Weekend Box Office
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After beating expectations (and last year's grosses) for four consecutive weekends, overall box office returns were generally disappointing this weekend, as old films slipped and new ones failed to make much of an impact. Though it kept a firm grip on the number one slot, Flightplan slipped 30 percent from last weekend, to gross just $15 million in this frame. It was still enough to hold off all comers new and old. Second place went to Joss Whedon's Serenity, which earned a $10.1 million on about 2,200 screens, and Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride slipped to third place with $9.8 million, Meanwhile, David Cronenberg's A History of Violence expanded to 1,300 screens and shot up to the number four spot with $8.2 million, easily beating newcomers such as Into the Blue (5th place with $7 million) and The Greatest Game Ever Played (9th place, $3.75 million). More numbers after the jump.1. Flightplan - $15 million.
2. Serenity - $10.1 million.
3. Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - $9.8 million.
4. A History of Violence - $8.2 million.
5. Into the Blue - $7 million.
6. Just Like Heaven - $6.1 million.
7. The Exorcism of Emily Rose - $4.4 million.
8. Roll Bounce - $4 million.
9. The Greatest Game Ever Played - $3.75 million.
10. The 40-Year-Old Virgin - $3.1 million.
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10-02-2005 @ 5:39PM
Kevin said...
OK, so I'm bummed that Serenity didn't win the weekend but it is no shock to me. The movie is great (my wife and I saw it on Friday). But in our local theaters, it is only showing 4 times a day. Flighplan is showing 10. No wonder it didn't win. Kind of reminds me of the X-Files movie that was only shown in 1 theater (and a crappy one to boot) in town. We live in Dayton, OH so we're not exactly a tiny market.
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10-02-2005 @ 11:09PM
Bruce Wayne-Johnson said...
I'm surprised that INTO THE BLUE wasnt #1...I mean Jessica Alba in a bikini...huh??? IT worked for Jessica Simpson and I can only imagine that ITB was better than DoH...
AMAZING That Serinity was #2 - that is fantastic! Come on - it was a cancelled TV show - that it beat Jessica Alba's blue bikini is already amazing as I thought for sure it would be the other way around.
I guess all that complaining by flight crews about FLIGHTPLAN actually helped it...
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10-02-2005 @ 11:57PM
Scott said...
Serenity had fewer theaters with a higher per screen average. One wonders if it was put on the same footing as Flight Plan if it would have done as well -- if not better. Look at the numbers:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/
Maybe it has a chance to be a 'sleeper' hit.
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10-03-2005 @ 7:01AM
susan said...
What bothers me most about Hollywood's domination is that the 'free market' of moviedom is non-existant. In how many theaters did "Voices of Iraq" receive showing? Five. Only five theaters in America, for only three weeks without any marketing at all. Yet, anything by Michael Moore or Oliver Stone receives all the marketing and movie theaters Hollywood has has to offer. A piece of eye-candy crap like Flight Plan takes up all the space yet Hollywood pretends it is a place of free and creative expression. Maybe for useful idiots because this is all that is Left is Hollywood.
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