[gopwinsin04]

They did market the movie right, seemed like it was everywhere.

[flashbunny]

Which proves that even though hollywood is out of new ideas, the public is still eager to devour rehashes of old ideas.

[MarkL]

Wow! There are actually 3 movies out that I want to see.

Star Wars, The Longest Yard, and Madagascar.

I was SO disapointed with Hitchhikers Guide. I've got a feeling that I'm going to be disapointed with TLY too. I'm just not a fan of Adam Sandler.

Mark

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Looks like Hanoi Jane's got the kiss of death. The movie will be out of the theaters in two weeks.

[KeyWest]

The weekend will tell if it has legs. Doubt if it wil beat TROTS.

[moehoward]

The original was done on the cheap, but still not bad. I'll wait for DVD of this one.

[bigsigh]

premature

[JoeSixPack1]

Somebody is lie-ing!!

Sith also set the standard for single-day total, with its $50 million opening-day haul beating Shrek 2's previous mark of $44.8 million.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1409428/posts

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20050523/en_movies_eo/16604/nc:790

So is it $50 million or $15.5 million?????

[Brilliant]

I'm betting that Lucas somehow juiced the opening night numbers on Star Wars so that it would beat the record, and is now making up for the gap.

[WolfRunnerWoman]

We're fixin' to do a double feature of TLY and Star Wars. Hubby wants to watch Star Wars and I wanna watch TLY.

I LOVE Adam Sandler. Not only is he funny, but he's a right handsome Jewish Prince.(-;

[rang1995]

Good for him "sandler" showed up the critics!

[skaterboy]

I liked Longest yard...once you get passed the insane casting of Sandler as any kind of jock

[Dr. Scarpetta]

What is Madagascar about?

[rang1995]

Full chart
2nd ## is avg per theater
Title
(Click to view chart) Friday
5/27
(Estimates) Saturday
5/28 Sunday
5/29 Monday
5/30
1 THE LONGEST YARD

3,634 $15,750,000

-- / $4,334
$15,750,000 / 1
N/A
N/A
N/A
2 STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH

3,663 $15,470,000

70.4% / $4,223
$215,913,000 / 9
N/A
N/A
N/A
3 MADAGASCAR

4,131 $14,030,000

-- / $3,396
$14,030,000 / 1
N/A
N/A
N/A
4 MONSTER-IN-LAW

3,230 $2,690,000

81.1% / $833
$52,345,000 / 15
N/A
N/A
N/A
5 KICKING AND SCREAMING

2,966 $1,270,000

38.2% / $428
$38,884,000 / 15
N/A
N/A
N/A
6 CRASH

1,680 $1,250,000

91.5% / $744
$31,388,000 / 22
N/A
N/A
N/A
7 UNLEASHED

1,419 $501,000

20.4% / $353
$20,112,000 / 15
N/A
N/A
N/A
8 THE INTERPRETER

1,171 $468,000

49.1% / $400
$67,061,000 / 36
N/A
N/A
N/A
9 KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

1,328 $427,000

8.8% / $322
$43,251,000 / 22
N/A
N/A
N/A
10 HOUSE OF WAX

1,635 $388,000

16.5% / $237
$28,621,000 / 22
N/A
N/A
N/A
11 THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

801 $174,000

-29.7% / $217
$47,993,000 / 29
N/A
N/A

[LS]

I wouldn't make too much of this. I plan to see Star Wars again, but want to give it a week. I think many people are in the same boat.

[hershey]

Well, the one person I know who saw Star Wars 3 said it was slow, basically a stinker.

[BurbankKarl]

I think everyone who needed to see Star Wars already did.

oh well.

[Recovering_Democrat]

I'll be surprised if that holds true over the weekend.

[jonrick46]

If Lucas had not made his snotty remarks about President Bush, I might have slept through another tired version of Star Wars.

Lucas, you're either with us or against us. If you are against us, you are our enemy.

[sharktrager]

I suspect Longest Yard will not win the weekend. Saturday and Sunday will skew towards Star Wars and Madagascar, as these movies included younger people in their target market, and are both more likely to have repeat viewers.

[sharktrager]

Both Sith and Madagascar are going to beat Longest Yard this weekend, with Sith remaining number one.

http://boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/