Saturday Box Office: Resident Evil Tops $23M; Chuck w/$13M+; Penn's Into The Wild A Smash

On Saturday, Resident Evil Extinction (Sony) dipped an estimated 9%, but still managed to rake in $8.64M. With a 63% drop on Sunday, exactly what Residet Evil: Apocalypse fell on its first Sunday, the zombie scarefest will finish the weekend with $23.59M, enough to make it the biggest opening of the franchise. Meanwhile, Good Luck Chuck (Lionsgate) was essentially flat for the day, adding a an estimated $4.95M and giving the Dane Cook-Jessica Alba raunchfest a respectable $13.1M opening weekend.

The Brave One (Warner Bros) had a decent hold with a $3.33M Saturday. It'll likely finish #3 for the weekend with $7.56M, putting the Jodie Foster thriller past the $25M mark. It appears as though Eastern Promises (Focus Features) has edhed Lionsgate holdover 3:10 To Yuma for 4th place in the frame $6.1M -$6M. The other new wide opening is Sydney White, which has limped to a $2.27M Saturday and a measly $5.59M weekend.

The monster hit of the weekend is Sean Penn's Into the Wild (Paramount Vantage) which exploded for another $20,900 per location, and should finish the weekend witb a monstrous $52,600 per location. The Asassination of Jesse James by the Coward Noel Ford is  distant 2nd. Assassination's weekend PTA is a so-so $12,000 or so.

EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS EARLY SATURDAY ESTIMATES

1. NEW – Resident Evil: Extinction (Sony) â€" $8.64M – $3,057 PTA – $18.1M cume

2. NEW â€" Good Luck Chuck (Lionsgate) – $4.95M -  $1,895 PTA – $9.9M cume

3. The Brave One (Warner Bros) â€" $3.33M – $1,211 PTA – $23.2M cume

4. 3:10 to Yuma (Lionsgate) – $2.66M – $997 PTA – $35.9M cume

5. Eastern Promises (Focus Features) â€" $2.41M â€" $1,717 PTA – $5M cume

6. Mr. Woodcock (New Line) â€" $2.28M – $1,024 PTA – $14.5M cume

7. NEW â€" Sydney White (Universal) – $2.27M – $1,083 PTA – $4M cume

8. The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal) – $1.95M â€" $750 PTA – $215.2M cume

9. Superbad (Sony) -  $1.28M – $441 PTA – $115.3M cume

10. Dragon Wars (Freestyle Releasing) – $1.11M – $491 PTA – $7.7M

*Across the Universe (Sony) – $785,000 – $2,844 PTA – $2.3MM cume

*Transformers (Dreamworks/Paramount) – $618,000 – $1,605 PTA – $313.1M

*In the Valley of Elah (Warner Independent) – $413,000 – $1,303 PTA – $865,000 cume

*The Hunting Party (MGM/Weinstein) – $247,500 – $752 PTA – $606,000

EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS REVISED 3-DAY ESTIMATES

1. NEW – Resident Evil: Extinction (Sony) â€" $23.59M – $8,342 PTA – $23.59M cume

2. NEW â€" Good Luck Chuck (Lionsgate) – $13.16M -  $5.041 PTA – $13.16M cume

3. The Brave One (Warner Bros) â€" $7.56M – $2,746 PTA – $25.2M cume

4. Eastern Promises (Focus Features) â€" $6.1M â€" $4,349 PTA – $6.9M cume

5. 3:10 to Yuma (Lionsgate) – $6M – $2,252 PTA – $37.5M cume

6. NEW â€" Sydney White (Universal) – $5.59M – $2,662 PTA – $5.59M cume

7. Mr. Woodcock (New Line) â€" $5.22M – $2,344 PTA – $15.9M cume

8. The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal) – $4.21M â€" $1,615 PTA – $216.2M cume

9. Superbad (Sony) -  $2.98M – $1,024 PTA – $116M cume

10. Dragon Wars (Freestyle Releasing) – $2.4M – $1,058 PTA – $8.46M

*Across the Universe (Sony) – $1.97M – $7,172 PTA – $2.9M cume

*Transformers (Dreamworks/Paramount) – $1.39M – $3,623 PTA – $313.5M

*In the Valley of Elah (Warner Independent) – $972,000 – $3,067 PTA – $1.1M cume

*The Hunting Party (MGM/Weinstein) – $575,000 – $1,745 PTA – $767,000

EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS EARLY SATURDAY PTA ESTIMATES

1. NEW â€" Into the Wild (Paramount Vantage) – $20,947 PTA

2. NEW â€" The Assassination of Jesse James… (Warner Bros) – $11,809 PTA

3. NEW – Resident Evil: Extinction (Sony) â€" $3,057 PTA

4. Across the Universe (Universal) – $2,844 PTA

5 The Jane Austen Book Club (Sony Classics) – $2,531 PTA

6. NEW â€" Good Luck Chuck (Lionsgate) – $1,895 PTA

7. Eastern Promises (Focus Features) â€" $1,717 PTA

8. Transformers (Dreamworks/Paramount) – $1,605 PTA

9. Milarepa: Magician… (Luminous Velocity) – $1,332 PTA

10. In the Valley of Elah (Warner Independent) – $1,303 PTA

EXCLUSIVE FANTASY MOGULS REVISED 3-DAY PTA ESTIMATES

1. NEW â€" Into the Wild (Paramount Vantage) – $52,602 PTA

2. NEW â€" The Assassination of Jesse James… (Warner Bros) – $25,928 PTA

3. NEW – Resident Evil: Extinction (Sony) â€" $8,342 PTA

4. Across the Universe (Sony) – $7,172 PTA

5. NEW – The Jane Austen Book Club (Sony Classics) – $5,552 PTA

6. NEW â€" Good Luck Chuck (Lionsgate) – $5.041 PTA

7. Eastern Promises (Focus Features) â€" $4,349 PTA

8. Transformers (Dreamworks/Paramount) -  $3,623 PTA

9. NEW – Tbe Last Winter (IFC Films) $3,182 PTA

10. In the Valley of Elah (Warner Independent) – $3,067 PTA

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