Box Office Report: New entries sweep top spots
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As if we needed more evidence that the entire nation
has gone insane, Steve Martin's critically-derided The
Pink Panther remake opened this weekend at the top of the box office rankings, beating out Final
Destination 3's $20 million by about $1.5 million. (Ok, confession time: did you go see Pink Panther? Could you explain why? Please?) Final Destination did, however, open on many fewer screens that Martin's film, and it actually made
almost $1000 more/screen than the comedy. Filling out the top four were the weekend's other two debuts: Curious
George, which took in $15.3 million, and old man Ford's
latest action flick, Firewall,
which made just under $14 million.The fifth spot was held down by When a Stranger Calls, which was down over 50% from its opening weekend but still managed to earn about $10 million. Landing in the sixth and seventh spots, meanwhile, were two films in their third week of release, both of which lost about 50% from last weekend's returns: the inexplicable Big Momma's House 2 made slightly less than $7 million, while Emma Thompson's Nanny McPhee took in $5.2 million. Filling out the top 10 were a pair of films well into their third month of release (Brokeback Mountain, Hoodwinked), and the rapidly-fading Underworld: Evolution. Complete numbers are after the jump.
1. The Pink Panther $21.7 million
2. Final Destination 3 $20.1
3. Curious George $15.3
4. Firewall $13.8
5. When a Stranger Calls $10.0
6. Big Momma's House $6.8
7. Nanny McPhee $5.2
8. Brokeback Mountain $4.2
9. Hoodwinked $2.5
9. Underworld: Evolution $2.5
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2-13-2006 @ 11:15AM
Kevin said...
While I didn't see Pink Panther myself, my girlfriend (who can be infinitly more movie-snobbish than I, and I'm a "Cinema Studies" minor) and her mom did, and actually really enjoyed it. Granted, she grew up on the old Peter Sellers movies, and disliked the later incarnations, but she said Steve Martin really wasn't too bad. And it was fun. And there were lots of kids there that were really getting into it, so that made it that much better.
I think the problem critics were having was that Steve Martin isn't Peter Sellers. Well, he isn't. We can't be fortunate to have that. However, Steve Martin, Jean Reno, and Kevin Kline are all funny guys in it, according to my "source," and Jean Reno even almost manages to steal the show. I personally would see it just for him.
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