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Box Office Report: Gridiron Gang Rolls Over Competition
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Turns out we were in the mood for a little football this weekend, as Dwayne Johnson (aka the guy who will soon be formerly known as The Rock) and the Gridiron Gang finished first at the box office with $15 million. Pic marks the tenth number one film for Sony this year, breaking the previous record set by the same studio back in 2003.
Despite lukewarm reviews and its debuting in over a thousand less theaters, Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia snuck into the weekend's number two spot with $10.4 million. Even with an all-star cast that includes Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank, I'd expect the negative buzz to hurt the film heading into its second week. Let's see if I'm right. With not much family-friendly type stuff out in theaters, Everyone's Hero (the animated film Christopher Reeve was working on prior to his death) snatched up the third spot, bringing in roughly $6.2 million from 2,896 theaters.
With only a couple thousand dollars separating the two, The Last Kiss (in which Zach Braff stars as a guy who's dissatisfied with where his life is at) just barely beat The Covenant (whose $4.7 million marked a 46% drop off in sales from the previous week in which it finished number one), capturing roughly $4.702 million.
Full numbers after the jump.
Box Office Report: Lots of Cash For Cars
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Unlike last week, when the massive success of The Break-Up shocked almost everyone, the fact that Cars dominated this weekend's box office receipts should come as a surprise to no one. I mean, it's Pixar -- even if the reviews haven't been as uniformly glowing as those lavished upon the company's previous projects, they can nevertheless be counted on for quality, and that quality was appreciated this weekend to the tune of about $62.8 million. Despite the fact that the total is well below that earned by Pixar's recent debuts (and, indeed, not even the best bow for an animated feature this year -- that honor goes to Ice Age 2), Variety points out that the studio's films tend to hold remarkably well, and are not generally subject to the 40%-60% declines that befall many big openers in their second week. Speaking of that decline, this weekend's second place film, The Break-Up, was down almost 50% from last week, earning $20.5 million. That brings the movie's two-week domestic total to just over $74 million, a number that must make Universal very happy, seeing as how they spent just $52 million to make it. The weekend's two other major debuts, meanwhile, both opened reasonably well on a moderate number of screens. The Omen finished up in the fourth spot (just behind X3, which is now over $200 million in domestic returns) with $15.5 million from an average of about $5600/screen, while A Prairie Home Companion took in a total of $4.7 million on only 760 screens. Full numbers are after the jump.
Box Office Report: Who Doesn't Love Controversy?
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Riding gleefully on a wave of controversy-driven publicity -- not to mention the backs of zillions of eager Dan Brown-lovers -- The Da Vinci Code soared to the top of the box office the weekend, scoring the biggest open of 2006. The $77 million the film earned from 3735 screens gave it the 13th largest domestic open in history (for comparison's sake, Mission: Impossible III opened on over 4000 screens and made $47.7 million on its first weekend out) -- and that without even talking about the $120 million the movie made abroad, which was the second-biggest foreign debut ever for an American film. Who the hell needs critics, anyway?The weekend's other big debut, Over the Hedge, finished a distant second with earnings of $37.2 million, while See No Evil made a paltry $4.4 million on just over 1200 screens. Joining The Da Vinci Code and Over the Hedge in the top five were MI3, which made $11 million (pushing its three week total over $100 million), Poseidon, which continued to disappoint with only $9.2 million, and RV at $5.1 million. The full top 10 is after the jump.
Box Office Report: Not-So-Silent Hill
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Despite a lack of pre-release reviews, Silent Hill drew young male
audiences to the tune of $20.2 million this weekend, a total that earned it first place in the box office battle, just
ahead of last week's champ, Scary Movie 4. Finishing third was the second of the week's three debuts, The
Sentinel, which took in $14.6 million -- not a particularly impressive bow, but more than executives reportedly
expected. Whatever their feeling about the open, the team behind The Sentinel
can take some solace from the fact that they're not connected in any way to American Dreamz, which debuted in the eighth spot with a disappointing
$3.7 million on 1500 screens (it earned only $2460/screen, as opposed to $6903 for Silent Hill, and $5196 for The Sentinel).The top five was rounded out by a pair of animated films: Ice Age: The Meltdown made $12.8 million, bringing its four week total over $165 million (more than twice its budget), while The Wild took in $8.1 million in its second week of release. The full top 10 is after the jump.
Box Office Report: V for Victory
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V
for Vendetta roared to the top of the box office this weekend, its take of about $26 million out-earning the
nearest competition by more than $10 million. While that total - on just under 3400 screens - sounds pretty impressive,
it's believed to be below the studio's opening weekend hopes. Meanwhile She's
the Man, the week's other debut, met estimates with $11 million, which was enough to make it the fourth-highest
earner of the weekend. Finishing second was Failure
to Launch which, with a take of $15.8 million, fell 35% from last week's chart-leading totals. In third was
The
Shaggy Dog with $13.6 million, the audience for which fell only slightly after last week's open - thanks to
families with small kids, this one might have some staying power. Wrapping up the top five was The
Hills Have Eyes, which took in $8.1 million; the film's $28.8 million total after just two weeks in release is
nearly twice its budget.Full numbers are after the jump.
Box Office Report: Failure to Launch lends itself to so many clever headlines that I'm confounded by the options and can't pick one
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The box office as a whole was be up an estimated
10% from last weekend, led by a trio of new releases that filled the top spots. Easily topping the list was Failure to Launch, which
took in $24.6 million - not bad for a movie that, after having its release delayed, got mostly bad reviews from
critics. Filling the second and third spots this weekend were two remakes: Disney's The Shaggy Dog made $16 million, while The Hills Have Eyes came it at just under that number, with $15.5 million. As the AP
report points out, the fact that this weekend's three new releases are so different means they appeal to different
viewers, so they tended to take audiences from older films, rather than from one another.Filling the fourth spot was 16 Blocks which, in only its second week of release, was down to just over $7 million. Madea's Family Reunion, meanwhile, earned nearly $6 million, thus bringing its three week total to $55.8 million, or nearly 10 times its budget. Who thinks we'll be seeing another movie about the life of Miss Madea? Of the other top earning films this weekend, only Eight Below made more than $5 million - ah, the power of puppies. (The complete numbers are after the jump.)
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.
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