Box Office Report: What? Little Man Didn't Beat POTC2?
Filed under: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Disney, Box Office, Remakes and Sequels
It's official: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is a failure. It made only $62.2 million last weekend, failing to break the second-weekend record owned by, of all things, Shrek 2. Poor, poor Disney. Ahem. Yeah, you're right -- they're probably ok over there, what with setting a new record for 10-day earnings ($258 million) and passing X-Men: The Last Stand as the year's top-grossing film and all. In addition, the film's per-screen earnings -- slightly over $15,000 -- were matched only by Gabrielle, a French film that opened on only two screens. Most of the films in the top 20 struggled to take in $5000/screen.Though POTC2 fell off by more than 50% from last week, it still easily outdistanced the weekend's two major debuts, You, Me and Dupree and Little Man, both of which opened solidly with around $21 million (Little Man was in 500 fewer theaters). Superman Returns recovered a bit from the Pirates broadside and finished the weekend in the fourth spot, with $11.6 million. In other news, The Break-Up, which is gradually being scaled back, finally left the top 10, ending the weekend with a take of under $1 million from 797 screens, good enough for fourteenth place. Full numbers are after the jump.
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, $62.2 million
2. Little Man, $21.7 million
3. You, Me and Dupree, $21.3 million
4. Superman Returns, $11.6 million
5. The Devil Wears Prada, $10.5 million
6. Cars, $7.5 million
7. Click , $7 million
8. The Lake House, $1.6 million
9. Nacho Libre, $1.5 million
10. A Scanner Darkly, $1.2 million
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7-17-2006 @ 9:41AM
tim said...
Go Keanu! 2 movies in the top 10 at the same time!! How often does that happen? And people think Depp is a movie draw right now.
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