4/30: Predictions? WIN!

[SFjohnny]

anyone have predictions for this weekend's box office? Whomever comes teh closest (by combined percentage) will win a can of Va-POO-rizer pet deodorizer spray from the new movie ENVY!!

Here are my guesses:

1 ENVY $14.6
2 MEAN GIRLS $13.3
3 MAN ON FIRE $13.1
4 13 GOING ON 30 $12.6
5 GODSEND $11.8
6 LAWS OF ATTRACTION $10.2
7 KILL BILL VOL. 2 $6.4
8 BOBBY JONES: STROKE OF GENIUS $4.1
9 THE PUNISHER $3.4
10 HOME ON THE RANGE $2.6

[Hakeem]

Im in :D

1) Mean Girls $15
2) 13 Going On 30 $13
3) Man on Fire $12
4) Envy $9 (doesnt look great. plus all the delays)
5) Laws of Attraction $8.0 (this just looks embarrassing)
6) Godsend $6.0 (I love this movie from what I see and read. but not enough DeNiro exposure to get bigger numbers)
7) Kill Bill Volume 2 $5.5
8) Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius $4
9) The Punisher $3.5
10) Home on the Range $2

[SFjohnny]

Boxoffice preview: Last chance for the little guy
(HR)

Last call before the summer tentpoles! Last call!

With Universal Pictures' "Van Helsing" lurking in the wings -- the action-adventure-horror pic is set to kick off the summer moviegoing stampede May 7 -- this weekend represents the last opportunity for films that are likely to fall short of blockbuster status to establish a foothold in the market.

And with four new wide releases entering the fray, even that is going to be a tough order. Both of last weekend's neck-and-neck victors, 20th Century Fox/ Regency Enterprises' "Man on Fire" and Sony Pictures/Revolution Studios' "13 Going on 30," are likely to hang tough. And if they retain 50%-60% of their opening-weekend audiences, each could end up in the $11 million-$13 million range. Since the new arrivals are all going to be hard-pressed to cross the $10 million mark, "Man" and "13" could find themselves once again battling it out for the top spot.

Paramount Pictures' "Mean Girls," opening in 2,839 locations, will try to beat the curse that's affected most of the movies aimed at younger females during the past few months. With a PG-13 rating, a script by "Saturday Night Live's" Tiny Fey -- based on, of all things, a sociological treatise, "Queen Bees and Wannabes" by Rosalind Wiseman -- and direction by Mark Waters, who scored last summer with "Freaky Friday," this study of high school cruelty promises a slightly harder edge than confections like "Ella Enchanted" and "The Prince & Me."

It also boasts teen star Lindsay Lohan as a lead. Just two months ago, Lohan headlined Walt Disney Pictures' "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen," which opened to $9.4 million and ultimately exited the market with just $29 million. In contrast, her previous film, "Freaky Friday," bowed to $22 million, boosted by the fact that it was an August release. But "Mean" is probably fated to play more like "Confessions" than "Friday," especially since it could lose some of its potential audience to the second weekend of "13."

Having postponed its release several times -- it was originally scheduled to open in May 2003 -- DreamWorks Pictures is finally launching the PG-13 "Envy" in 2,445 theaters. Directed by Barry Levinson, most recently represented by "Bandits," the comedy stars Ben Stiller and Jack Black as best pals whose friendship is tested when Black suddenly gets rich after inventing an aerosol spray that vaporizes dog droppings.

Both Black and Stiller have been on a roll of late, with Black's "School of Rock" and Stiller's "Along Came Polly" and "Starsky & Hutch" pulling in lots of fans. But though "Envy" could lure in some younger males, it also could prove to be a momentary setback for its two stars.

Aiming for an older, more female audience, New Line Cinema is offering "Laws of Attraction," a romantic comedy starring Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore as competing divorce attorneys who find themselves drawn to each other. Peter Howitt ("Sliding Doors") directed the film, which will be put on trial in 2,449 theaters.

Meanwhile, Lions Gate Films, which opened "The Punisher" just two weeks ago, is betting that there is an audience for relatively upscale horror with "Godsend." Directed by Nick Hamm ("The Hole"), the film -- its violence contained at the PG-13 level -- stars Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos as a couple who turn to a doctor (Robert De Niro) to clone a new copy of their dead son. But as the cloned boy grows up, things start to get spooky. Playing in 2,323 theaters, it does not have as large a reach as the other new wide releases.

Finally, Jim Caviezel, who has become the almost-inadvertent boxoffice star of the moment as the title character in "The Passion of the Christ," is returning in a new film. He plays the lead in Film Foundry's "Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius," a PG-rated biopic about the golf legend directed by Rowdy Herrington. It opens in 1,332 theaters.

[Hotlantan]

Geeez - Hakeem wins a TiVo from “The Alamo” and all I can hope for is some Va-poo-rizer? :o

1 MEAN GIRLS $13.3
2 MAN ON FIRE $12.6
3 13 GOING ON 30 $11.4
4 LAWS OF ATTRACTION $8.8
5 KILL BILL VOL. 2 $5.8
6 GODSEND $5.1
7 ENVY $4.8
8 THE PUNISHER $3.3
9 HOME ON THE RANGE $2.3
10 SCOOBY DOO 2 $2.1

[Hotlantan]

Friday Box Office Estimates - looks like that Va-poo-rizer is MINE! :D

1 MEAN GIRLS $8,600,000
2 MAN ON FIRE $4,254,000
3 13 GOING ON 30 $3,319,000
4 GODSEND $2,340,000
5 LAWS OF ATTRACTION $2,280,000
6 ENVY $2,120,000
7 KILL BILL VOL. 2 $1,666,000
8 THE PUNISHER $980,000
9 JOHNSON FAMILY VACATION $471,000
10 HELLBOY $463,000
11 WALKING TALL $417,000
12 SCOOBY-DOO 2 $414,000
13 HOME ON THE RANGE $412,000
14 ELLA ENCHANTED $411,000
15 BOBBY JONES: STROKE OF GENIUS $366,000

[Hakeem]

Mean Grls fnshed wth 25 mllons :eek: