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Box Office Update 5/18-5/20: Shrek the Third Leads the Way

Written by Chris Beaumont
Published May 22, 2007
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Disturbia continues to show strong legs with its small week to week drops. The strength that this one has shown is impressive, to say the least. It may not hit $100 million, but it has definitely hit on something that the audience likes. Similarly, Fracture has stabilized and seems to be doing decently, though probably not as well as had been hoped. Then there is the impressive, to me, showing of Hot Fuzz, the wild action film comedy/parody that comes out firing on all cylinders. It as another film with a narrow appeal that is doing more than I had expected.

All of this will change next week when we get the near 3 hours of pirates filling the cinemas, attempting to break the records again. I daresay, that more may be looking forward to this than were for Spider-Man 3.

Two films dropped from the list this week: Next (11), and Meet the Robinsons (15).

This WeekLast WeekTitleWknd GrossOverallWeek in release
1NShrek the Third$121,629,270$122,536,6091
21

Spider-Man 3

$29,022,026$282,379,6553
3228 Weeks Later$5,454,168$18,914,9242
43Georgia Rule$3,745,880$12,867,4556
54Disturbia$3,731,349$71,379,6952
66

Fracture

$2,278,362$34,530,8405
75Delta Farce$1,852,193$6,138,1052
87The Invisible$1,300,769$17,654,5574
910Hot Fuzz$1,291,898$21,125,5125
1011Blades of Glory$1,091,982$115,446,5832

Box Office Predictions Recap
Aside from my overestimations at the bottom of the list, I think I did pretty good, or was at least in the ballpark for most of my choices. I did end up a bit low on the Shrek guesstimation, but whatever way you want to slice it, we all knew that it was going to be a monster opening. I was pretty close with Spidey as well, similar to my guess for it last week. Aside from the top two, the rest of the top ten was a feeding frenzy as they all went for the leftover scraps. Next week could be even more of a spread as the third Pirates film enters the fray for Memorial Day weekend.

Anyway, here is how I picked the field:

ActualPredictionTitleWknd GrossPrediction
11Shrek the Third$121,629,270$100 million
22Spider-Man 3$29,022,026$30 million
3328 Weeks Later$5,454,168$7 million
44Georgia Rule$3,745,880$4 million
55

Disturbia

$3,731,349$3 million
76Delta Farce$1,852,193$2.5 million
67Fracture$2,278,362$2 million
88The Invisible$1,300,769$2 million
159Meet the Robinsons$503,975$1.5 million
1110Next$1,084,974$1 million

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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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Box Office Update 5/18-5/20: Shrek the Third Leads the Way
Published: May 22, 2007
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