SATURDAY NIGHT: Doug Liman's Jumper (Fox) received a nice 27 percent Saturday surge, adding just over $11 million for a new three-day cume of $26.37 million. With a projected $8 million or so on Sunday and another $4.19 million on President's Day, the tepidly-reviewed Hayden Christensen sci-fi action movie will finish with a five-day of $38.63 million — more than enough to win the competitive frame.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Rob Reiner'€™s The Bucket List (Warner Bros.) appears to have narrowly edged Sony'€™s First Sunday for a second day, although it'€™s a photo finish for Saturday. I'€™m estimating $8.12 million for the oldster road movie versus $7.87 million for the Ice Cube/Tracey Morgan comedy. Both films will likely come in above the three-day targets I set for them on Friday night.

SATURDAY NIGHT: The weekend after Thanksgiving is always one of the more sluggish three-day periods of the calendar year, and 2007 is no exception. Disney's Enchanted got a solid 51 percent Saturday bounce, but, even so, it will only manage a weekend take of about $17.1 million. Since opening on the Wednesday prior to "turkey day," the family film featuring likely Oscar nominee Amy Adams has grabbed an estimated $65 million-plus, but the new numbers are still a 50 percent drop from opening weekend. In the final analysis, Enchanted suffered virtually the same decline that struck Happy Feet on the same weekend last year, so Disney is probably quite satisfied. Their animation-live action mix should have great "legs" during the lucrative holiday moviegoing period, and awards buzz can only help to broaden the film's audience.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Amy Adams was nominated for a 2005 Academy Award for the funny, tiny little comedy Junebug, and then matched Will Ferrell joke for joke in her supporting turn in Talladega Nights last summer. Now, she's at the top of the box office and almost certainly headed for at least a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical. Disney's Enchanted, featuring Adams as a "princess out-of-water," will wrap up the five-day weekend with an estimated $53.14 million. giving it the No. 2 Thanksgiving opening of all time.

SUNDAY MORNING: Normally, I would have written a huge analysis piece last night, but, I only managed to get numbers posted. As of this morning, Box Office Mojo is reporting some Saturday and weekend numbers that are lower than my projections, and it's possible that they're right ... but it's also possible that Dreamworks/Paramount is involved in a bit of gamesmanship.

SATURDAY NIGHT: As I first reported Friday night, Bee Movie (Dreamworks) will win the Veteran's Day weekend at the box office, switching places with last weekend's winner, American Gangster (Universal). Jerry Seinfeld's "pet project" swooped in for $11.67 million on Saturday and, with about half of America's school-age kids off on Monday, Sunday will Bee stronger than usual. I've penciled in an estimated 26 percent drop, which will have Movie at $26.58 million for its second weekend.

When Tom Cruise showed up on MTV's TRL on Monday, it was the marketing equivalent of a Hail Mary. The fact is that Lions for Lambs, the first movie produced by Cruise and Paula Wagner under the previously-dormant United Artist banner, is tracking poorly, especially with the Under 25 crowd. In fact, the more that Under 25's hear about the movie, the less interested they become.

SATURDAY NIGHT: It appears that American Gangster (Universal) is the weekend movie with the most "sting." The searing epic, from director Ridley Scott and starring Oscar winners Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington, got a nice 12 percent bump from its opening day for a second day haul of $17.69 million. I'm plugging in a Sunday drop of 23 percent, which would translate to a spectacular weekend of $46.41 million.

October was a disastrous month for the movie business. Only Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? (Lionsgate) and last weekend's Saw IV (Lionsgate) enjoyed opening weekends of $20 million-plus, and, if it weren't for The Game Plan (Disney), which opened in September but did steady business all month, it would have been even worse.

Paramount's Beowulf has popped onto the film industry tracking with some very impressive numbers. Based on the epic poem read by many a high school student, this Robert Zemeckis-directed adaptation is set for release on Nov. 16, and with a huge IMAX push along with over 700 traditional  locations offering Digital 3D, this action/fantasy should generate a fantastic opening.