Hide & Seek makes the biggest debut this weekend, opening in an impressive 3,005 theaters. Whether that's enough to secure top spot depends largely on the performance of The Aviator. The Oscar front-runner expands into 2,503 theaters, and should get a nice bounce from its nominations earlier this week.

Rank	Movie	Theaters	Change	Weeks in Release	Distributor
1	Racing Stripes	3,185	n/c	3	Warner Bros
2	Meet the Fockers	3,015	-419	6	Universal
3	Hide & Seek	3,005	New	1	Fox
4	Are We There Yet?	2,710	+1	2	Sony
5	Coach Carter	2,574	+22	3	Paramount
6	Aviator, The	2,503	+242	7	Miramax
7	Assault On Precinct 13	2,297	n/c	2	Focus
8	Alone in the Dark	2,124	New	1	Lions Gate
9	White Noise	2,115	-125	4	Universal
10	Million Dollar Baby	2,010	+1,863	7	Warner Bros
36	Aliens of the Deep	27	New	1	Buena Vista
42	Fascination	10	New	1	MGM/UA
44	Fear X	2	New	1	Silver Nitrate
46	Lost Embrace (El Abrazo Partido)	1	New	1	New Yorker

Estimated Theater Counts for Next Week's Openers

Movie	Theaters	Distributor
Boogeyman	2,600	Sony
Wedding Date, The	1,500	Universal
Swimming Upstream	15	MGM
Sons of Provo	6	Halestone
Rory O'Shea Was Here	3	Focus
Nomi Song, The	2	Palm
Nobody Knows	2	IFC Films
Assisted Living	1	Economic Project
Daybreak	1	Newmarket

See the full theater count chart

Date posted: 2005-01-27