Nikki: Wkd Prediction: Madea Will Bully Owen

Fox’s holdover Horton Hears A Who! should hang on for No. 1 because it’s Easter weekend: expect between $24M-$30M million from 3,961 theaters and the toon to be down only 30% from its huge opening Friday-through-Sunday. Even though Paramount’s Drillbit Taylor is playing in 1,000 more venues, it’s still going to trail badly behind Lionsgate’s Meet The Browns from writer/director/actor Tyler Perry. Paramount doesn’t expect its Drillbit Taylor to do much beyond low teens in 3,056 dates, and my box office gurus agree the weekend box office should range from $11M to $14M. Sure, the $30 million movie bears the Judd Apatow-Seth Rogen imprimatur, but as one analyst told me, “you’ve seen this plot a million times.”

Via Nikki