Next Weekends Box Office (Anger Managment, The Guys, House of 1,000 Corpses)

[movies35]

**Estimated Theather Counts***
Anger Managment- 3,000
House of 1,000 Corpses- 550
The Guys- ?
Bend in like Beckinham- 200

Anger Managment- This one is gonna be huge! With Adam Sandler and Jack Nichelson as the leads, that is enough to make a 20 million dollar opening easy! But a funny movie, and with the War With Iraq happening I see this one making about 42 million.

The Guys- I don't know the theater count. But I have heard no buz around this and just heard about it today, and a movie about 9/11 coming out with the war I see this making about 1.5 million.

House of 1,000 Corpses- This is really hard to predict I think. I heard a lot of buzz around this movie, but not all of it has been good buzz. I think it is smart for Lion Gates to open this in a low theater count to see if it does well. I see this making the top 12 at about 2.6 million.

Bend it like Beckinham- Good buzz, and this has been doing pretty good for a movie that was only in about 50-100 theaters, I see this making about 50 million total. For this weekend I would say about 1 million dollars!

Bringing Down the House should still make big bucks to and make about 9-11 million. And can easily bas 150 million.

[dh1989]

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My Predictions

Anger Mangagement - This should do fairly well. Comedies are doing very well right now, and the two stars will attract immense interest. It won't be a blockbuster, but should be a pleasing hit. I predict an opening of 37 million.

House of 1000 Corpses - BOMB! This should be a bigger bomb than Willard. The trailer is awful. I don't see any NORMAL person wanting to see this. It'll turn off everyone, but a few hardcore cult horror fans. I predict an opening of 1.5 million.

Bend It Like Beckham - 5 million.

The Guys - Fair opening for a limited release, and a HUGE per-screen average.

[Tom Samborski]

Anger Management- $36 million

House Of 1000 Corpses- $1 million

[Horror whore]

Anger Managment (41 Million) If Mr. Deeds can make 35+ million in its first weekend, this will be huge. It looks much funnier than Mr. Deeds and it has Jack Nicholson...

House Of 1000 Corpses (.9 Million) This will bomb. It attracts a very small audience and its rated R so that can't help... It might acutally end up being a bigger bomb than Willard... :(

[Mike]

Originally posted by dh1989
I don't see any NORMAL person wanting to see this.

DH, I can't believe you said that. I don't care if you think it looks horrible, but you shouldn't basically say that anyone who wants to see it isn't "NORMAL." ;)


Anyway, also opening is the IMAX movie GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS (3-D) with a theater count of around 97...


Here's my predictions:

ANGER MANAGEMENT - 38.5 MILLION

HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES - 1.6 MILLION

[Adam J. Hakari]

ANGER MANAGEMENT - $25-$30 million (I've shortened my margin...are you happy now, Arto? ;))
BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM - $1-$3 million
HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES - $400-$420 thousand

[Mike]

Originally posted by Horror whore
It might acutally end up being a bigger bomb than Willard... :(


Actually, HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES cost only 7 Million to make. It might be able to finish with around 4 Million at the Box Office. It will no doubt make up the rest on video. So it's not exactly a BOMB, it wasn't made to be a big B.O. hit and it certainly wasn't made for most mainstream audiences.

[dh1989]

Originally posted by Mike
DH, I can't believe you said that. I don't care if you think it looks horrible, but you shouldn't basically say that anyone who wants to see it isn't "NORMAL." ;)

Sorry, Mike. I just keep getting this mental picture of tons of weirdos with painted faces and ugly piercings going into it, and afterwards sacrificing a pig. Sorry, I did not mean to offend anyone. :)

[bob]

Don't worry. I'm used to people frowning on my pig-sacrificing.:D

Anyhoo, I predict under 1 mil for HO1000C, and 32 million for Anger Managment.

[Mike]

Originally posted by dh1989
Sorry, Mike. I just keep getting this mental picture of tons of weirdos with painted faces and ugly piercings going into it, and afterwards sacrificing a pig. Sorry, I did not mean to offend anyone. :)


Haha! It's alright, I'll forgive ya. But just remember, not EVERYONE who sees House Of 1000 Corpses is going to be into body paint, body piercings, and animal sacrificing. I'm the exact opposite ;).

[Freeway]

I predict that with the world climate the way it is and based on how Bringing Down the House did, Anger Management will possibly gross 45-50 million during its first weekend. That may seem a little high but both actors are very popular and it is being released at the right time.
The House of 1000 Corpses will probably make around one million because it's gettting a limited release and would seem strange to mainstream audiences. I personally want to see it out of curiosity but I'm probably in the minority.

[radikill]

I think you're all underestimating. Comedy-friendly environment, Sandler's first live action comedy since Mr. Deeds, and a manic Nicholson thrown into the mix = $60 million opening weekend, guaranteed.

House of 1000 corpses will benefit from a big per-screen average thanks to internet buzz and bring in about $3 million.

[sleekproductions]

Anger Management: 48 Million
House of 1000 Corpses: 1.5 Million
The Guys: Screen Count?

[thompsoncory]

ANGER MANAGEMENT - $44 million
HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES - $1.5 million

[Mike]

*****************MY PREDICTIONS*****************


1. ANGER MANAGEMENT - 38.5 MILLION
2. PHONE BOOTH - 9.7 MILLION
3. WHAT A GIRL WANTS - 8.1 MILLION
4. A MAN APART - 6.6 MILLION
5. BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE - 5.1 MILLION
6. HEAD OF STATE - 4.7 MILLION
7. CHICAGO - 3.6 MILLION
8. THE CORE - 3.2 MILLION
9. BASIC - 2.6 MILLION
10. AGENT CODY BANKS - 2 MILLION
11. BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM - 1.9 MILLION
12. GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS - 1.9 MILLION
13. THE PIANIST - 1.7 MILLION
14. PIGLET'S BIG MOVIE - 1.6 MILLION
15. HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES - 1.6 MILLION
16. DREAMCATCHER - 1 MILLION
17. THE HUNTED - 0.9
18. OLD SCHOOL - 0.74
19. SPIRITED AWAY - 0.59
20. DYSFUNKTIONAL FAMILY - 0.55
21. THE GOOD THIEF - 0.5
22. VIEW FROM THE TOP - 0.49
23. HOW TO LOSE A GUY - 0.43
24. LOTR: TTT - 0.36
25. TEARS OF THE SUN - 0.25

[arto_j]

Originally posted by Adam J. Hakari
ANGER MANAGEMENT - $25-$30 million (I've shortened my margin...are you happy now, Arto? ;))


I am satisfied :)

My predictions :

Anger Management - $46 million
House of 1000 Corpses - $1 million

[movies35]

"The Guys" theater count is around 20-55 theaters :(

[Mike]

This is from Box Office Guru:

THIS WEEKEND Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson aim to generate one of the biggest openings of the year with their new comedy Anger Management which represents the only new wide release of the frame. The PG-13 film finds Sandler playing a mild-mannered man wrongly sentenced to anger therapy who butts heads with a psychopathic instructor, played by Nicholson. Starpower is the big selling point here and Sony has wisely chosen to focus on the actors' names and faces in their marketing materials. Despite subdued grosses for his two recent offbeat films Punch-Drunk Love and Eight Crazy Nights, Adam Sandler returns to the type of commercial comedy that made him a huge box office star with Anger Management.

Directed by Peter Segal (Nutty Professor II, Naked Gun 33 1/3), the Revolution Studios production will appeal to Sandler's large fan base of teens and young adults, but could also pull in older adults thanks to Jack. The casting and the title are both superb and Anger has built up so much industry buzz that other studios have all left town and ceded the weekend to Sony. As a result, the distributor has been able to secure a launch in a massive 3,551 playdates on Friday making it one of the widest bows in box office history.

Anger Management is not opening in the summer so reaching the levels of Sandler's biggest debut (Big Daddy's $41.5M from June 1999) will be tough work. However, comedies have been mining gold this year and with so many letdowns opening this spring, this could be the film that gets the masses back into the moviegoing habit. Sony's marketing efforts have been relentless and while Nicholson is not one to tour the talk shows to promote himself, the waterboy himself has been fulfilling his publicity duties and raising awareness. With no other new national pics, and holdovers looking to do single-digit millions each, Anger Management should have clearance to dominate the field and will attempt to break the April opening weekend record set last year by The Scorpion King with its $36.1M bow. Adam and Jack might join forces and collect around $38M this weekend.

Rocker Rob Zombie makes his writing and directing debut with the horror pic House of 1000 Corpses which Lions Gate will release in approximately 600 theaters on Friday. The R-rated fright flick has been sitting on the shelf and went through various distributors on its road to cinemas. Genre fans looking for a new cult classic will come out after waiting for so long. A debut of around $3M could be possible.

In the half-decade since Titanic's historic box office journey, director James Cameron has had no feature films hit the multiplexes. But this weekend, his 45-minute 3-D film Ghosts of the Abyss opens in 97 large-format and Imax cinemas. The G-rated piece is distributed by Buena Vista and documents a real-life underwater excursion to the wreckage of the famed ocean liner.

James Bond goes Bollywood in the new spy thriller The Hero opening in 21 theaters across North America. Video Sound's Hindi-language release stars Sunny Deol, Preity Zinta, and former Miss World Priyanka Chopra.

Paramount Classics launches the Asian-American high school drama Better Luck Tomorrow in eleven theaters in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago. The R-rated angst pic played at the Sundance and Toronto film festivals last year and was picked up by MTV Films. A much wider expansion is set for April 18.

With Sandler and Nicholson set to conquer the box office, last weekend's top film Phone Booth should be bumped down to second place. The Fox release has held up well during the week so a 35% decline to $10M could occur giving the Colin Farrell pic $29M after ten days.

What A Girl Wants debuted with weaker-than-expected results last weekend and should dip 40% to $7M this weeknd giving the Warner Bros. teen flick a ten-day cume of $20M. Vin Diesel's A Man Apart looks to fall at a similar rate for a $6.5M weekend and a sum of $20M.

[Mike]

WEEKEND THEATER COUNTS:

NEW

Anger Management (Sony) / 3,551

House of 1,000 Corpses (Lions Gate) / 595

Ghosts of the Abyss (IMAX & 35mm) (Disney) / 97

Better Luck Tomorrow (Paramount Classics) / 13

Marion Bridge (Film Movement) / 6

XX/XY (IFC) / 5 (LA, NYC)

The Young Unknowns (Indican) / 2

EXPANDING

A Man Apart (New Line) / 2,495 (+36) / 2

Phone Booth (Fox) / 2,489 (+8) / 2

Head of State (DreamWorks) / 2,256 (+101) / 3

The Pianist (Focus) / 842 (+52) / 16

Kangaroo Jack (Warner Bros.) / 288 (+203) / 13

Bend It Like Beckham (Fox Searchlight) / 216 (+99) / 5

Bowling for Columbine (United Artists) / 146 (+2) / 27

City of God (Miramax) / 108 (+18) / 13

The Good Thief (Fox Searchlight) / 60 (+51) / 2

Assassination Tango (United Artists) / 33 (+11) / 3

Amandla! (Artisan) / 13 (+1) / 8

Stevie (Lions Gate) / 9 (+2) / 3

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (First Look) / 2 (+1) / 2

NO CHANGE

The Core (Paramount) / 3,019 / 3

What a Girl Wants (Warner Bros.) / 2,964 / 2

DysFunKtional Family (Miramax) / 602 / 2

Frida (Miramax) / 87 (-27) / 25

DECLINING

Bringing Down the House (Disney) / 2,830 (-80) / 6

Basic (Sony) / 2,246 (-630) / 3

Chicago (Miramax) / 2,114 (-281) / 16

Agent Cody Banks (MGM) / 2,007 (-324) / 5

Piglet's Big Movie (Disney) / 1,859 (-162) / 4

Dreamcatcher (Warner Bros.) / 1,401 (-959) / 4

The Hunted (Paramount) / 1,090 (-595) / 5

View from the Top (Miramax) / 841 (-738) / 4

Old School (DreamWorks) / 586 (-339) / 8

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Paramount) / 527 (-300) / 10

Spirited Away (Disney) / 493 (-221) / 30

The Two Towers (New Line) / 332 (-13) / 17

The Quiet American (Miramax) / 238 (-2) / 21

About Schmidt (New Line) / 226 (-38) / 18

The Hours (Paramount) / 224 (-178) / 16

Boat Trip (Artisan) / 208 (-394) / 4

Catch Me If You Can (DreamWorks) / 200 (-94) / 16

Two Weeks Notice (Warner Bros.) / 88 (-32) / 17

Rabbit-Proof Fence (Miramax) / 77 (-4) / 20

Gangs of New York (Miramax) / 75 (-22) / 17

The Wild Thornberrys (Paramount) / 72 (-78) / 17

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Warner Bros.) / 72 (-8) / 22

Cradle 2 the Grave (Warner Bros.) / 66 (-69) / 7

Irreversible (Lions Gate) / 33 (-2) / 6

Gods and Generals (Warner Bros.) / 19 (-7) / 8

The Guru (Universal) / 17 (-7) / 11

Spun (Newmarket) / 16 (-8) / 5

Lost in La Mancha (IFC) / 10 (-5) / 11

[Horror whore]

Originally posted by Horror whore

House Of 1000 Corpses (.9 Million) This will bomb. It attracts a very small audience and its rated R so that can't help... It might acutally end up being a bigger bomb than Willard... :(

hehehe... I was way off on that prediction. House of 1000 Corpses made more money in its first day than I predicted it's make in its first weekend! I'm so happy it'll end up doing better than Willard...

[Mike]

Originally posted by dh1989
House of 1000 Corpses - BOMB! This should be a bigger bomb than Willard. The trailer is awful. I don't see any NORMAL person wanting to see this. It'll turn off everyone, but a few hardcore cult horror fans. I predict an opening of 1.5 million.



Man DH, I guess there's a lot of people out there that aren't "normal." HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES grossed 1.4 Million on Friday alone.

I know, it's shocking isn't it!? I never expected it to make that much at all. It's going to have a killer per-screen average.

[Ed]

Originally posted by Mike
It's going to have a killer per-screen average.

yes it will, i did kinda see it doing much better than some of you where saying, but not THIS much! i would see this film, it would be more out of curiosity, though i hope to have the stomach to handle it. :rolleyes: the movie is having great word of mouth from the screenings during the week, so it could have pretty good legs too.

[dh1989]

Originally posted by Ed
though i hope to have the stomach to handle it.

From what I hear, all the real gory scenes were edited or chopped up to become "quick cuts". That should turn off all major horror/monter film fans, which should cut off all Rob Zombie's film's legs.

[The Delfonics]

Originally posted by dh1989
From what I hear, all the real gory scenes were edited or chopped up to become "quick cuts". That should turn off all major horror/monter film fans, which should cut off all Rob Zombie's film's legs.

The movie isnt thaaaaaat gorey but there are some gruesome scenes esp near the end. Im no suprised its doing well. Its a horror movie and there are plenty of people out there who like horror. Itll probbaly make 2.2 million over the weekend even with its verrry limited release. Im actually predictiing 21 million to close with.

[movies35]

Shit, I think most of us were wrong on HO1C