..Gary Dretzka
..Noah Forrest
..Leonard Klady
..R.J. Matson
..David Poland
..Douglas Pratt
..Ray Pride
..Michael Wilmington

February 3 , 2008 Weekend Estimates Domestic Market Share Holey Hannah/The Miley High Club ... Hannah Montana in 3-D reigned in its weekend debut with an estimated record-breaking $29.7 million. The singing sensation eclipsed a trio of other freshmen including a tidy second place finish of $13.1 million for the chiller The Eye. However, not many got the joke of either Over Her Dead Body or Strange Wilderness that bowed respectively with grosses of $4 million and $3 million. Activity in limited and alternative arenas was unusually quiet though the Lebanese female empowerment comedy Caramel generated a very sturdy $6,200 theater average from 12 engagements. Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert in 3-D proved to be quite a mouthful as it bowed in every location with ReelD capability and in an additional 30 sites with comparable 3-D systems. Brushing aside setting a handful of Super Bowl weekend box office records, the film played very much like a Disney family film with the caveat that post 9 p.m. performances were also selling out. The release was mapped out as a special event, locked one week engagement. Though the distribution community was under the impression that a 2D run would be mounted later in the year, Buena Vista distribution president Chuck Viane insists that makes no sense. What has changed since Friday matinee business is that the 7-day engagements are now open-ended engagements. The latest horror adaptation from Japan, The Eye, had a better than respectable launch and maybe better than that considering its close proximity to One Missed Call. But familiarity seemed to work against Over Her Dead Body, the umpteenth romantic comedy in which the untimely deceased lover returns to wreck havoc on the surviving partner's new romance. The questionably eco-humorous Strange Wilderness seemed to slip into the marketplace without much enthusiasm from its distributor. Overall business was pushing close to $125 million that represented a 14% decline from seven days earlier. However, on the traditionally soft (particularly Sunday) Super Bowl session, box office expanded by a rather amazing 40%. In 2007, the leaders were new entries The Messengers and Because I Said So that finished their first weekends with box offices of $14.7 million and $13.1 million. Last weekend leaders Meet the Spartans and Rambo each took sharp 60% plus hits and Cloverfield continues to evaporate rapidly. The pictures playing the Oscar card are benefiting from Academy attention though one would be hard pressed to say either the individual or collective awards boost is as buoyant or significant as seen in past years. - Leonard Klady Weekend Estimates - February 1-3, 2008 Title Distributor Gross (average) % change * Theaters Cume Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus Concert BV 29.7 (43,550) - 683 29.7 The Eye Lions Gate 13.1 (5,370) - 2436 13.1 27 Dresses Fox 8.5 (2,850) -37% 2976 57.2 Juno Fox Searchlight 7.3 (2,960) -28% 2475 110.1 Meet the Spartans Fox 7.0 (2,640) -62% 2643 28.2 Rambo Lions Gate 6.8 (2,450) -63% 2764 29.6 The Bucket List WB 6.8 (2,330) -36% 2915 67.6 Untraceable Sony 5.2 (2,200) -54% 2368 19.3 There Will Be Blood Par Vantage 4.8 (3,190) -1% 1507 21.1 Cloverfield Par 4.8 (1,600) -62% 3007 71.9 Over Her Dead Body New Line 4.0 (2,000) - 1977 4 Strange Wilderness Par 3.0 (2,510) - 1208 3 Atonement Focus 2.9 (2,140) -25% 1367 42.1 National Treasure: Book of Secrets BV 2.9 (1,680) -41% 1733 209.7 Alvin and the Chipmunks Fox 2.7 (1,390) -40% 1958 207.6 No Country for Old Men Miramax 2.2 (1,760) -8% 1273 55.2 Michael Clayton WB 1.8 (1,740) -21% 1010 44.1 Mad Money Overture 1.7 (1,040) -62% 1665 18.3 First Sunday Sony 1.4 (1,410) -57% 1015 36.5 How She Move Vantage/Mongrel 1.4 (970) -64% 1461 6 I Am Legend WB 1.0 (1,330) -53% 777 253.3 U2 3D nWave .77 (12,620) -20% 61 2.2 The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything Uni .60 (790) -54% 765 11.2 Sweeney Todd Par .53 (1,000) -56% 536 51.5 Charlie Wilson's War Uni .50 (1,210) -46% 412 65.4 Weekend Total ($500,000+ Films) - $121.40 - - - % Change (Last Year) - 40% - - - % Change (Last Week) - -14% - - - Also debuting/expanding Diving Bell and the Butterfly Miramax .43 (2,110) 8% 205 3.7 The Savages Fox Searchlight .39 (1,940) -11% 201 4.7 Persepolis Sony Classics .33 (3,470) -4% 95 1.8 Caramel Roadside At. 74.500 (6,210) - 12 0.07 The Witnesses Strand 14,700 (4,900) - 3 0.01 Tre  Cinema Libre 3,600 (1,800) - 2 0.01   Domestic Market Share - To January 31, 2008 Distributor (titles) Gross* Market Share Warner Bros. (10) 172.1 20.40% Fox (6) 142.1 16.90% Paramount (4) 92.8 11.00% Buena Vista (5) 88.4 10.50% Fox Searchlight (3) 77.6 9.20% Sony (7) 76.2 9.00% Universal (3) 37.9 4.50% Par Vantage (5) 29.7 3.50% Focus (2) 28.1 3.30% Lions Gate (3) 22.9 2.70% Overture (1) 16.5 2.00% MGM (5) 15.1 1.80% Miramax (2) 13.7 1.60% New Line (1) 8.9 1.10% Picturehouse (1) 5.3 0.60% FreeStyle (2) 4.7 0.60% Other * (21) 11.1 1.30% - 843.1 100.00%