Weekend Estimates: 'Tropic Thunder' with $26M 3-day and $37M 5-day Despite Michael Phelps Making History; Showbiz Satire Should Top $100M; 'The Dark Knight' No. 2 with $16.8M; 'Clone Wars' Disappoints with $15.5M and May Not Reach $40M Domestic!

14 August 2008 12:22 AM, PDT | From fantasymoguls.com | See recent Fantasy Moguls news

Steve Mason is now on Facebook. Sunday 8:30 a.m. (Pacific): The DreamWorks/Paramount comedy Tropic Thunder received a nice 17 percent bump from Friday's $8.2 million and should finish the weekend with about $26 million according to studio estimates. That means that the Ben Stiller-directed movie satire has actually scored a better three-day take than last weekend's R-rated Pineapple Express (Sony), which generated $23.24 million Friday-thru-Sunday. There was clearly some concern after Thunder opened with $6.5 million Wednesday and dipped to $4.5 million on Thursday, far behind Pineapple's $12 million Wednesday and $6 million Thursday, but the picture recovered nicely over the traditional three-day. It seems clear now that the Seth Rogen/James Franco comedy was helped by getting a jump on the Beijing Olympics by two days, and the Under 25s that rushed to see the movie are not traditional Olympics fans anyway.

Steve Mason

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