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

August 30, 2009 Weekend Estimates Domestic Market Share Flight Fright The debut of The Final Destination (we can only hope) usurped the competition to lead weekend ticket sales with an estimated $28.4 million. The penultimate summer weekend included two additional national preems. Another old pal, Halloween II, opened in position three with $17.2 million but there was little nostalgia for Taking Woodstock with a $3.7 million tally. Among limited freshmen releases there was torrid response to the doc profile September Issue on Elle fashionista (and The Devil Wears Prada inspiration) Anna Wintour of $162,000 from four runways. Also good were the black comic Big Fan with $22,900 at two venues and Japanese import Still Walking with $18,700 also on two screens. Overall business was on par with the previous weekend with roughly $127 million in the till. However, it was a significant 23% improved from 2008 and the combination of an August spike and the calendar affording an additional week this year, box office will see a noticeable upturn. Through the current weekend summer box office has generated slightly more than $4 billion. That figure exceeds last year’s seasonal record by 1.1% and the added seven days should narrow the admission’s gap summer-to-summer. by Leonard Klady Weekend Estimates: August 28-30, 2009 Title Distributor Gross (average) % change * Theaters Cume The Final Destination WB 28.4 (9,110) - 3121 28.4 Inglourious Basterds Weinstein Co. 19.2 (6,070) -49% 3165 72.9 Halloween II Weinstein Co. 17.2 (5,670) - 3025 17.2 District 9 Sony 10.4 (3,260) -43% 3180 90.5 G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra Par 8.0 (2,300) -34% 3467 132.4 Julie & Julia Sony 7.2 (2,880) -20% 2503 70.8 The Time Traveler's Wife WB 6.7 (2,250) -32% 2961 48.1 Shorts WB 4.8 (1,550) -25% 3105 13.5 Taking Woodstock Focus 3.7 (2,680) - 1393 3.7 G-Force BV 2.8 (1,460) -32% 1926 111.8 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince WB 2.6 (1,710) -26% 1508 294.4 (500) Days of Summer Fox Searchlight 2.0 (2,240) -11% 909 25.2 Ponyo BV 1.9 (2,210) -20% 880 11.1 The Ugly Truth Sony 1.6 (1,290) -42% 1252 85.8 Post Grad Fox Searchlight 1.5 (770) -43% 1959 5.3 The Hangover WB 1.4 (1,760) -4% 801 270.3 The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard Par Vantage 1.2 (820) -56% 1426 13.8 The Proposal BV .62 (1,190) -22% 520 160.1 Up BV .59 (1,510) 86% 392 289.6 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Par .56 (900) -42% 622 399.4 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Fox .53 (1,230) -29% 432 193.2 Weekend Total ($500,000+ Films) - $122.90 - - - % Change (Last Year) - 23% - - - % Change (Last Week) - 0% - - - Also debuting/expanding Adam Searchlight .35 (1,990) 42% 177 1.4 The Hurt Locker Summit .27 (880) -30% 306 11.6 In the Loop IFC .17 (2,340) -16% 74 1.8 September Issue Roadside Attract. .16 (40,620) - 4 0.16 My One and Only FreeStyle 79,600 (7,960) 36% 10 0.17 Big Fan First Independ 22,900 (11,450) - 2 0.02 Still Walking IFC 18,700 (9,350) - 2 0.02 The Open Road Anchor Bay 14,300 (1,100) -- 13 0.01 Daddy Cool Big Picture 9,800 (820) -- 12 0.01 Mystery Team Roadside At. 8,600 (8,600) - 1 0.01 We Live in Public Intl Film Circ. 8,400 (8,400) - 1 0.01   Domestic Market Share: To August 27, 2009 Distributor (releases) Gross Mrkt Share Warner Bros. (25) 1462.9 20.30% Paramount (13) 1305.5 18.10% Fox (13) 907.2 12.50% Buena Vista (15) 878.3 12.20% Sony (16) 852.9 11.80% Universal (16) 678.4 9.40% Lions Gate (7) 237.4 3.30% Fox Searchlight (9) 222.6 3.10% Summit (8) 164.3 2.30% Focus (6) 105.3 1.40% Weinstein Co. (7) 88.2 1.20% Paramount Vantage (3) 65.1 0.90% MGM (3) 52.4 0.60% Miramax (5) 41.4 0.60% Other * (205) 165.2 2.30% * none greater than 0.4% 7217 100.00%