The box office was hit by a double whammy over the weekend. Not entirely did it have to suffer through the usual lackluster attendance over the Labor Day holiday -- the only major holiday of the year when attendance traditionally falls -- but it also was hit by the onset Hurricane Gustav. Along a wide unfold of the Gulf Coast, movie-theater owners shut down. Those wHO did non watched many of their patrons empty their neighborhoods and select up pad in inland emergency shelters; they would not have been in the mood for a night at the movies. Of five new films entering the box-office chafe, not one earned $10 million or more. The only photographic film that did was the action-film charade Tropic Thunder with an estimated $11.5 zillion, which put it in first place for the third straight weekend. It has immediately taken in $83.8 million -- but the $90-million picture show is a long way from break even subsequently payments to theater owners and the cost of distribution and marketing are taken into account. Babylon A.D. came in endorsement with an unimpressive $9.7 1000000. (By contrast, the latest Halloween continuation opened a year agone with $26.4 zillion.) The Dark Knight stirred back to third lieu, taking in $8.8 million and bringing its total to $502.4 million. It is only the second film in history to climb past the $500-million mark and now takes aim at the other one that did -- Titanic , which wound up with a domestic total of $601 million. Few analysts if any, believe that Knight will be able to sink Titanic 's record book. Warner Bros. distribution honcho Dan Feldman said Sunday that he expects the film to finish with about $530-550 million.
The top ten-spot films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Media by Numbers 1. Tropic Thunder , $11.5 million; 2. Babylon A.D. , $9.7 million; 3. The Dark Knight , $8.8 one thousand thousand; 4. The House Bunny, $8.3 million; 5. Traitor, $7.9 trillion; 6. Death Race, $6.2 meg; 7. Disaster Movie, $6.2 one thousand thousand; 8. Mamma Mia, $4.4 jillion; 9. Pineapple Express, $3.5 gazillion; 10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona, $3 million.
01/09/2008
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