New Movies and Box Office Predictions: Dead Silence, I Think I Love My Wife, Premonition
Published March 16, 2007
Iraq in Fragments. (2006, 94 minutes, unrated, documentary, trailer) This film was nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar at the most recent telecast. The film sounds fascinating. Director James Longley spent two years in Iraq filming for this documentary that shows Iraq through the eyes of Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds. It shows the different ways that people are dealing with the situation. It is not scripted, nor does it have any narration. This is beginning a run at the local indie theater near me. On Sunday, the theater will have a special guest, a local Marine Sgt. who served at Ground Zero and did two tours in Iraq.
The Situation. (2006, 106 minutes, unrated, thriller, trailer) This is the first fictional feature from the US to deal with the war in Iraq. The events are set off when a group of American soldiers throw an Iraqi boy off a dock. From that incident it movies to a journalist who becomes entangled in a love triangle while reporting on the murder of an Iraqi leader. She is pulling away from an American intelligence officer and towards an Iraqi photographer. This looks like it could be interesting.
Also opening this week, but not near me:
- Adam's Apples
- Beauty and the Beast: A Latter Day Tale
- Hat Trick
- Nomad (The Warrior)
- The Wind that Shakes the Barley
- Full of It
- Wild Tigers I Have Known
Box Office Predictions
300 ran roughshod over the top films last week, and I see no reason why it won't take the top slot again. Even if it has a 50% fall off, that still puts it at $35 million, I am going to wager that it won't drop that far, but it may be close. It does seem to be pulling decent return business, which will soon include yours truly. Sandra Bullock is a decent draw, and after last year's excellent The Lake House, I am interested in this next outing, I have a feeling it will do well. The other two new films are a bit more questionable, I am interested in seeing both, but I am wondering how wide a draw they will turn out to be.
Here is how I think the top ten field will play out:
| Rank | Title | Box Office |
| 1 | 300 | $39 million |
| 2 | Premonition | $24 million |
| 3 | Wild Hogs | $17 million |
| 4 | Dead Silence | $13 million |
| 5 |
I Think I Love My Wife | $12 million |
| 6 | Bridge to Terabithia |
$5 million |
| 7 | Ghost Rider | $4.5 million |
| 8 | Norbit | $3 million |
| 9 | Zodiac | $2.5 million |
| 10 | The Number 23 | $2 million |
What are you seeing this weekend?
Christopher Beaumont spends much of his time writing about entertainment when he isn't sitting in a movie theater. He is known around the office as the "Movie Guy" and is always ready to talk about his favorite form of entertainment and offer up recommendations. Interests include science fiction, horror, and metal music. His writings can be found at Draven99's Musings and Draven99's Media Center. 
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If at any point you thought that 300 was supposed to be factual, you have some bigger problems. It is based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller which was loosely inspired by the Battle of Thermopylae.
It is not racist and was never meant to be a factual historical telling.
Have you even seen the movie?