SPEARE'S TIPS - The Films of 10/7/11

[Shrykespeare]

Theater Counts:

Real Steel - 3,440
The Ides of March - 2,199
The Way - 33
Dirty Girl - 9

Moneyball, What's Your Number?, Dream House and 50/50 all expand.


Next week's estimates:

Footloose - 3,300
The Thing - 2,900+
The Big Year - 2,200
Texas Killing Fields - 3
The Skin I Live In - NY/LA

[Shrykespeare]

Early Weekend Estimates (BoxOffice.com):

Real Steel, $26.5M
The Ides of March, $10.5M
Dolphin Tale, $9.8M
Moneyball, $7.7M
50/50, $5.6M
Courageous, $4.6M
Dream House, $4.2M
The Lion King, $4.1M
What's Your Number, $3.2M
Contagion, $3.0M
Abduction, $2.9M

Hmm. I expected Courageous to hold better than that.

[Shrykespeare]

Friday Estimates (BOM):

Real Steel, $8.55M
The Ides of March, $3.45M
Dolphin Tale, $2.4M
Moneyball, $2.225M
50/50, $1.781M
Courageous, $1.4M
Dream House, $1.359M
The Lion King, $1.205M
What's Your Number, $1.025M
Abduction, $850K
Contagion, $845K

[ROBDude]

Wow. Real Steel made a lot of money. I may go see it again at the AMC River East 21 in Chicago.

And to announce, I now live in Chicago. My Parents feuded with me for some reason, I don't know why they feuded with me, maybe it's because of my attitude with them. My Parents sent me to Chicago so that they would never see me again, and as of today, I now live with famous internet celebrity, Doug Walker, famous for starting Thatguywiththeglasses.com. It was kind of depressing for me that my Parents feuded me, after all the care they've given to me, how come they don't love me anymore!?

[Geezer]

Are you convinced yet?

[ROBDude]

I Am Convinced. Probably because my Parents don't want to see me again because of my attitude I gave them last week, which caused them to send me to Chicago.

[englishozzy]

random

[Geezer]

He's a fucking idiot. Boosh, leave this up for everyone to see. Otherwise, do your worst.

[undeadmonkey]

bahahahahA!! even funnier than the origins story. still no one can deny it now

[W]

When I was a HS sophmore, there was this senior that made up all these stories about how he survived a ninja attack, beat up the captain of the wrestling team (who seriously got expelled for making a friend of mine's spleen burst), was thrown through the front windshield of a semi, and other similar stories. No one challenged the guy because he was literally crazy and scary (like Hooch). The kid was probably schizophrenic or something.

I hadn't thought about that in ten or so years...

This kid probably needs help.

[Chienfantome]

I don't know what to say, I'm baffled...

[ROBDude]

He's a fucking idiot. Boosh, leave this up for everyone to see. Otherwise, do your worst.

This is for REAL, Man! For REAL! I'm Not trying to cause Randomness Here!

[undeadmonkey]

hadn't thought of that W, i thought he was just a regular troll.

[W]

He reminds me of when Janitor (on Scrubs) always went into weird stories, like when his "wife" made those shorts for J.D. and he said she only had three fingers (pinky and thumb/pointer).

[Shrykespeare]

Ahem.

Sunday Estimates (BOM):

Top 11:
5 points - Reel Steel, $27.3M
4 points - The Ides of March, $10.4M
3 points - Dolphin Tale, $9.2M
2 points - Moneyball, $7.5M
1 point - 50/50, $5.5M
Courageous, $4.6M
The Lion King, $4.5M
Dream House, $4.5M
What's Your Number?, $3M
Abduction, $2.9M
Contagion, $2.8M

PTA (Aug/Sep):
5 points - Real Steel
4 points - Take Shelter
3 points - The Ides of March
2 points - The Way
1 point - Courageous

PTA (Oct):
5 points - Real Steel
4 points - The Ides of March
3 points - The Way
2 points - Dirty Girl