Box Office Review – Sept. 20 – Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs beats The Informant!

WEEKEND TOP 5 STUDIO ESTIMATES, SEPTEMBER 18-20, 2009

Rank. Movie Title – Weekend Gross | Theaters | Total Gross | Week #

1. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – $30.1 million | 3,119 | $30.1 million | 1
Allen’s TSR review 8/10

2. The Informant! – $10.5 million | 2,505 | $10.5 million | 1
Bayer’s TSR review 8/10
De Salvo’s TSR review 7/10

3. Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself – $10.1 million | 2,255 | $37.9 million | 2
Allen’s TSR review 6/10

4. Love Happens – $8.5 million | 1,898 | $8.5 million | 1
Bayer’s TSR review 4/10

5. Jennifer’s Body – $6.8 million | 2,702 | $6.8 million | 1
Bayer’s TSR review 6/10

Can’t complain about this weekend’s box office. The quality kids’ movie won. The quality adult comedy came in second. It seems like we’ve learned two things … Megan Fox isn’t the draw studios thought she was, and you put Jennifer Aniston in a romantic comedy and enough people will see it. No matter how painful it is.

As far as my predictions in the Box Office Preview … not so good.

My prediction for the weekend of Sept. 18-20

1. ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’ – $25 million
2. ‘Jennifer’s Body’
3. ‘The Informant!’
4. ‘Love Happens’
5. ‘I Can Do Bad All By Myself’

Next week. I’ll get it next week.