No surprise here -- a new ALL-TIME record on opening day -- besting EPISODE III.

Friday Projections

1. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 2 $55.5 million
2. SUPERMAN RETURNS $7.1 million
3. DEVIL WEARS PRADA $4.9 million
4. CLICK $4.0 million
5. CARS $2.9 million

And it deserves it. AWESOME movie, easily owns the summer hands down.

Eric,
I'm with you. I thought it WAS terrific, though there are plenty of bad reviews out there.....anyway it beat the stuffing out of Superman as far as I was concerned!

Did you not love the ending? Talk about sweetness...

WEEKEND ESTIMATES

PIRATES' opening is the biggest opening 3-day weekend EVER (beating Spider-Man's $115 million) as well as the biggest opening day, single gross, ever (beating Episode III's $50 mil). I'd say pretty damn impressive!

Big drop for Superman (as expected) of nearly 60%, though that's pretty much a given by this point with these films.


1 N Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest BV $132,028,000 - 4,133 - $31,944
2 1 Superman Returns WB $21,850,000 -58.4% 4,065 - $5,375 $141,677,000
3 2 The Devil Wears Prada Fox $15,600,000 -43.3% 2,882 +35 $5,412 $63,696,000
4 3 Click SonR $12,000,000 -39.8% 3,458 -306 $3,470 $105,921,000
5 4 Cars BV $10,330,000 -29.1% 3,379 -327 $3,057 $205,504,000
6 5 Nacho Libre Par. $3,339,000 -49.4% 2,262 -820 $1,476 $73,813,000
7 6 The Lake House WB $2,845,000 -40.9% 2,420 -225 $1,175 $45,621,000
8 7 The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Uni. $2,484,000 -44.6% 1,868 -802 $1,329 $57,369,000
9 8 Waist Deep Rog. $1,861,000 -45.8% 864 -142 $2,153 $19,167,000
10 9 The Break-Up Uni. $1,646,000 -45.0% 1,180 -731 $1,394 $114,304,000

AndyDursin wrote:Eric,
I'm with you. I thought it WAS terrific, though there are plenty of bad reviews out there.....anyway it beat the stuffing out of Superman as far as I was concerned!

Did you not love the ending? Talk about sweetness...

I whooped out loud in the theater at that ending as did everyone else.

Seriously, this is the most fun I've had at the movies in a LONG time.

AWESOME!

It took around $4.5m here on its opening day despite the World Cup (of course, if England were still in it, that might have been different), setting a record over here. I tried seeing it but every weekend show was sold out at my local despite being on five screens. Well, not every show - but I refuse to see it in one of their screens the size of a broom cupboard. For £7.50 I expect something at least the size of a kitchenette...

Meanwhile, just about every other summer blockbuster has gone: no sign of MI3, Da Vinci or X-Men at any of my locals anymore.

Carlson2005 wrote:.

Meanwhile, just about every other summer blockbuster has gone: no sign of MI3, Da Vinci or X-Men at any of my locals anymore.

No surprises there whatsoever. Those are on the fast track to DVD releases to try and start making up money fast!

Well, now I know why I couldn't get in this weekend - it took $25m in the UK this weekend, setting a new UK record it'll be hard to beat even up against the World Cup final.

Carlson2005 wrote:Well, now I know why I couldn't get in this weekend - it took $25m in the UK this weekend, setting a new UK record it'll be hard to beat even up against the World Cup final.

Trevor, that might have something to do with it!

I think we were lucky...made it at 6:15 for a 6:45 show Friday night that was ALMOST sold out. However, the girl said most of the tickets were purchased online or earlier in the day, and none of those people (or at least very few of them) were actually IN the theater. That's the beauty of buying online -- you've got your seat, but if you don't get there quick enough, it might be front row all the way over to the right!

So we ended up with excellent seats, then walked out to find every show (of 5) had been sold out from 7-9 and most of the post-9 shows were sold out too.

And yet according to Wall Street it's still not impressive! It's one of those vagaries of the business that hits can often drive the share price down - when Time Warner had Harry Potter, Ocean's 11 and LOTR one Christmas and posted their highest ever earnings for the movie division, the share price actually dropped several points. This is why I don't play the stock market...


Ho Hum, Ho Hum. 'Pirates' Not for Wall St.

Wall Street reacted unenthusiastically Monday to reports that Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest had earned $135.6 million, $3.6 million more than earlier estimates, setting a slew of box-office records in the process. Disney stock barely moved, closing 9 cents higher at $29.92. (It rose at additional 7 cents by mid-day trading today). Analysts indicated that the market had already anticipated the successful debut of the movie and that the expectations had been reflected in the stock price. Bernstein Research analyst Michael Nathanson noted that Disney's overall revenue might fall short of his original estimate of $34.7 billion because the strong showing for Pirates would likely be offset by the weaker-than-expected showing for Cars.