Box Office Update 5/18-5/20: Shrek the Third Leads the Way
Published May 22, 2007
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 Week | Last Week | Title | Wknd Gross | Overall | Week in release |
| 1 | N | Shrek the Third | $121,629,270 | $122,536,609 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 |
Spider-Man 3 | $29,022,026 | $282,379,655 | 3 |
| 3 | 2 | 28 Weeks Later | $5,454,168 | $18,914,924 | 2 |
| 4 | 3 | Georgia Rule | $3,745,880 | $12,867,455 | 6 |
| 5 | 4 | Disturbia | $3,731,349 | $71,379,695 | 2 |
| 6 | 6 |
Fracture | $2,278,362 | $34,530,840 | 5 |
| 7 | 5 | Delta Farce | $1,852,193 | $6,138,105 | 2 |
| 8 | 7 | The Invisible | $1,300,769 | $17,654,557 | 4 |
| 9 | 10 | Hot Fuzz | $1,291,898 | $21,125,512 | 5 |
| 10 | 11 | Blades of Glory | $1,091,982 | $115,446,583 | 2 |
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:
| Actual | Prediction | Title | Wknd Gross | Prediction |
| 1 | 1 | Shrek the Third | $121,629,270 | $100 million |
| 2 | 2 | Spider-Man 3 | $29,022,026 | $30 million |
| 3 | 3 | 28 Weeks Later | $5,454,168 | $7 million |
| 4 | 4 | Georgia Rule | $3,745,880 | $4 million |
| 5 | 5 |
Disturbia | $3,731,349 | $3 million |
| 7 | 6 | Delta Farce | $1,852,193 | $2.5 million |
| 6 | 7 | Fracture | $2,278,362 | $2 million |
| 8 | 8 | The Invisible | $1,300,769 | $2 million |
| 15 | 9 | Meet the Robinsons | $503,975 | $1.5 million |
| 11 | 10 | Next | $1,084,974 | $1 million |
- Box Office Update 5/18-5/20: Shrek the Third Leads the Way
- Published: May 22, 2007
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