..Gary Dretzka
..Noah Forrest
..Leonard Klady
..David Poland
..Douglas Pratt
..Ray Pride
..Kim Voynar
..Michael Wilmington

July 6, 2008 Weekend Estimates Domestic Market Share Top Grossers Canada 'Cock of the Walk Where there's a Will (Smith), there's a weigh (ty) opening and his latest, Hancock, easily out-paced the Independence holiday frame competition with a debut weekend gross estimated at $66.3 million. There was scant incoming competition though Kit Kittredge: An American Girl went wide and generated a disappointing $3.2 million that ranked it eighth overall on the charts. Conversely there was torrid activity in niche and specialized realms. Dueling Bollywood entries saw audiences opting for the more traditional Jaane Tu Yu Janne Na that grossed a hearty 242,000 while the expensive, futuristic Love Story 2050 eked out a torpid $74,600 from almost twice as many playdates. There was excellent response for the aggressively released Hunter Thompson doc Gonzo of $174,000 from 25 screens and potent returns for exclusive runs of American indie and Sundance fave The Wackness of about $130,000 from six sites and French thriller Tell No One of $160,000 from eight venues. In a sole Manhattan engagement, another indie, Kabluey, bowed to an impressive $7,900. Overall business was slightly down from 2007 but last year's Wednesday celebration was disadvantaged by its mid-week placement. Hancock, the wry take on movie superheroes, was highly anticipated thanks to Smith's participation and pundits were generally expecting its 5 ½ day tally to ring up somewhere in the range of $115 - $125 million. The marginally lower result might be attributable to misinterpreted data, good weather or generally downbeat critical response. Regardless, exit polls once again reflected the performer's appeal to both genders as well as roughly equal drawing power for younger and older audiences. Internationally Hancock bowed in 50 countries and generated an estimated $78 million. In the U.K. it opened to $13 million, Australian box office was $7.4 million while Brazil added $2.5 million. It generally ranked first including a $1 million total in the depressed German market and will easily wind up generating at least 50% more than domestic box office that's likely to have difficulty exceeding $200 million if it fails to sustain against upcoming blockbusters. Following strong numbers in exclusive runs, Kit Kittredge went wide for the holidays as counter-programming to the weekend behemoth. However, the result proved to be a mismatch on the order of Bambi meets Godzilla and the pre-teen literary giant wussed out with theater averages of less than $1,800. Weekend box office dipped slightly below $180 million or 11% diminished from seven days earlier. It was also 5% behind the 2007 pace when the debut of Transformers led with a $70.5 million weekend and counter-programmed freshman entry License to Wed ranked with a $10.4 million gross. Holdover titles generally experienced drops between 40% and 50% including a sharper than expected 46% sophomore session drop for Wall-E. The latest Pixar animated entry is experiencing stiffer than expected competition from Kung Fu Panda despite critical hosannas and appears to be headed toward a comparatively disappointing domestic run. - Leonard Klady Weekend Estimates - July 4-6, 2008 Title Distributor Gross (average) % change * Theaters Cume Hancock Sony 66.3 (16,710) - 3965 107.6 Wall-E BV 33.9 (8,500) -46% 3992 128.6 Wanted Uni 20.8 (6,520) -59% 3185 90.9 Get Smart WB 11.2 (3,120) -45% 3574 98.1 Kung Fu Panda Par 7.5 (2,240) -36% 3347 193.5 The Incredible Hulk Uni 4.9 (1,600) -49% 3043 124.8 Indiana Jones  Par 3.9 (1,790) -24% 2192 306.7 Kit Kittredge Picturehouse 3.2 (1,740) 2900% 1843 5.7 Sex and the City WB 2.4 (1,860) -38% 1275 144.9 Don't Mess with the Zohan Sony 1.9 (1,120) -39% 1731 94.7 The Love Guru Par 1.7 (630) -69% 2648 29.3 Iron Man Par 1.5 (1,500) -32% 1019 311.9 The Happening Fox 1.4 (780) -64% 1795 62 Mongol Picturehouse .85 (3,360) 4% 253 3.6 Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian BV .55 (1,360) -47% 403 128.8 Cruising Bar 2 Alliance .45 (3,780) -50% 120 1.7 The Visitor Overture .34 (1,940) 15% 176 8.1 Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na UTV .24 (6,920) - 35 0.24 The Strangers Uni/Alliance .22 (680) -65% 324 52 Weekend Total ($500,000+ Films) $162.00 - - - % Change (Last Year) - -5% - - - % Change (Last Week) - -11% - - - Also debuting/expanding Gonzo Magnolia .17 (6,960) - 25 0.17 Tell No One Music Box .16 (20,120) - 8 0.16 The Wackness Sony Classics .13 (21,030) - 6 0.13 Love Story 2050 Adlabs 74,600 (1,150) - 65 0.07 Diminished Capacity IFC 11,300 (2,830) - 4 0.01 Kabluey Regent 7,900 (7,900) - 1 0.01 Holding Trevor Regent 6,800 (3,400) - 2 0.01 Domestic Market Share - To July 3, 2008 Distributor (releases) Gross Market Share Paramount (12) 1055.4 22.50% Warner Bros. (16) 683.5 14.60% Fox (13) 649.6 13.80% Universal (12) 496.4 10.60% Sony (15) 476.1 10.20% Buena Vista (10) 475.1 10.20% Lions Gate (8) 203.8 4.30% Fox Searchlight (5) 150.6 3.20% Par Vantage (9) 71.8 1.50% New Line (4) 61.8 1.30% Focus (5) 60.1 1.30% Miramax (5) 48.1 1.00% MGM (9) 46.4 1.00% Summit (2) 34.9 0.70% Overture (3) 28.5 0.60% Other * (176) 149.7 3.20% * none greater than 0.45% 4691.8 100.00% Top Grossers Canada - To June 26, 2008 Title Distributor Gross Iron Man Par 27,056,630 Indiana Jones & Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Par 26,394,563 Sex and the City WB 15,701,296 Juno * Fox 14,809,547 Horton Hears a Who Fox 12,554,101 Kung Fu Panda Par 12,436,892 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian BV 12,175,488 National Treasure: Book of Secrets * BV 11,573,264 10,000 B.C.  WB 10,458,225 21 Sony 9,915,912 I Am Legend * WB 9,671,048 Alvin and the Chipmunks * Fox 9,318,547 27 Dresses Fox 8,922,972 What Happens in Vegas Fox 8,723,658 The Bucket List WB 8,400,593 Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Alliance 8,319,460 Jumper Fox 8,254,128 You Don't Mess with the Zohan Sony 8,127,918 The Incredible Hulk Uni 7,805,116 Step Up 2 BV 7,481,090   Top Global Grossers - To June 19, 2008 Title Distributor Gross Iron Man Par 300,785,869 Indiana Jones & Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Par 282,420,731 Horton Hears a Who Fox 153,493,503 Kung Fu Panda Par 133,896,159 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian BV 133,758,371 Sex and the City WB 125,920,375 Juno * Fox Searchlight 115,568,583 10,000 B.C.  WB 94,784,201 The Bucket List * WB 92,781,554 National Treasure: Book of Secrets * BV 86,700,433 21 Sony 82,629,719 Cloverfield Par 80,048,433 Jumper Fox 79,914,335 You Don't Mess with the Zohan Sony 76,855,203 27 Dresses Fox 76,808,654 What Happens in Vegas Fox 76,751,534 The Incredible Hulk Uni 74,919,370 Vantage Point Sony 73,083,080 The Spiderwick Chronicles Par 71,748,431 Fool's Gold WB 70,321,498 * does not include 2007 box office