Weekend Box Office: Narnia knocks out Kong in third round
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Box Office, Peter Jackson, Remakes and Sequels
After two weekends of marginal losses, those
wacky Narnia kids and their magical closet just barely edged out the Big Fake Gorilla for the top slot over New
Year's. With a margin of less than $2 million, it was a small victory, but a significant one: now in its fourth weekend,
Narnia shows no signs of slowing down, whilst Kong has yet to bang out that one major victory that Universal needs for a bona fide phenomenon.
Elsewhere, Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and Fun
with Dick and Jane are both doing surprisingly stable business, whilst Rumor
Has It... and The Ringer seem to be just about dead, and the jury's
still out on the mainstream appeal of Munich. Full top ten after the jump.1. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – $32.8 million.
2. King Kong – $31.6 million.
3. Fun With Dick and Jane – $21 million.
4. Cheaper by the Dozen 2 – $19.3 million.
5. Rumor Has It – $11.6 million.
6. The Family Stone – $10.2 million.
7. Memoirs of a Geisha – Sony, $10 million.
8. The Ringer – $8 million.
9. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – $7.5 million.
10. Munich – $6.1 million.
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1-03-2006 @ 9:39AM
Maxine said...
From a paying customer. Seen several films over xmas period in the local multiplex. Cinema empty for KK, full for Narnia (a couple of weeks after both open). Cinemas also full for HP4 still (some of my family on their fourth viewing), and even (believe it or not) full for Cheaper by the Dozen 2. Nobody where I live is choosing to see KK, and having sat through it myself, I am not surprised.
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