The Hot Blog

Wicker Man's numbers look right, but I think Crank could reach $15mil. Bored teenagers with no Snakes anyway. Wait... that came out wrong.

Crank is getting surprisingly good reviews.

Wasn't on my chart cause I think Crossover will make less than $4 million all weekend.

This flap over reviews of not yet completed theatre productions in Chicago seems to fit in nicely with some of the discussion on this blog:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/theater/31crit.html

Cruise works on image repair:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-ap-people-shields,1,2783987.story?track=rss

I still look forward to the articles based on the box officeof his next few films.

Sorry to be so chatty this AM but accoding to the following URL, The Hot Blog is worth $136,000. Way to go, DP. In my business, the next question is how do you monetize it?

http://www.business-opportunities.biz/projects/how-much-is-your-blog-worth/

OH yeah, my blog is worth just $1,100 :-(

Not sure if David's around today or in Telluride but:

1. CRANK UNIVERSAL 2,515 3,265,000 1,298 n/a 3,265,000
2. INVINCIBLE BVI 2,921 2,988,000 1,023 -44% 25,628,000
3. WICKERMAN, THE WARNER BROS. 2,784 2,743,000 985 n/a 2,743,000
4. LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE FOX SEARCHLIGHT 1,602 1,821,000 1,137 -11% 27,919,000
5. ILLUSIONIST, THE YARI FILM GROUP 889 1,588,000 1,786 230% 5,569,200
6. TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY SONY 3,001 1,515,000 505 -40% 132,192,000
7. ACCEPTED UNIVERSAL 2,819 1,266,000 449 -40% 24,792,000
8. CROSSOVER SONY 1,023 1,162,000 1,136 n/a 1,162,000
9. STEP UP BVI 2,553 1,156,000 453 -41% 54,007,000
10. WORLD TRADE CENTER PARAMOUNT 3,021 1,075,000 356 -40% 58,978,000

(1) Is Mr. P's table based on 3-day or 4-day estimates? This is a 4-day weekend in the US and Canada.

(2) "The Illusionist" in the Friday top 5 -- whowoulda thunkit? The Clairidge arthouse in Montclair added it yesterday -- one week AFTER the AMC megaplex in Hamilton.

(3) "Crank" is a Lionsgate release.

Chucky, those are copied directly from Showbizdata (probably should have provided a link: http://www.showbizdata.com/dailybox.cfm...my bad).. and they do make errors like that one.

I believe that most of those predictions are based on 4-day.

Yeah, I'm very impressed with The Illusionist... It's definitely a success for the Yari Film Group, one I don't expect them to repeat with Haven.

Direwolf, mine is worth $17,500.74
http://kamikazecamel.blogspot.com/
Go me!

Someone had to do it:

hollywood-elsewhere.com is worth $210,573.42
deadlinehollywooddaily.com is worth $387,274.44

Then again, I'm sure moviecitynews as a whole is worth more than both those combined.

Actually, I doubt MCN is so valued by whatever crazy system they are using on that site.

The reality of MCN on those sites is that we don't use ad servers and therefore, for reasons I don't know but have been told about by web pros, we don't register anything but a small fraction of our numbers. I imagine our Alexa ranking is similarly inaccurate.

Those numbers are probably based on click-throughs, that is, people clicking on the ads generated by the ad servers. The more people click on the ads, the greater a site's value. At least, that's how I think it works.

This place is a bit more accurate than Alexa for web rankings:

http://ranking.websearch.com

Never quite figure what it all meant, because having a lot of traffic doesn't always mean making money... but I'm just glad I don't have to deal with any of that stuff. :)

Technorati (the system that the original link was using) is a page that monitors how often your blog/site is linked from other blogs/sites and ranks it.

...so... i dunno. Technorati has nothing to do with ads. I don't have ads on my blog.

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