Other Crap

Daily Box Office - Friday, March 31, 2006

• Ice Age 2 opened huge with $21 million on Friday alone. It should exceed its predicted mid-50s estimates.
• It is becoming ever more evident that there is a huge market for films with African-American characters. ATL will approximately double its expectations, and that is becoming ever more commonplace for films targeting black audiences.
• As expected, Basic Instinct 2 will bomb, although the explosion will apparently be worse than expected.
• Since BI2 was expected to suck, the only genuine disappointment among the new releases is Slither, a horror/comedy which was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, but microscopic grosses. It took in less per theater than Basic Instinct 2.