I saw some of you wrote that if WALL-E gets major nomination the number might change. Why the number might change?
well our theory is that when people see that Walle got awards and nominations from high respectable places that people will go see it again just to see if it was worth its award. Also it will be a great selling bid for DVD’s…“winner of an academy award; best picture” Its walle!!!
Just more advertisement and popularity.
Yeah, when we posted that Wall•E is the #5 domestic, U.S., film of the year, that is not a final number. The movie is still in release. Up to late November here, it was about #28 on the charts and this week fell to #45 (the dvd is out). By mid-February 2009, Bolt and QofSolace will be long gone, and even the Christmas day releases will be on the wane. Then, most of the Oscar (Academy Award) nominees will still be in wide release. If one of the blockbuster movies is given a major nomination(s), then hundreds of screens may pick it up again. Late February is the dregs of the film year, anything exciting is appreciated.
DarkHand: When you say “hundreds of sceens may pick it up again,” do you mean it might get put back into the theaters for a period (this of course being in the event it gets nominated) due to its publicity?
Also, what is it that’s meant by a “number change”? Forgive me if these questions have been answered before… I am rather new, and to boot do not know much about the logistics of movies, ratings, awards etc. 
So how many Pixar’s film is like that? The domestic gross gets more.
Yes: ‘screens’ means theaters. If you want to see the movie again in a theater, just do a search in late February 2009.
‘Number change’ : if our yellow friend gets Major Nominations, the film might pick up many new theaters, which means more money and #5 Wall-E goes to #4, passing silly Hancock movie. It might even pass Dark Knight to become #1 dvd of the year. (Wall-E is the #1 dvd in the U.S.A. so far in 2008, but will soon be passed by this Batman movie. However, nothing is forever!)
Major Nominations: these reward the film makers. And the extra publicity causes some people to finally go see a movie they are sorry they missed earlier in the year. The Academy Awards is from the largest, broadest film industry group. But it’s flawed. Too many actors, and too few professional film critics. The overall lists you can read in the ‘Possible Awards’ thread show who the real winner is: WAaaaalleeeee!
Nothing is forever. Numerosos siempre changissimo!
Thank you, DarkHand, for your explanation. Unfortunately, I am one of those chums that missed it the first go-around in theaters; I thought it looked cute, but I seemed to miss all of the previews that actually explained what the movie was about. Moreso, I saw all of the (gorgeous) posters with a sad-looking WALL-E gazing at the sky, and that was it.
That being said, I would kill to see it on the big screen. Just to be on the safe side I’ll save some extra cash, considering my father really didn’t like WALL-E (a mixture of being biased against “childish animated films” and watching it without really watching it – in other words, he fell asleep twice and I finally cut it off near the end after one too many rude interruptions) and wouldn’t even consider supplying me a few showings. 