Saturday, December 15, 2007
The Weekend Box Office
Mr. Will Smith, to nobody's surprise, is off to a roaring start with I Am Legend. 29ドル.5 million out of the Friday blocks. And no doubt Warner Bros. is jubilant ...
In the meantime, the semi-animated Alvin and the Chipmunks collects 13ドル.3 million has it hacks its way through a forest of not-great reviews, making Rupert Murdoch one happy mogul.
The fourth place Enchanted closes in on 90ドル million as Golden Compass collects 2ドル.6 million for a 34ドル.6 million total.
Beowulf drops to #13, now standing with a total cume of 78ドル.3 million.
Update: Will Smith flexes his considerable box office muscle and pulls in 76ドル.5 million.
No surprise there.
But what is a surprise -- at least to me -- is that Alvin and the Chipmunks shakes off sucky reviews and collects 45ドル million. Cripes, those gimmicky 45 rpms I enjoyed when I was like, ten, must really have staying power.
Who knew Alvin and Co. were such freaking national icons? (Or maybe it's just the ongoing power of animation ...)
Elsewhere on Your B.O. Hit Parade, The Golden Compass drops 65%, collects 9ドル million, and now stands at 41ドル million. (And whether a sequel gets green-lighted is anybody's guess. I'm not holding my breath.)
Enchanted declines 44% and rakes in 6ドル million. 92ドル.3 is now the total. Kevin Lima's baby will crack 100ドル million during Christmas vacation.
Beowulf, now at the twelfth spot, takes a 70% drop and now has 79ドル.2 million in the till (it's doing better overseas.)
And Bee Movie declines 70% and limps back to the hive with 122ドル.4 million in the sixteenth position.
3 comments:
I just Saw "Alvin"...Congrats to all. Chris Bailey did a great job with the "munks"! Pretty fun flick, a lot of kids and teens really seemed to enjoy the film. Cheers, D
Somebody certainly liked the flick. It had an outstanding opening weekend.
In a previous post I made a snarky remark about "Alvin & Co." - my sincere apologies. I'd have never in a gah-bah-zillion years expected it to do north of 40 million - whodathunkit?
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