You saw Space Chimps already? Lucky guy. 
I was expecting the worst from Bolt especially after I saw what it was supposed to look like (when it was American Dog - looked much better), but apparently the buzz is it’s decent, so we’ll see.
Tale of Despereaux could be okay.
Oh, and WALL-E’s Monday number - $2,579,798. Dang. That’s like Ratatouille’s number last year. Stop dropping already!
Wow. I was looking at the numbers for weekend box office earnings…I can’t believe that as of this past weekend 143 domestic theaters have already dropped WALL-E. 
You serious? Thats really sad.
Its kinda silly to drop that but keep the superhero movies that less people go to. You know?
To be fair, Ratatouille dropped more theaters at the same period as WALL-E did, so in comparison, WALL-E’s actually doing well there.
But Rat’s doing just as well in the money department now with less theaters. WALL-E’s dropping faster than any June CGI animated film in recent history (including Cars and Panda). 
I’m gonna go buy a WALL-E ticket but watch The Dark Knight this weekend. 
SC isn’t great. It’s pretty funny, though.
It’s kind of disappointing. WALL•E was expected to be Pixar’s second-biggest box office behind Finding Nemo. Most predictions I had read had this movie clocked at about $280 million (that’s $20 mil more than The Incredibles). Now it will probably only ammount to $220-225, and that’s only if it stays on track with Ratatouille from now on and doesn’t keep dropping like it has been. I do think it will outgross Kung Fu Panda, though not by much. Possibly by as little as $3-5 million. As for the top-grossing animated film of '08? Well, it’s too early to say, but the only real competition WALL•E has there is Madagascar 2. After all, it is a sequel, and the first one grossed over $193 million. I could definitely see the second doing better than the first (and coming very, very close to WALL•E’s total). Plus, it’s got a nice holiday release date going for it.
Worldwide, however, I think WALL•E will do very well. For some reason, foreign grosses were never updated last week, so WALL•E should be getting a large jump in foreign totals soon. Currently it is only in a handful of smaller markets, with the big countries like the UK, Japan, France, etc. coming later in the year, much like Ratatouille last year. So foreign grosses will start out small, then increase as time goes on. I can see WALL•E grossing almost as much as Ratatouille’s foreign gross (Rat got $414.9), and possibly more than Ratatouille worldwide ($621.4).
One other comment about WALL•E’s domestic total: a $225 mil total is NOT a bad total at all! WALL•E will still be a success no matter how much it makes. It will definitely cross the $200 million mark, which only a dozen animated films have ever done (with KFP being the latest), and incidentally, six of those twelve spots are taken with Pixar features. Pixar has yet to make a movie that’s considered a box office “failure” and WALL•E will absolutely not change that. Also, yes, WALL•E is dropping faster than was expected, but this is not the movie’s fault! There is a ton of competition this summer, more than most years. I mean, at the moment, there are no fewer than FIVE family-friendly movies in the top 10! Yet WALL•E is still pulling it’s own weight. Meet Dave completely bombed this weekend, and while “Journey to the Center of the Earth” pushed WALL•E to fourth place, it will probably have a hard time reaching it’s own $60 mil production costs. And I don’t see Space Chimps being very popular, either.
WALL•E keeps clicking along, taking blows, although not serious ones. Now, to it’s credit, Kung Fu Panda is doing exceptionally well through all this family fanfare also, but it is also probably the best non-Pixar animated film in a while…
Nice post, Shark Bait.
At this point, $225 million would be wonderful. The estimates for Tuesday are $2.47 million, which is half a million less than what Ratatouille made on the same day. Meaning it might not keep up with Rat.
You mentioned family fare - yes, this summer is very competetive with that. Rat didn’t have much I think. Hairspray is really the only thing I remember. I don’t count Harry Potter 5 or The Simpsons because I don’t think they attract whole families. Journey to the Center of the Earth on the other hand is.
We’ll see how this all plays out.
Argh. $2.3 million Wednesday. Darn you Journey to the Center of the Earth!! You’re taking WALL-E’s audience!
C’mon $200 million.
screw Journey to the Center of the Earth!
Amen.
$10 million on The Dark Knight weekend. Not bad considering the rest of the competition got slaughtered. I was expecting less than $9 million to be honest.
So far, WALL-E has totaled $182 million. Just $24 million away from Ratatouille. As long as it doesn’t drop significantly the next couple of weeks, then I think WALL-E will beat Ratatouille’s total.
At least it beat out Space Chimps (7.18 million).
Okay, so now I don’t think WALL•E will do as well as Kung Fu Panda. Although Panda took a rather significant drop this past weekend, it is still pretty much on track to reach $220 million. And I now believe WALL•E will earn closer to $215 mil.
Worldwide, however, WALL•E still has a good chance of beating KFP. Box Office Guru has fairly recent international totals listed. Right now KFP has $270 million in foreign totals, bringing it’s worldwide gross to $476.5. But Panda is slowing down. It has been released in almost all of the major markets now, and is slowly dropping from week to week. My guess is a foreign total around $350 mil., and a worldwide gross of $570. WALL•E, however, has about $53 million at this point, despite only being in a small number of markets, with only a few large ones. WALL•E’s current worldwide numbers are $235.5 million, and I still think it should reach Ratatouille’s $600+ gross.
I have a feeling WALL-E will hold on…
It will. We all know it 
But it’s obvious it will be extremely close. Too close…
We should all go see it again to give it that extra boost. Hopefully it will have a slightly longer run than KFP as Pixar films usually do. Beating the film though would be a huge boost for the film though its not critical to history, the history of Pixar vs Dreamworks shows that box office means nothing in the long run except short term bragging rights. =)
Today’s estimates are in, WALL-E’s getting back on track. The legs seem to be appearing.
$184 mil.
Good! I’m actually interested in this, and have been following their box office sine June 27th. But… When I saw Ratatouille, they gave me a Flushed Away ticket. So, if you go to see a movie, get a ticket for Wall-E, but see your movie.
-EIA-
so they gave you the wrong ticket?