Sources are telling me that weekend audiences in the U.S. for Quantum were 54 percent male and 46 percent female, and the franchise skewed a bit old with 58 percent of ticket buyers over 25. The word-of-mouth will be very good for this excellent film and, for my money, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace are the two best James Bond films ever. As I wrote on Thursday, these two movies are to the Bond franchise, what Batman Begins and The Dark Knight turned out to be for the Batman franchise.

Quantum of Solace began opening in overseas territories on Oct. 31. Now, including its meteoric domestic opening, the film has banked $322 million from 73 territorie. And that's with openings still to come in lucrative territories like Japan, Australia and Spain. In my estimation, the newest Bond will easily be the biggest 007 ever. It should become the first movie in the franchise to top $200 million domestic, and $700 million worldwide would seem to be a reasonable target.

Meanwhile Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (DreamWorks/Paramount) received a hippo-sized boost from its $8.1 million Friday, more than doubling that number for a $16.9 million Saturday. After adding a projected $11.1 million Sunday, Escape 2 Africa will have a new 10-day cume of $118 million, ranking as the all-time fourth-best 10-day total for a non-summer animated film opening on a non-holiday. Amazingly, M:E2A has a better domestic total after 10 days than this summer's DreamWorks Animation smash Kung Fu Panda, which checked in with $117.2 million at the same point in its release cycle. There is no question now that Escape 2 Africa will finish as the all-time biggest grossing non-Shrek movie in the history of Dreamorks Animation, and $220 million-$225 million domestic is possible.

STUDIO 3-DAY ESTIMATES
1. NEW - Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (Dreamworks/Paramount) - $63.5M, $15,656 PTA, $63.5M cume
2. NEW - Role Models (Universal) - $19.25M, $6,895 PTA, $19.25M cume
3. High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Disney) — $9.29M, $2,683 PTA, $75.7M cume
4. Changeling (Universal) — $7.28M, $3,925 PTA, $20.6M cume
5. Zack and Miri Make a Porno (Weinstein) — $6.52M, $2,384 PTA, $20.93M cume
6. NEW - Soul Men (MGM) - $5.61M, $2,745PTA, $5.61M cume
7. Saw V (Lionsgate) — $4.2M, $1,485 PTA, $52.3M cume
8. The Haunting of Molly Hartley (Freestyle) - $3.49M, $1,355 PTA, $10.23M cume
9. The Secret Life of Bees (Fox Searchlight) — $3.12M, $2,110 PTA, $29.9M cume
10. Eagle Eye (Dreamworks/Paramount) - $2.59M, $1,844 PTA, $96.4M cume
*Rachel Getting Married (Sony Classics) - $1.68M, $4,240 PTA, $5.56M cume
*Happy-Go-Lucky (Miramax) - $439,000, $4,304 PTA, $1.28M cume
*NEW - House (Roadside Attractions) - $355,000, $978 PTA, $355,000 cume
*Synecdoche, New York (Sony Classics) - $315,000, $9,265 PTA, $697,000 cume
*NEW - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Miramax) - $255,000, $15,000 PTA, $255,000 cume
*I've Loved You So Long (Sony Classics) - $188,000, $8,545 PTA, $745,000 cume
NEW - Repo: The Genetic Opera (Lionsgate) - $51,600, $6,450 PTA, $51,600 cume

STUDIO 3-DAY ESTIMATES
1. NEW - Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (Dreamworks/Paramount) - $63.5M, $15,656 PTA, $63.5M cume
2. NEW - Role Models (Universal) - $19.25M, $6,895 PTA, $19.25M cume
3. High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Disney) — $9.29M, $2,683 PTA, $75.7M cume
4. Changeling (Universal) — $7.28M, $3,925 PTA, $20.6M cume
5. Zack and Miri Make a Porno (Weinstein) — $6.52M, $2,384 PTA, $20.93M cume
6. NEW - Soul Men (MGM) - $5.61M, $2,745PTA, $5.61M cume
7. Saw V (Lionsgate) — $4.2M, $1,485 PTA, $52.3M cume
8. The Haunting of Molly Hartley (Freestyle) - $3.49M, $1,355 PTA, $10.23M cume
9. The Secret Life of Bees (Fox Searchlight) — $3.12M, $2,110 PTA, $29.9M cume
10. Eagle Eye (Dreamworks/Paramount) - $2.59M, $1,844 PTA, $96.4M cume
*Rachel Getting Married (Sony Classics) - $1.68M, $4,240 PTA, $5.56M cume
*Happy-Go-Lucky (Miramax) - $439,000, $4,304 PTA, $1.28M cume
*NEW - House (Roadside Attractions) - $355,000, $978 PTA, $355,000 cume
*Synecdoche, New York (Sony Classics) - $315,000, $9,265 PTA, $697,000 cume
*NEW - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Miramax) - $255,000, $15,000 PTA, $255,000 cume
*I've Loved You So Long (Sony Classics) - $188,000, $8,545 PTA, $745,000 cume
NEW - Repo: The Genetic Opera (Lionsgate) - $51,600, $6,450 PTA, $51,600 cume

Halloween lands on a Friday only once every seven years, so there is not a lot of data to draw from, but trick-or-treating completely wiped out High School Musical 3 and damaged the performance of every movie on Friday. In terms of projecting the weekend, you almost need to throw the day out and treat Saturday and Sunday separately. So, HSM3 grabs $1.7 million on Friday (down 90 percent from last Friday's $16.5 million), then Saturday and Sunday come in more in line with expectations. Let's say $8 million Saturday (down 47 percent from last Saturday's $15.3 million) and $5.2 million today (down 47 percent from last Sunday's $9.7 million) for a $15M million take. That's a whole lot better than the $9.5 million that I originally projected on Friday.

Also rebounding dramatically was Zack and Miri Make a Porno (Weinstein). I predicted a $6.9 million three-day and a fourth-place finish after its soft Friday, but the Kevin Smith comedy will wrap up the weekend at No. 2, with about $10.7 million. Still, the movie will most likely not get to $30 million domestic, and competing studios tell me that Weinstein believed that this Kevin Smith-directed comedy had the chops to finish in the $80 million range.

The rest of the Top 5 will be Saw V (Lionsgate), with a possible $10.11 million, Clint Eastwood's Changeling (Universal) with a likely $9.4 million and Freestyle's The Haunting of Molly Hartley with about $6 million. Here's what I wrote Friday night about Changeling:

"I am a huge Eastwood fan, but Changeling is a big disappointment. Jolie's performance is overwrought, and I can 'see all the strings.' The usually good Jeffrey Donovan has an odd 1930s speech pattern, while Amy Ryan (an Oscar nominee for Gone Baby Gone) plays it with a present-day feel and John Malkovich is at his affected best (too much at times). It is a hard-to-watch two-and-a-half hours, and I find it dubious to suggest that this one will have much of an awards season run. The average Eastwood fan will walk out of Changeling saying, 'Bring on Gran Torino.' "

Needless to say, I am not a big fan of the movie.

One other advance signal you may have missed: Quantum of Solace (Sony) opened Friday in the United Kingdom and it shattered the all-time opening day box office record in the territory. As I wrote over the weekend:

"I think it is safe to predict a $50 million opening weekend for the Sony release with first week sales (Friday-thru-Thursday) an estimated $66 million. The second weekend for the new Bond will likely be in the $29 million-$33 million range, which would mean a drop of only 35 percent-40 percent, and Quantum may be at $135 million domestic by the Monday after Thanksgiving."

This Halloween weekend is shaping up to be a mediocre one, and a lot of films may post disappointing performances at the box office.

On its first day of expansion, Changeling was able to finish second with $2.3 million, which means it's on pace for around $7 million this weekend.

Zack and Miri Make a Porno debuted on Friday in an underwhelming third place with only $2.17 million, which means that the film will fall way below where many in the industry projected it would.

Also, HSM3 must have lost most of its audience to Halloween festivities because it finished in fifth place on Friday with only $1.7 million.