- Batman held on to #1 despite a 45% drop from last weekend. The Perfect Man virtually dropped off the chart.
- The total gross for the top dozen films was off 16% from last year, marking the 18th consecutive week to finish below the equivalent week in the previous year. That is the longest such slump in the history of modern record-keeping.
- Analysts have made too much of that slump. The basic explanation is that last year was an unusual year. Fahrenheit 911 and The Passion of the Christ brought lots of non-moviegoers into the theaters. The revenues from those two films engorge last year's grosses, like a pig passing through a python. If one studies the revenue history over a longer period than a single year, the numbers make more sense. Last year's weekend was up $25 million over the previous year, attributable almost entirely to an opening weekend of $24 million for Fahrenheit 911. Here is this weekend compared to the equivalent weekend for the past two years.
2003 - $113m
2004 - $138m
2005 - $116m
- If you assume that the Fahrenheit 911 business was a windfall of incremental revenue from non-traditional moviegoers, and compare only the remaining films, then the numbers look completely sensible - like this
2003 - $113m
2004 - $114m
2005 - $116m
| Title | Warrior Prediction | Actual | Diff% |
| Batman Begins | 28.8 | 26.7 | -7 |
| Bewitched | 23.3 | 20.2 | -13 |
| Mr. and Mrs. Smith | 15.3 | 16.7 | 9 |
| Herbie | 14.5 | 12.8 | -12 |
| Land of the Dead | 8.8 | 10.2 | 16 |
| Madagascar | 7 | 7.3 | 4 |
| Sith | 5.7 | 6.3 | 11 |
| Longest Yard | 4.9 | 5.5 | 12 |
| Shark Boy | 3.8 | 3.4 | -11 |
| Perfect Man | 3.1 | 2.5 | -19 |
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