WEEKEND TOP 5 STUDIO ESTIMATES, SEPTEMBER 12-14, 2008 Rank. Movie Title (Distributor) Weekend Gross | Theaters | Total Gross | Week #

1. Burn After Reading (Focus Features) $19.4 million | 2,651 | $19.4 million | 1

2. Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (Lionsgate) $18.0 million | 2,070 | $18.0 million | 1

3. Righteous Kill (Overture Films) $16.5 million | 3,152 | $16.5 million | 1

4. The Women (2008) (Picturehouse) $10.1 million | 2,962 | $10.1 million | 1

5. The House Bunny (Sony / Columbia) $4.3 million | 2,763 | $42.2 million | 4

Source: Box Office Mojo (www.boxofficemojo.com)

Wow, what happened to Tropic Thunder -- it dropped out of the top 5. Oh well, guess it was time to go with so many new films opening this weekend.

And we have a new competition here on TSR. Staff writers will be competing for box office supremacy. Predicting the order of the Top 5 films at the box office each week. For each film put in the correct place, that's a correct point, and tiebreakers will be decided by the top place.

Results will be listed here. And trust us ... there is no reason we would lie, these are actual results.

David Pohl - 1. Burn After Reading 2. Righteous Kill 3. The Women 4. Tyler Perry's The Family that Preys 5. Proud American

Jeff Bayer - 1. Righteous Kill 2. Tyler Perry's The Family that Preys 3. The Women 4. Burn After Reading 5. Tropic Thunder

Overall Results - Jeff Bayer = 0 David Pohl = 1 Chris De Salvo = DNP Thomas Padree = DNP

Thrilling start. Simply Thrilling.