Excellent stuff, thanks for posting that, most interesting and nice to see. 
I guess they were right when there were predictions that WALL-E would have legs! Thanks for those numbers, martini and miafka.
Actuals are in. It actually grossed $3,140,083 over the weekend, about $30,000 more than estimated, totalling $210.2 million. 
WALL-E is doing some major business!
WALL-E daily: $561,058
Kung Fu Panda daily: $282,367
Ratatouille daily: $350,792
Can anyone say legs?
WALL-E total: $210,767,640
KFP total: $211,430,051
If WALL-E keeps making what it made on Monday, it will PASS Kung Fu Panda as early as Wednesday! And it came out three weeks before!!!
WALL-E officially became the #1 animated film of the year yesterday, passing Panda. It’s now at (estimated) $211,822,000.
Excellent news, and richly deserved too! 
Go WALL-E!! Number one animated movie of the year! I’m so happy it picked up after a few dissapointing weeks. Hopefully it’ll end around 220-225 million.
Brilliant! So, now it’s not only the best animated movie of the year, but the numbers are proving it!
It’s sure got ‘legs’ - hope that doesn’t push back the DVD and Blu-ray release in November, but I doubt it as Disney/Pixar will be after the Christmas market by then.
That’s awesome news, E.S.! I also agree with you martini833 and hope it keeps going to pick up at least another $10million.
Since it’s beat Kung Fu Panda and Ratatouille at the box office domestically, what other realistic goals do you think it can pull off? Are there any other Pixar films it is within range of beating that it hasn’t already? DreamWorks? How about foreign box office, think it can overtake Ratatouille and Kung Fu Panda’s foreign grosses?
Not sure about foreign box office, Rat and Panda have very good numbers there and I’m not sure Wall-E can catch them - although it hasn’t been released in all markets yet, so we’ll see.
As for domestically, the next CGI animated film for it to target is Cars ($244 million) - and I think that’s out of range by now. I think the absolute best it can shoot for is $230 million - and that’s if a miracle happens. Realistically I think it can shoot for $223 million, which is not a bad number at all.
As for being the #1 animated film this year - we’ll have to wait on Madagascar 2. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was slated to be released this Thanksgiving and take away a lot of family audiences, but WB moved it to summer 2009 (which could take away audiences from Up! 
) and now all bets are off. Looks like the move will benefit Bolt as well.
I’m sure WALL-E can pass KFP and maybe Ratatouille internationally. You have to take into consideration it only took a month to roll KFP completely out at the world box office while WALL-E isn’t finished yet and won’t be until December! That’s half a year versus a month!
After roughly calculating how it’s going, I saw that it is possible for WALL-E to end at $230, but it’ll most likely end a little over $220.
Hopefully Bolt will be enough competition for Madagascar, although I was really counting on HP. At least Bolt is closer now so it causes a disturbance to that money grubbing piece of- that is DreamWorks, earlier. I’ve been thinking, maybe the sequel will only be a small step-up (box-office wise) from the original like Ice Age 2, but that’s unlikely…
P.S. Don’t worry about Up just yet (at least not about Harry Potter’s involvement), it wont affect Up directly, they’re a month and a half apart.
Actually if you look at it, Madagascar is somewhat surrounded by potential teeny bopper movies - High School Musical 3 a few weeks earlier, then Bolt (with Miley Cyrus) three weeks later. This is the one time I am hoping the teeny boppers go out in full force and support their people. 
Yeah, I have no clue how well Wall-E is going to do internationally, but I think it will definitely perform better than Cars.
My only concern with HP6 being released a month and a half away is it could affect Up’s late legs. As this year has proven, even though Kung Fu Panda was doing relatively well, it still dropped a lot of theaters when The Dark Knight was released - and it was on pace to beating Wall-E before that happened. Its legs got cut off pretty badly after that, and I don’t want to see the same thing happen to Up.
Maybe 3D will help.
This weekends estimates are in:
boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/char … necgvs.htm
WALL-E’s got an outstanding: $214,134,000
For those interested, the latest International box office numbers as of this past weekend stands at $146.2 million. From a Screen Daily article from August 17th:
"Wall-E grossed $13.8m through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International in 3,824 theatres in 29 territories and stands at $146.2m. The film opened top in six smaller markets and set a string of records in the process.
Thailand’s $800,000 from 105 screens generated the second biggest launch for a Disney animated film; the Philippines produced the third biggest with $535,000 from 70; the Czech Republic produced the biggest launch for a Disney animated release on $311,000 from 60; while Malaysia’s $380,000 from 60 delivered the third biggest.
In the second weekend, Wall-E added $2m from 360 in South Korea for $5.7m, $2m from 502 in Spain after a 35% drop, and $562,000 from 84 following a 29% slip in Venezuela for $2m. In the third weekend the film added $2.5m from 736 screens in France after a 31% drop for $17m and in the fifth session it raised its tally in the UK by $1.3m from 491 to $38m."
I think the main reason Pixar didn’t release WallE in Japan during the summer was to avoid going against Hayao Miyazaki’s latest movie, Ponyo. Not only do the two studios have a good relationship (Pixar folk such as John Lassiter handled the dubbing and preparing for US release of Miyazaki’s movies on DVD) but any movie going against a Miyazaki movie would be lost at the box office.
Someone sent me a link to the Los Angeles Times, and here it is if anyone’s interested. Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli)'s latest is blowing away the Japanese box office. If Pixar had gone against that, it wouldn’t have been good, so I’m guessing that they opted to wait for the December Christmas season.
“Miyazaki Spirits Them Away Again”
latimes.com/entertainment/ne … 0315.story
Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, whose animated film “Spirited Away” won a 2002 Oscar, has captured the hearts of Japanese moviegoers again, this time with a tale of a mermaid.
“Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea,” about the friendship between a 5-year-old boy and a mermaid girl who wishes to live in his world, has become one of the most popular Japanese movies in its home market in its first month of release, with box office sales of more than $91 million.
The film is set to be shown at the Venice Film Festival, which starts next week, and then it will be distributed in the United States, said a spokesman for Japanese distributor Toho Co. Ltd., although details have not been set.
Wall-E’s international box office (not including North America) now stands at $152.6 million as of August 21st.
Source: Screen Daily
screendaily.com/ScreenDailyA … hSite.aspx
This week’s domestic estimate is in: $216,191,000
Great job, WALL-E and Pixar!!!
You Goo Pixar !!