Do you think SW The Clone Wars will beat The Dark Knight this weekend?

Re: Do you think SW The Clone Wars will beat The Dark Knight this week

Here are the box office estimates for Friday:

1. Tropic Thunder - $8.2 million
2. The Clone Wars - $6.25 million
3. The Dark Knight - $5 million

If The Clone Wars keeps that pace, it may actually beat The Dark Knight. Tropic Thunder, barring a huge drop, definitely will.

 

Re: Do you think SW The Clone Wars will beat The Dark Knight this week

But...but...

...everyone was SO SURE that it couldn't!

I'm quite surprised that so many of you thought that a month-old movie could keep ahead of Clone Wars, but that's what most of the predictions were.

Oh well, maybe Sunday will be a total reversal and everyone will be proven correct.

 

Re: Do you think SW The Clone Wars will beat The Dark Knight this week

And we were.

Weekend estimates are just in:

1. Tropic Thunder - $26 million
2. The Dark Knight - $16.79 million
3. The Clone Wars - $15.505 million

Everything went according to plan.

 

Re: Do you think SW The Clone Wars will beat The Dark Knight this week

I can't say how thrilled I am that The Dark Knight stayed ahead of Clone Wars. As I said in another thread, it was a double victory against Star Wars: first outranking it as the second highest grossing film of all time, and second by beating it at the box office for #2.

Way to go, Batman.

 

Re: Do you think SW The Clone Wars will beat The Dark Knight this week

This just in: in response to Tropic Thunder finally unseeding The Dark Knight as the top box office draw, Warner has hired for the next Batman movie -- Robert Downey, Jr. as Riddler, Jack Black as Penguin, Matthew McConaughey as Deadshot, Nick Nolte as Rupert Thorne, Tom Cruise as Hugo Strange and Ben Stiller as Mad Hatter.