Box Office Update 3/6-3/8: Everyone Watches the Watchmen - Page 2

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Moving on towards the bottom of the list, Confessions of a Shopaholic comes in eighth. This is an enjoyable light weight movie that actually connected with me in unexpected ways. It also functions as a fun showcase for Isla Fisher's comedic skills.

Ninth place is home for the Jonas Brothers concert film, a movie that can safely be called a flop, I think. It opened with a mere fraction of what it expected to, and has gone on to drop 77% in week two.

Rounding out the top ten is male-targeted cheerleader movie Fired Up!. It is clinging on for dear life to the chart, it senses that its time is nearly up.

Next week will see a trio of new films arrive nationwide. Disney's Race to Witch Mountain with Dwayne Johnson and AnnaSophia Robb in the lead roles, the remake of Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left, and the sex comedy Miss March (which was originally titled Miss February and slated for a February release), will vie for your cinematic dollar. Will you part with it?

One movie dropped off the top ten this week: Street Fighter - The Legend of Chun-Li (13).

This WeekLast WeekTitleWknd GrossOverallWeek in release
1NWatchmen$55,214,334$55,214,3341
21Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail$8,532,412$76,237,7393
34Taken (2009)$7,334,814$117,933,9226
43Slumdog Millionaire$6,808,383$125,324,81317
56Paul Blart: Mall Cop$4,146,316$133,588,9958
65He's Just Not That Into You$4,017,326$84,644,5835
77Coraline$3,255,852$65,627,7775
89Confessions of a Shopaholic$3,100,298$38,335,1144
92Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience$2,832,454$16,838,7752
1010Fired Up$2,478,381$13,238,4323

Box Office Predictions Recap
Good news! My predictions are still in the gutter, while the box office keeps going strong, rest assured that my predictions will be way off. If I didn't enjoy taking a guess, I might actually feel bad about how poor my thoughts line up with the public. On the positive side, I did get the gimme position of number one right, plus a couple unlikely candidates further down the list. Rest assured, I will return with new predictions come this weekend.

Here is how the field matched up:

ActualPredictionTitleWknd GrossPrediction
11Watchmen$55,214,334$68 million
42Slumdog Millionaire$6,808,383$12 million

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3Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail$8,532,412$10 million
34Taken (2009)$7,334,814$9 million
95Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience$2,832,454

$6.5 million

66He's Just Not That Into You$4,017,326$6 million
77Coraline$3,255,852$4.75 million
58Paul Blart: Mall Cop$4,146,316$4.5 million
89Confessions of a Shopaholic$3,100,298$3 million
1310Steet Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li$1,485,028$2.5 million

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