriano
NATIONAL LEAGUE CENTRAL
MY PICK: MILWAUKEE
Another team with a great core of young players who have a high ceiling.
Prince Fielder
Rickie Weeks
JJ Hardy
Ryan Braun
Corey Hart
Rotation….Love Ben Sheets…
Dave Bush will bounce back…
Manny Parra is a budding star…
Love Carlos Villanueva in the 5 spot…
Eric Gagne will bomb…
Guillermo Mota will wind up setting up David Riske…
NATIONAL LEAGUE WEST
MY PICK: DODGERS
Excellent balance and deep bench. These guys either are already or will be stars.
Matt Kemp
Andre Ethier
Russell Martin
James Loney
Great rotation….Chad Billingsley will pitch like a #1 starter…
Hiroki Kuroda will win ROY. Can't go wrong with Penny and Lowe.
Saito is a money closer
Joe Torre heals old wounds.
NL WILD CARD
MY PICK: METS
Johan Santana is a superstar John Maine is solid.
Pedro (already hurt) and El Duque…big question marks…
Like Oliver Perez a lot.
Delgado is tailed off. Catcher is a "black hole."….Endy Chavez in LF??? …Luis Castillo at 2B??? This team is all about the 2 "R's." Wright and Reyes.
NL MVP – David Wright
NL CY YOUNG – Ben Sheets
NL ROY – Hiroki Kuroda
That's my brother Brian, his wife Susie, my niece Morgan and my genius nephew Hunter. They are the Macionskys (yes, that's my real last name) from Delta, Ohio.
Hunter is a great athlete, playing basketball and baseball and any other kind of ball. He's also whip smart. The kid seems to know every player on every team, college and pro, football, baseball and basketball. He's 13yo now, but even when he was 5 or 6, I could give him any NFL team, and he would tell me their record. A regular Rainman.
The whiz kid, who will someday be at Stanford or Northwestern on a half athletic/half academic scholarship, appeared on The Steve Mason Show on Friday with his Elite 8 picks. Listen to how much he knows about these teams. Here's a link.
Very, very lowkey, but very, very knowledgeable. As Andy Kamenitzky, who was co-hosting said, "If you put that kid's knowledge together with your sense of humor, you'd have a great talk show host."
I'm sure someday I'll be begging Hunter for a job.
I'm calling a foul on Jillian Barberie from the Good Day LA and Nutrisystem.
She had a baby recently. To the right, you can see what she looked like pregnant. Now she's doing Nutrisystem commercials, saying that their diet food helped her lose 40 pounds.
Did they start with her weight when she was pregnant? Or was it her weight right after she had the baby. I'm sure Nutrisystem is great, and it probably did wonders for Dan Marino and Don Shula and Sean Salisbury, but c'mon. Jillian had a rockin' body before the baby and she's back at "fighting weight." Somehow, I don't think Nutrisystem had much to do with it.
In a related note, my dogs, Hollis and Sophie, are definitely eating Purina One. To the best of my knowledge, I've never endorsed a product that I didn't actually use. I have never said things that weren't true just to cash the endorsement check.
Everybody's gearing up for the Final Four in San Antonio. For some reason, I've got a bad feeling about UCLA.
Fred Roggin and I caught up with UCLA assistant Scott Garson before the team jetted off to Texas, and we talked about some of the ins and outs of playing John Calipari's Memphia Tigers. Of the 4 teams, Kansas has the longest odds against winning the championship, according to Vegas, and UCLA is #3. North Carolina is the favorite with Memphis 2nd.
The Bruins cannot, under any condition, fall behind by too many points. The come-from-behind-rally may have worked against Texas A&M, but get down to Memphis, and Derrick Rose will bury them. Nick Collison is great t the point for UCLA, but uber freshman Rose is better.
I'm rooting for the Bruins, and I did pick them at the start of the tournament to play in the title game against Carolina, but even if they survive Memphis, I don't believe they can play with the Heels, although I'd love to be wrong.
Regardless, Coach Ben Howland is state-of-the-art in the college game. I think he's got less talent than the other teams in the penultimate quartet, but his system gets it done. The whole for the Bruins is more than the sum of its parts. Three straight Final Fours, whether UCLA cuts down the nets Monday night or not, is a staggering achievement.
A 28yo guy called the show today and said that UCLA has made 4 Final Fours in his lifetime. 3 of them have been 2006, 2007 and 2008. It took Roy Williams 5 Final Four flameouts until he final won it all. Howland will get his. Even if it's not this year.
Rick Reilly, who has won the National Sportswriter of the Year Award more times than I can count, wrote a screenplay about the early days of football 17 years ago. Somehow, George Clooney got hold of it a few years ago, and now LEATHERHEADS is a big time movie coming out on Friday.
I had a great conversation with Rick yesterday - a full hour - and you can hear it commercial-free at this link. One of the subjects we cover is the apparent demise of the newspaper business. This week, it was announced that the newspaper business's ad revenue was down 30% in 2007. That's a staggering drop. Rick says that he has heard that it's possible that there won't be a Los Angeles Times as we know it within a few years.
It is inevitable, in my opinion, that newspapers as we know them will be disappearing in the near future. Technology will mean that there is no paper, no trucks dropping off stacks of papers, no newstands. I think we will evenually have something along the lines of a piece of plastic or silicone, essentially a very thin computer with a touchscreen, and we'll be able to scroll through any newspaper, any magazine, any book we want.
The newspaper business should try to be ahead of this curve. The initiative should be to get content online. That's the only way the business will survive.
The Bruins are back in the Final Four thanks to Coach Ben Howland, Darren Collison and that guy above, Kevin Love. In the great tradition of MR. DORRELL, THE HATRIOTS SONG, ELI MANNING: TAKE YOU THERE and KOBE'S SUPERSTAR MIX, Mario Ruiz has turned Nelly and Fergie's PARTY PEOPLE into a Pro-Bruins song for the NCAA Tournament.
Not sure who discovered this image. Could've been Huffington Post. Maybe it was With Leather. But there is now no question that Annie Leibowitz was modeling her cover photo of Lebron James and Giselle Bundchen after King Kong.
Above is a WW1 recruiting poster. Replace the club with a basketball, and it's essentially the same pose. I didn't get the controversy until I saw this. Now I get it. Still not sure if it's racist. Is Annie Leibowitz racist or is she merely echoing a famous image? Or is she just a provocateur?
One thing's for sure. She's bringing a helluva lot of attention to Vogue.
Booing the President is bad form. I disagree with much of what President George W. Bush has done. Don't like the policies. Don't like this war. I'm a true wild-eyed liberal, and I make no apologies about that. Here's the reaction that the President received at the brand new ballpark in Washington DC on Sunday.
I've never booed in my entire life. I cheer at a ballpark, but I'm just not a fan of booing. I don't get it, and I especially don't understand booing the office of the President of the US. He's more than just George W. Bush. He's the President of all of us, like him or not.
Meanwhile, my candidate for 2008, Senator Barack Obama, went bowling on Monday in the town I was born, Altoona, Pennsylvania. He was awful. Embarrassing. Pathetic. He bowled a 37. Are you kiddin' me? If he sucks at bowling, why invite CNN, FNC, MSNBC and all those cameras to the Logan Valley Lanes in Altoona, Pennsylvania?
In my mind, he failed the "regular guy" test.
SATURDAY NIGHT: The card-counting thriller 21 (Sony) enjoyed a solid 19% increase Friday-to-Saturday for an excellent $10.17M Saturday. Based on the book Bringing Down the House
by Ben Mezrich and produced by Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, the hip
gambling saga will likely grab another $6.3M on Sunday, which will be
enough to push it to $25M for the weekend. (Scroll down to my Friday
Night update.)
Horton Hears a Who (Fox) added another $8.03M Saturday, and it's headed for an $18.1M 3rd weekend. The CGI animated family film will likely have $118M or so in the bank by Monday morning after a 2nd place weekend finish.
MGM/Weinstein's Superhero Movie was up 21% from its opening day, picking up $4.11M. The "spoof" flick will finish with a disappointing $9.69M opening, finishing just ahead of Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (Lionsgate). The latest from Perry generated an estimated $3.98M on Saturday, and it's on target for a lackluster $8.69M 2nd weekend. That's a larger-than-expected weekend drop of 57%. The Owen Wilson bomb Drillbit Taylor (Paramount) rounds out the weekend Top 5. The poorly-reviewed comedy sold $2.69M in tickets on Saturday, and Drillbit will finish the weekend with $6.34M.
Among other new wide releases, Stop Loss (Dreamworks/Paramount) has fared best. The Kimberly Peirce-directed Iraq War drama added $1.95M Saturday, and that should translate to $4.84M for the 3-day. Meanwhile, Run Fatboy Run (Picturehouse) is a disaster, selling just over $1M in tickets on its 2nd day. The David Schwimmer-directed Simon Pegg vehicle will manage only $2.46M this weekend, despite debuting on 1,133 screens.
Chapter 27 (Peace Arch), a new narrative film about the life of John Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman, continues to excel in its sole theatrical engagement at The Nuart in Los Angeles. Starring Jared Leto as Chapman, the well-reviewed film added another $6,000 on Saturday, and it will likely finish the weekend with over $16,000, more than enough to win the weekend PTA crown.
The 2nd-best 3-day PTA will be posted by the low budget gay-themed A Four Letter Word (Ebrem Entertainment). On 1 screen at the Clearview Chelsea Cinemas, the comedy will finish the weekend with just over $11,000. 21 will be #3 in the weekend PTA race, followed by Thinkfilm's Italian drama My Brother is an Only Child and the Academy Award winner The Counterfeiters (Sony Classics).
EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS REVISED 3-DAY PTA ESTIMATES
1. Chapter 27 (Peace Arch) – 1 location - $16,079 PTA
2. A Four Letter Word (Ebrem Entertainment) – 1 location - $11,031 PTA
3. 21 (Sony) – 2,648 locations - $9,453 PTA
4. My Brother is an Only Child (Thinkfilm) – 1 location - $9,419 PTA
5. The Counterfeiters (Sony Classics) – 44 locations - $8,636 PTA
6. Priceless (IDP Films) – 24 locations - $7,250 PTA
7. Race (UTV Communications) – 34 locations - $7,059 PTA
8. Flawless (Magnolia) – 35 locations - $6,857 PTA
9. Under the Same Moon (Weinstein) - 390 locations - $5,856 PTA
10. Hats Off (Canobie Films) – 1 location - $5,724 PTA
EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS EARLY SATURDAY ESTIMATES
1. NEW – 21 (Sony) - $10.17M - $3,842 PTA - $18.72M cume
2. Horton Hears a Who (Fox) - $8.03M - $2,099 PTA - $113.1M cume
3. NEW – Superhero Movie (MGM/Weinstein) - $4.11M - $1,390 PTA - $7.51M cume
4. Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns (Lionsgate) - $3.98M - $1,978 PTA - $31.2M cume
5. Drillbit Taylor (Paramount) - $2.69M - $880 PTA - $19.3M cume
6. Shutter (Fox) - $2.41M - $877 PTA - $18.1M cume
7. NEW – Stop Loss (Paramount/Dreamworks) - $1.95M - $1,518 PTA - $3.63M cume
8. 10,000 B.C. (Warner Bros) - $1.8M - $591 PTA - $82.9M cume
9. College Road Trip (Disney) - $1.47M- $649 PTA - $37.3M cume
10. The Bank Job (Lionsgate) -$1.33M - $831 PTA - $23.4M cume
11. Vantage Point (Sony) - $1.18M - $680 PTA - $68.8M cume
12. Never Back Down (Summit) - $1.14M - $615 PTA - $20.8M
13. NEW – Run Fatboy Run (Picturehouse) - $1.02M - $901 PTA - $1.8M cume
14. Under the Same Moon (Weinstein) - $940,000 - $2,410 PTA - $5.9M
15. The Other Boleyn Girl (Sony) - $625,000 - $559 PTA - $24.6M cume
*Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Focus) - $555,000 - $1,076 PTA - $9.1M cume
*The Counterfeiters (Sony Classics) - $175,000 - $3,977 PTA - $2.2M cume
*In Bruges (Focus) - $170,000 - $810 PTA - $6.3M cume
*Married Life (Sony Classics) - $135,000 - $2,368 PTA - $602,000
*NEW – Flawless (Magnolia) - $105,000 - $3,000 PTA - $159,000 cume
*The Band's Visit (Sony Classics) - $100,000 - $2,273 PTA - $1.9M cume
*Race (UTV Communications) - $100,000 - $2,941 PTA - $839,000 cume
*NEW – Priceless (IDP Films) - $78,000 - $3,250 PTA - $117,000 cume
*The Hammer (International Film Circuit) - $50,000 - $1,471 PTA - $209,000 cume
*NEW – One Two Three (Eros Entertainment) - $25,000 - $1,563 PTA - $38,000 cume
*Paranoid Park (IFC Films) - $21,000 - $568 PTA - $314,000 cume
*Snow Angels (Warner Independent) - $21,000 - $724 PTA - $163,000 cume
*Planet B-Boy (Elephant Eye Films) - $14,000 - $1,750 PTA - $71,000 cume
*Shelter (Regent) - $10,000 - $1,429 PTA - $23,000 cume
*NEW – Chapter 27 (Peace Arch)- $5,999 - $5,999 PTA - $11,880 cume
*NEW – A Four Letter Word (Ebrem Entertainment) - $4,453 - $4,453 PTA - $8,359 cume
*NEW – My Brother is an Only Child (Thinkfilm) - $4,345 - $4,345 PTA - $6,464 cume
*Boarding Gate (Magnolia) - $4,200 - $2,100 PTA - $25,000 cume
*The Grand (Anchor Bay) - $3,000 - $1,500 PTA - $28,000 cume
*NEW – Hats Off (Canobie Films) - $2,100 - $2,100 PTA - $4,254 cume
*Irina Palm (Strand) - $1,700 - $850 PTA - $8,500 cume
*NEW – Happy Valley (Independent) - $1,591 - $1,591 PTA - $2,864 cume
*NEW – American Zombie (Cinema Libre) - $1,239 - $1,239 PTA - $2,376 cume
*NEW – Just Add Water (Independent) - $359 - $395 PTA - $653 cume
EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS REVISED 3-DAY ESTIMATES
1. NEW – 21 (Sony) - $25.03M - $9,453 PTA - $25.03M cume
2. Horton Hears a Who (Fox) - $18.1M - $4,731 PTA - $117.9M cume
3. NEW – Superhero Movie (MGM/Weinstein) - $9.69M - $3,275 PTA - $9.69M cume
4. Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns (Lionsgate) - $8.69M - $4,315 PTA - $33.7M cume
5. Drillbit Taylor (Paramount) - $6.34M - $2,073 PTA - $21.1M cume
6. Shutter (Fox) - $5.81M - $2,111 PTA - $19.5M cume
7. NEW – Stop Loss (Paramount/Dreamworks) - $4.84M - $3,757 PTA - $4.84M cume
8. 10,000 B.C. (Warner Bros) - $4.13M - $1,352 PTA - $84.1M cume
9. College Road Trip (Disney) - $3.45M - $1,522 PTA - $38.3M cume
10. The Bank Job (Lionsgate) -$3.02M - $1,886 PTA - $24.3M cume
11. Never Back Down (Summit) - $2.69M- $1,444 PTA - $21.5M
12. Vantage Point (Sony) - $2.65M - $1,525 PTA - $69.5M cume
13. NEW – Run Fatboy Run (Picturehouse) - $2.46M - $2,179 PTA - $2.46M cume
14. Under the Same Moon (Weinstein) - $2.28M - $5,856 PTA - $6.7M
15. The Other Boleyn Girl (Sony) - $1.43M - $1,278 PTA - $25M cume
*Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Focus) - $1.25M - $2,424 PTA - $9.4M cume
*The Counterfeiters (Sony Classics) - $380,000 - $8,636 PTA - $2.3M cume
*In Bruges (Focus) - $375,000 - $1,786 PTA - $6.4M cume
*Married Life (Sony Classics) - $296,000 - $5,193 PTA - $691,000
*NEW – Flawless (Magnolia) - $240,000 - $6,857 PTA - $240,000 cume
*Race (UTV Communications) - $240,000 - $7,059 PTA - $917,000 cume
*The Band's Visit (Sony Classics) - $210,000 - $4,773 PTA - $1.9M cume
*NEW – Priceless (IDP Films) - $174,000 - $7,250 PTA - $174,000 cume
*The Hammer (International Film Circuit) - $111,000 - $3,265 PTA - $237,000 cume
*NEW – One Two Three (Eros Entertainment) - $55,000 - $3,438 PTA - $55,000 cume
*Paranoid Park (IFC Films) - $51,000 - $1,378 PTA - $330,000 cume
*Snow Angels (Warner Independent) - $50,000 - $1,724 PTA - $180,000 cume
*Planet B-Boy (Elephant Eye Films) - $39,000 - $4,875 PTA - $80,000 cume
*Shelter (Regent) - $23,000 - $3,286 PTA - $30,000 cume
*NEW – Chapter 27 (Peace Arch)- $16,079 - $16,079 PTA - $16,079 cume
*NEW – A Four Letter Word (Ebrem Entertainment) - $11,031 - $11,031 PTA - $11,031 cume
*NEW – My Brother is an Only Child (Thinkfilm) - $9,419 - $9,419 PTA - $9,419 cume
*Boarding Gate (Magnolia) - $9,300 - $4,650 PTA - $28,000 cume
*The Grand (Anchor Bay) - $8,000 - $4,000 PTA - $30,000 cume
*NEW – Hats Off (Canobie Films) - $5,724 - $5,724 PTA - $5,724 cume
*NEW – Happy Valley (Independent) - $3,755 - $3,755 PTA - $3,755 cume
*Irina Palm (Strand) - $3,500 - $1,750 PTA - $9,500 cume
*NEW – American Zombie (Cinema Libre) - $3,070 - $3,070 PTA - $3,070 cume
*NEW – Just Add Water (Independent) - $850 - $850 PTA - $850 cume
FRIDAY NIGHT: The book Bringing Down the House has long been one of my favorites, so it’s not a huge surprise that Sony’s film adaptation is the film equivalent of a blackjack. Produced by and featuring Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey, 21 has delivered an $8.2M opening day, and Sony will finish the weekend with a stack of chips totaling an estimated $23.39M.
21 is based on Ben Mezrich’s account of the life of a former MIT student and card-counter named Kevin (real name Jeffrey Ma). I met Kevin, or Jeffrey, soon after the book became a bestseller, and the first time I interviewed him on my ESPN radio show, he didn't give his name because he still feared for his safety. After all, the guy was part of an operation that won millions of dollars from the casino industry. I talked with Ma on my radio show, The Steve Mason Show, back in February on radio row at Super Bowl XLII. This is fascinating stuff. If you’d like to hear the conversation, here’s a link.
The no. 2 spot for the day and for the weekend goes to Horton Hears a Who (Fox), which will score another nice weekend hold. Horton has cracked the $100M mark with a strong third Friday of $5M, and the CGI-animated Dr. Seuss adaptation will wrap the 3-day with an estimated $17.9M, pushing its new domestic cume to nearly $118M.
MGM/Weinstein’s Superhero Movie, which used a clever viral Tom Cruise spoof to spread the word, debuted to a so-so $3.3M. That’s less than half the opening day business of last year’s Epic Movie ($6.8M) and January’s Meet the Spartans ($6.8M), so it appears that this genre’s appeal is waning. Still, Superhero Movie should have $8.75M banked by Sunday night.
One of the major surprises of the weekend is the staggering drop for Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns (Lionsgate). After a solid $20.1M opening, the film was expected to hold well, as has been the case for other Perry films. Meet the Browns, however, grabbed only $2.3M on its second Friday, and it will likely finish the weekend with about $7.65M, which would be a 64% drop.
Drillbit Taylor (Paramount) will likely hold off Shutter (Fox) for the fifth spot this frame. Both films generated an estimated $1.9M on Friday, but the Owen Wilson comedy will likely finish the 3-day with about $5.8M, compared to $5.6M for the horror holdover.
There were two other new wide releases. The first is Stop Loss (Paramount/Dreamworks), written and directed by Oscar winner Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry). Expectations were low given its Iraq War theme, but the film has performed slightly better than expected with $1.65M on Friday at just 1,291 locations for a $1,278 Per Theatre Average. Buoyed by positive reviews, this low-budget drama should manage $4.65M or so for the weekend.
The news was less positive for Run Fatboy Run (Picturehouse), directed by David Schwimmer. Despite opening on 1,133 screens, the offbeat comedy, co-written and starring the always-funny Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead), limped to only $675,000 on opening day. That will translate to a disappointing $2M or so.
Some interesting new specialty titles show up on the top Per Theatre Average list. Leading the way is Chapter 27 (Peace Arch Releasing), which opened on one screen, the Nuart in Los Angeles. Jared Leto plays John Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman in this film written and directed by JP Schaefer. Chapter 27 had a huge opening day of $5,881, and conservatively, I think it will likely score a $15,000 weekend.
Gay-themed movie A Four Letter Word (Ebrem Entertainment) sold $3,906 in tickets at the Clearview Chelsea Cinema in Manhattan, and it will likely top $11,000 for the weekend. Also scoring well are the quirky doc Hats Off (Canobie Films), the Italian film My Brother is an Only Child (Thinkfilm), Priceless (IDP Films), starring Audrey Tautou, and the new Michael Caine/Demi Moore caper film Flawless (Magnolia). Here’s an early rough estimate for 3-Day PTA Top 10.
EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS EARLY 3-DAY PTA ESTIMATES
1. Chapter 27 (Peace Arch) – 1 location - $15,000 PTA
2. A Four Letter Word (Ebrem Entertainment) – 1 location - $11,300 PTA
3. 21 (Sony) – 2,648 locations - $8,835 PTA
4. The Counterfeiters (Sony Classics) – 44 locations - $8,182 PTA
5. Hats Off (Canobie Films) – 1 location - $7,862 PTA
6. Race (UTV Communications) – 34 locations - $7,588 PTA
7. My Brother is an Only Child (Thinkfilm) – 1 location - $7,099 PTA
8. Priceless (IDP Films) – 24 locations - $5,833 PTA
9. Flawless (Magnolia) – 35 locations - $5,429 PTA
10. Planet B-Boy (Elephant Eye Films) – 8 locations - $5,375 PTA
EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS EARLY FRIDAY ESTIMATES
1. NEW – 21 (Sony) - $8.2M - $3,100 PTA - $8.2M cume
2. Horton Hears a Who (Fox) - $5M - $1,307 PTA - $104.8M cume
3. NEW – Superhero Movie (MGM/Weinstein) - $3.3M - $1,115 PTA - $3.3M cume
4. Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns (Lionsgate) - $2.3M - $1,141 PTA - $27.3M cume
5. Drillbit Taylor (Paramount) - $1.9M - $621 PTA - $16.6M cume
5. Shutter (Fox) - $1.9M - $689 PTA - $15.6M cume
7. NEW – Stop Loss (Paramount/Dreamworks) - $1.65M - $1,278 PTA - $1.65M cume
8. 10,000 B.C. (Warner Bros) - $1.23M - $404 PTA - $81.2M cume
9. College Road Trip (Disney) - $995,000- $438 PTA - $35.8M cume
10. The Bank Job (Lionsgate) -$720,000 - $449 PTA - $22M cume
11. Never Back Down (Summit) - $710,000 - $380 PTA - $19.6M
12. NEW – Run Fatboy Run (Picturehouse) - $675,000 - $575 PTA - $675,000 cume
13. Vantage Point (Sony) - $660,000 - $380 PTA - $67.6M cume
14. NEW – Under the Same Moon (Weinstein) - $450,000 - $1,154 PTA - $4.8M
15. The Other Boleyn Girl (Sony) - $345,000 - $308 PTA - $24M cume
*Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Focus) - $290,000 - $562 PTA - $8.5M cume
*In Bruges (Focus) - $95,000 - $452 PTA - $6.2M cume
*The Counterfeiters (Sony Classics) - $85,000 - $1,932 PTA - $2M cume
*Married Life (Sony Classics) - $72,000 - $1,263 PTA - $467,000
*Race (UTV Communications) - $62,000 - $1,824 PTA - $739,000 cume
*NEW – Flawless (Magnolia) - $54,000 - $1,483 PTA - $54,000 cume
*The Band's Visit (Sony Classics) - $41,000 - $932 PTA - $1.8M cume
*NEW – Priceless (IDP Films) - $39,000 - $1,556 PTA - $39,000 cume
*The Hammer (International Film Circuit) - $33,000 - $971 PTA - $159,000 cume
*Planet B-Boy (Elephant Eye Films) - $16,000 - $2,000 PTA - $57,000 cume
*Paranoid Park (IFC Films) - $14,000 - $378 PTA - $293,000 cume
*NEW – One Two Three (Eros Entertainment) - $13,000 - $770 PTA - $13,000 cume
*Snow Angels (Warner Independent) - $12,000 - $414 PTA - $142,000 cume
*Shelter (Regent) - $6,500 - $929 PTA - $13,000 cume
*NEW – Chapter 27 (Peace Arch)- $5,881 - $5,881 PTA - $5,881 cume
*NEW – A Four Letter Word (Ebrem Entertainment) - $3,906 - $3,906 PTA - $3,906 cume
*The Grand (Anchor Bay) - $2,818 - $1,409 PTA - $25,000 cume
*Boarding Gate (Magnolia) - $2,580 - $1,290 PTA - $21,000 cume
*NEW – Hats Off (Canobie Films) - $2,154 - $2,154 PTA - $2,154 cume
*NEW – My Brother is an Only Child (Thinkfilm) - $2,119 - $2,119 PTA - $2,119 cume
*NEW – Happy Valley (Independent) - $1,273 - $1,273 PTA - $1,273 cume
*NEW – American Zombie (Cinema Libre) - $1,137 - $1,137 PTA - $1,137 cume
*Irina Palm (Strand) - $817 - $409 PTA - $7,000 cume
*NEW – Just Add Water (Independent) - $294 - $294 PTA - $294 cume
EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS EARLY 3-DAY ESTIMATES
1. NEW – 21 (Sony) - $23.39M - $8,835 PTA - $23.39M cume
2. Horton Hears a Who (Fox) - $17.9M - $4,679 PTA - $117.7M cume
3. NEW – Superhero Movie (MGM/Weinstein) - $8.75M - $2,956 PTA - $8.75M cume
4. Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns (Lionsgate) - $7.65M - $3,795 PTA - $32.7M cume
5. Drillbit Taylor (Paramount) - $5.8M - $1,895 PTA - $20.5M cume
6. Shutter (Fox) - $5.6M - $2,032 PTA - $19.3M cume
7. NEW – Stop Loss (Paramount/Dreamworks) - $4.65M - $3,602 PTA - $4.65M cume
8. 10,000 B.C. (Warner Bros) - $3.95M - $1,293 PTA - $83.9M cume
9. College Road Trip (Disney) - $3.58M - $1,578 PTA - $38.4M cume
10. The Bank Job (Lionsgate) -$2.44M - $1,525 PTA - $23.7M cume
11. Vantage Point (Sony) - $2.31M - $1,328 PTA - $69.2M cume
12. Never Back Down (Summit) - $2.09M- $1,121 PTA - $20.9M
13. NEW – Run Fatboy Run (Picturehouse) - $1.95M - $1,728 PTA - $1.95M cume
14. NEW – Under the Same Moon (Weinstein) - $1.77M - $4,561 PTA - $6.2M
15. The Other Boleyn Girl (Sony) - $1.17M - $1,048 PTA - $24.8M cume
*Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Focus) - $1.02M - $1,995 PTA - $9.2M cume
*The Counterfeiters (Sony Classics) - $360,000 - $8,182 PTA - $2.3M cume
*In Bruges (Focus) - $330,000 - $1,571 PTA - $6.4M cume
*Married Life (Sony Classics) - $260,000 - $4,561 PTA - $655,000
*Race (UTV Communications) - $258,000 - $7,588 PTA - $935,000 cume
*NEW – Flawless (Magnolia) - $190,000 - $5,429 PTA - $190,000 cume
*The Band's Visit (Sony Classics) - $185,000 - $4,205 PTA - $1.9M cume
*NEW – Priceless (IDP Films) - $140,000 - $5,833 PTA - $140,000 cume
*The Hammer (International Film Circuit) - $91,000 - $2,676 PTA - $217,000 cume
*Paranoid Park (IFC Films) - $47,000 - $1,270 PTA - $325,000 cume
*Planet B-Boy (Elephant Eye Films) - $43,000 - $5,375 PTA - $84,000 cume
*Snow Angels (Warner Independent) - $43,000 - $1,483 PTA - $173,000 cume
*NEW – One Two Three (Eros Entertainment) - $42,000 - $2,625 PTA - $42,000 cume
*NEW – Chapter 27 (Peace Arch)- $21,000 - $21,000 PTA - $21,000 cume
*Shelter (Regent) - $18,000 - $2,571 PTA - $25,000 cume
*NEW – A Four Letter Word (Ebrem Entertainment) - $13,000 - $13,000 PTA - $13,000 cume
*Boarding Gate (Magnolia) - $8,257- $4,128 PTA - $27,000 cume
*The Grand (Anchor Bay) - $8,171 - $4,086 PTA - $31,000 cume
*NEW – Hats Off (Canobie Films) - $7,862 - $7,862 PTA - $7,862 cume
*NEW – My Brother is an Only Child (Thinkfilm) - $7,099 - $7,099 PTA - $7,099 cume
*NEW – Happy Valley (Independent) - $3,819 - $3,819 PTA - $3,819 cume
*NEW – American Zombie (Cinema Libre) - $3,354 - $3,354 PTA - $3,354 cume
*Irina Palm (Strand) - $2,452 - $1,226 PTA - $8,450 cume
*NEW – Just Add Water (Independent) - $838 - $838 PTA - $838 cume
FRIDAY NIGHT: The book Bringing Down the House has long
been one of my favorites, so it’s not a huge surprise that Sony’s film
adaptation is the film equivalent of a blackjack. Produced by and
featuring Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey, 21 has delivered an $8.2M opening day, and Sony will finish the weekend with a stack of chips totaling an estimated $23.39M.
21 is based on Ben Mezrich’s account of the life of a former
MIT student and card-counter named Kevin (real name Jeffrey Ma). I met
Kevin or Jeffrey soon after the book became a bestseller, and the first
time I interviewed him on my ESPN radio show, he didn't give his name
because he still feared for his safety. After all, the guy was part of
an operation that won millions of dollars from the casino industry. I
talked with Ma on my radio show, The Steve Mason Show, back in February on radio row at Super Bowl 42. This is fascinating stuff. If you’d like to hear the conversation, here’s a link.
The #2 spot for the day and for the weekend goes to Horton Hears a Who (Fox), which will score another nice weekend hold. Horton has cracked the $100M mark with a strong 3rd Friday of $5M, and the CGI animated Dr. Seuss adaptation will wrap the 3-day with an estimated $17.9M, pushing its new domestic cume to nearly $118M.
MGM/Weinstein’s Superhero Movie, which used a clever viral Tom Cruise spoof to spread the word, debuted to a so-so $3.3M. That’s less than half the opening day business of last year’s Epic Movie ($6.8M) and January’s Meet the Spartans ($6.8M), so it appears that this genre’s appeal is waning. Still, Superhero Movie should have $8.75M banked by Sunday night.
One of the major surprises of the weekend is the staggering drop for Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns (Lionsgate). After a solid $20.1M opening, the film was expected to hold well, as has been the case for other Perry films. Meet the Browns, however, grabbed only $2.3M on its 2nd Friday, and it will likely finish the weekend with about $7.65M, which would be a 64% drop.
Drillbit Taylor (Paramount) will likely hold off Shutter (Fox) for the 5th spot this frame. Both films generated an estimated $1.9M on Friday, but the Owen Wilson comedy will likely finish the 3-day with about $5.8M, compared to $5.6 for the horror holdover.
There were 2 other new wide releases. The first is Stop Loss (Paramount/Dreamworks), written and directed by Oscar winner Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry). Expectations were low given its Iraq War theme, but the film has performed slightly better-than-expected with $1.65M on Friday at just 1,291 locations for a $1,278 Per Theatre Average. Buoyed by positive reviews, this low budget drama should manage $4.65M or so for the weekend.
The news was less positive for Run Fatboy Run (Picturehouse), directed by David Schwimmer. Despite opening on 1,133 screens, the offbeat comedy, co-written and starring the always-funny Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead), limped to only $675,000 on opening day. That will translate to a disappointing $2M or so.
Some interesting new specialty titles show up on the Top Per Theatre Average list. Leading the way is Chapter 27 (Peace Arch Releasing), which opened on 1 screen, the Nuart in Los Angeles. Jared Leto plays John Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman in this film written and directed by JP Schaefer. Chapter 27 had a huge opening day of $5,881, and conservatively, I think it will likely score a $15,000 weekend.
Gay-themed movie A Four Letter Word (Ebrem Entertainment) sold $3,906 in tickets at the Clearview Chelsea Cinema in Manhattan, and it will likely top $11,000 for the weekend. Also scoring well are the quirky doc Hats Off (Canobie Films), the Italian film My Brother is an Only Child (Thinkfilm), Priceless (IDP Films), starring Audrey Tatou, and the new Michael Caine/Demi Moore caper film Flawless (Magnolia). Here’s an early rough estimate for 3-Day PTA Top 10.
EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS EARLY 3-DAY PTA ESTIMATES
1. Chapter 27 (Peace Arch) – 1 location - $15,000 PTA
2. A Four Letter Word (Ebrem Entertainment) – 1 location - $11,300 PTA
3. 21 (Sony) – 2,648 locations - $8,835 PTA
4. The Counterfeiters (Sony Classics) – 44 locations - $8,182 PTA
5. Hats Off (Canobie Films) – 1 location - $7,862 PTA
6. Race (UTV Communications) – 34 locations - $7,588 PTA
7. My Brother is an Only Child (Thinkfilm) – 1 location - $7,099 PTA
8. Priceless (IDP Films) – 24 locations - $5,833 PTA
9. Flawless (Magnolia) – 35 locations - $5,429 PTA
10. Planet B-Boy (Elephant Eye Films) – 8 locations - $5,375 PTA
EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS EARLY FRIDAY ESTIMATES
1. NEW – 21 (Sony) - $8.2M - $3,100 PTA - $8.2M cume
2. Horton Hears a Who (Fox) - $5M - $1,307 PTA - $104.8M cume
3. NEW – Superhero Movie (MGM/Weinstein) - $3.3M - $1,115 PTA - $3.3M cume
4. Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns (Lionsgate) - $2.3M - $1,141 PTA - $27.3M cume
5. Drillbit Taylor (Paramount) - $1.9M - $621 PTA - $16.6M cume
5. Shutter (Fox) - $1.9M - $689 PTA - $15.6M cume
7. NEW – Stop Loss (Paramount/Dreamworks) - $1.65M - $1,278 PTA - $1.65M cume
8. 10,000 B.C. (Warner Bros) - $1.23M - $404 PTA - $81.2M cume
9. College Road Trip (Disney) - $995,000- $438 PTA - $35.8M cume
10. The Bank Job (Lionsgate) -$720,000 - $449 PTA - $22M cume
11. Never Back Down (Summit) - $710,000 - $380 PTA - $19.6M
12. NEW – Run Fatboy Run (Picturehouse) - $675,000 - $575 PTA - $675,000 cume
13. Vantage Point (Sony) - $660,000 - $380 PTA - $67.6M cume
14. NEW – Under the Same Moon (Weinstein) - $450,000 - $1,154 PTA - $4.8M
15. The Other Boleyn Girl (Sony) - $345,000 - $308 PTA - $24M cume
*Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Focus) - $290,000 - $562 PTA - $8.5M cume
*In Bruges (Focus) - $95,000 - $452 PTA - $6.2M cume
*The Counterfeiters (Sony Classics) - $85,000 - $1,932 PTA - $2M cume
*Married Life (Sony Classics) - $72,000 - $1,263 PTA - $467,000
*Race (UTV Communications) - $62,000 - $1,824 PTA - $739,000 cume
*NEW – Flawless (Magnolia) - $54,000 - $1,483 PTA - $54,000 cume
*The Band's Visit (Sony Classics) - $41,000 - $932 PTA - $1.8M cume
*NEW – Priceless (IDP Films) - $39,000 - $1,556 PTA - $39,000 cume
*The Hammer (International Film Circuit) - $33,000 - $971 PTA - $159,000 cume
*Planet B-Boy (Elephant Eye Films) - $16,000 - $2,000 PTA - $57,000 cume
*Paranoid Park (IFC Films) - $14,000 - $378 PTA - $293,000 cume
*NEW – One Two Three (Eros Entertainment) - $13,000 - $770 PTA - $13,000 cume
*Snow Angels (Warner Independent) - $12,000 - $414 PTA - $142,000 cume
*Shelter (Regent) - $6,500 - $929 PTA - $13,000 cume
*NEW – Chapter 27 (Peace Arch)- $5,881 - $5,881 PTA - $5,881 cume
*NEW – A Four Letter Word (Ebrem Entertainment) - $3,906 - $3,906 PTA - $3,906 cume
*The Grand (Anchor Bay) - $2,818 - $1,409 PTA - $25,000 cume
*Boarding Gate (Magnolia) - $2,580 - $1,290 PTA - $21,000 cume
*NEW – Hats Off (Canobie Films) - $2,154 - $2,154 PTA - $2,154 cume
*NEW – My Brother is an Only Child (Thinkfilm) - $2,119 - $2,119 PTA - $2,119 cume
*NEW – Happy Valley (Independent) - $1,273 - $1,273 PTA - $1,273 cume
*NEW – American Zombie (Cinema Libre) - $1,137 - $1,137 PTA - $1,137 cume
*Irina Palm (Strand) - $817 - $409 PTA - $7,000 cume
*NEW – Just Add Water (Independent) - $294 - $294 PTA - $294 cume
EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS EARLY 3-DAY ESTIMATES
1. NEW – 21 (Sony) - $23.39M - $8,835 PTA - $23.39M cume
2. Horton Hears a Who (Fox) - $17.9M - $4,679 PTA - $117.7M cume
3. NEW – Superhero Movie (MGM/Weinstein) - $8.75M - $2,956 PTA - $8.75M cume
4. Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns (Lionsgate) - $7.65M - $3,795 PTA - $32.7M cume
5. Drillbit Taylor (Paramount) - $5.8M - $1,895 PTA - $20.5M cume
6. Shutter (Fox) - $5.6M - $2,032 PTA - $19.3M cume
7. NEW – Stop Loss (Paramount/Dreamworks) - $4.65M - $3,602 PTA - $4.65M cume
8. 10,000 B.C. (Warner Bros) - $3.95M - $1,293 PTA - $83.9M cume
9. College Road Trip (Disney) - $3.58M - $1,578 PTA - $38.4M cume
10. The Bank Job (Lionsgate) -$2.44M - $1,525 PTA - $23.7M cume
11. Vantage Point (Sony) - $2.31M - $1,328 PTA - $69.2M cume
12. Never Back Down (Summit) - $2.09M- $1,121 PTA - $20.9M
13. NEW – Run Fatboy Run (Picturehouse) - $1.95M - $1,728 PTA - $1.95M cume
14. NEW – Under the Same Moon (Weinstein) - $1.77M - $4,561 PTA - $6.2M
15. The Other Boleyn Girl (Sony) - $1.17M - $1,048 PTA - $24.8M cume
*Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Focus) - $1.02M - $1,995 PTA - $9.2M cume
*The Counterfeiters (Sony Classics) - $360,000 - $8,182 PTA - $2.3M cume
*In Bruges (Focus) - $330,000 - $1,571 PTA - $6.4M cume
*Married Life (Sony Classics) - $260,000 - $4,561 PTA - $655,000
*Race (UTV Communications) - $258,000 - $7,588 PTA - $935,000 cume
*NEW – Flawless (Magnolia) - $190,000 - $5,429 PTA - $190,000 cume
*The Band's Visit (Sony Classics) - $185,000 - $4,205 PTA - $1.9M cume
*NEW – Priceless (IDP Films) - $140,000 - $5,833 PTA - $140,000 cume
*The Hammer (International Film Circuit) - $91,000 - $2,676 PTA - $217,000 cume
*Paranoid Park (IFC Films) - $47,000 - $1,270 PTA - $325,000 cume
*Planet B-Boy (Elephant Eye Films) - $43,000 - $5,375 PTA - $84,000 cume
*Snow Angels (Warner Independent) - $43,000 - $1,483 PTA - $173,000 cume
*NEW – One Two Three (Eros Entertainment) - $42,000 - $2,625 PTA - $42,000 cume
*NEW – Chapter 27 (Peace Arch)- $21,000 - $21,000 PTA - $21,000 cume
*Shelter (Regent) - $18,000 - $2,571 PTA - $25,000 cume
*NEW – A Four Letter Word (Ebrem Entertainment) - $13,000 - $13,000 PTA - $13,000 cume
*Boarding Gate (Magnolia) - $8,257- $4,128 PTA - $27,000 cume
*The Grand (Anchor Bay) - $8,171 - $4,086 PTA - $31,000 cume
*NEW – Hats Off (Canobie Films) - $7,862 - $7,862 PTA - $7,862 cume
*NEW – My Brother is an Only Child (Thinkfilm) - $7,099 - $7,099 PTA - $7,099 cume
*NEW – Happy Valley (Independent) - $3,819 - $3,819 PTA - $3,819 cume
*NEW – American Zombie (Cinema Libre) - $3,354 - $3,354 PTA - $3,354 cume
*Irina Palm (Strand) - $2,452 - $1,226 PTA - $8,450 cume
*NEW – Just Add Water (Independent) - $838 - $838 PTA - $838 cume