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Screen count from Boxofficemojo.com

2,800 The Game Plan
2,700+ The Kingdom
1,200 Feast of Love
700 In the Valley of Elah (expansion)
90 Trade
2 The Darjeeling Limited (opening saturday)
1 Lust, Caution
? I'll Believe You

Looks like Lust, Caution should top PTA, but you never know with PTA.

They'll update later this afternoon or evening with exact counts instead of those estimates.

Current Imdb score from Imdb.com

8.3 Lust, Caution (384 votes) [7.1]
8.1 The Darjeeling Limited (351 votes) [7.2]
8.1 Trade (226 votes) [5.5]
8.0 I'll Believe You (29 votes) [5.1]
7.4 The Kingdom (627 votes) [7.0]

Feast of Love [7.5] 55 metacritic.com
The Game Plan [4.8] 56 metacritic.com

* Fantasy Moguls projections in brackets
+ Feast of Love and The Game Plan did not have Imdb scores at time of writing.

All the films look to have a higher imdb score than projected. This seems to be the trend. I expect Feast of Love to be the exception.

Thanks dranscht.

Live in South Africa so I'll probably be sleeping when those estimates come out.

Other Comments.

The Game Plan, and The Kingdom should both be Top 5 winners. Feast of Love and/or The Darjeeling Limited may get 1 or 2 top 5 points, but probably not.

Also opening this week, though not available in the game:
Black Irish
Uwe Boll’s Postal
Raising Flagg (starring Alan Arkin)
The Price of Sugar (Documentary narrated by Paul Newman)

Films I want to see:
The Darjeeling Limited
The Price of Sugar
The Game Plan

We await Mase’s predictions.

my humble predictions are that the Kingdom will top with about 20 mil, the The Game Plan with about 16-18mil, followed by Red Evil at about 11mil, Chuck at 6, and either Feast of Love or Yuma at about 5 mil.

Lust Caustion should top PTA, followed by Darjeeling. If Kingdom tops this weekend in BO, it should sneak a PTA point or two. I'll Belive may get a Top 5, and into the Wild should be in there somewhere too.

At $2, 'I'll Believe You' looks like a decent pick-Upset I picked Sydney White in the only game where I could use it.

Pretty much the same as yours numbersix_99, except I think that The Game Plan will take 1st place ahead of The Kingdom.

Feast of Love has a pretty wide opening but lousy reviews.
Yuma has been out for a long time, It will be interesting to see if it can steal 5th spot. Could the Valley of Elah, or Eastern Promises?

Predict the battle for 5th

Darjeeling is opening on Saturday so it has one less day to rake in those per-theatre dollars. Into the Wild is expanding but not too much while Jesse James is still only at a few theatres so those will likely be repeat PTA winners.

Trade has a high imdb but bad reviews and I think 90 theatres is too many for PTA.

RE: Feast of Love.

I was surprised that this was a pretty wide release. Even my little theatre is going to get it. I still think that both Lust and Darjeeling will be high in the PTA. Elah might compete with them still as it seems that now the word is getting out. Thanks for the numbers.

I think there's no question that The Game Plan will top the box office this weekend, and have pretty good legs too. Hasn't really been a family movie since Mr. Bean's Holiday, if you count that, and before that was Underdog, so it's been nearly 2 months.

Final weekend screen counts, as emailed to me by Box Office Mojo:

The Game Plan - 3103
The Kingdom - 2792
Feast of Love - 1200
Trade - 90
Sharkwater - 60
Darjeeling Limited - 2
Lust, Caution - 1
In the Valley of Elah (expansion) - 762

Estimates for October 5th:

The Seeker - 3200
The Heartbreak Kid - 3000
The Jane Austen Book Club - 1000+
Feel the Noise - "Wide" (wow, that's helpful)
Lust, Caution - 17
Michael Clayton - 15
The Good Night - 2

yeah. Game Plan has a huge theatre span. its gonna bulk up with money.

The Seeker is opening really wide.
Looks as if it might surpass the $16 million predicted by fantasymoguls.

Haven't found any reviews. Fans of the books seem upset about this adaptation.

Could The Seeker be a surprise hit?

Thanks for the final theatre count.

Haasing1986 wrote:

Could The Seeker be a surprise hit?

Don't think so, it looks crap.

It does look crap.
That is why it would be a surprise.

It could be like Wild Hogs and Ghost Rider minus the motorcycles. The only thing The Seeker is missing now is washed up actors, a bigger budget, and [like I mentioned] motorcycles.

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