Weekend Box Office
1)
Max Payne $18 million
2)
Beverly Hills Chihuahua $11.2 million
3)
The Secret Life of Bees $11 million
4)
W. $10.5 million
5)
Eagle Eye $7 million
6)
Body of Lies $6.8 million
7)
Quarantine $6.3 million
8)
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist $3.9 million
9)
Sex Drive $3.5 million
10)
Nights in Rodanthe $2.6 million
With so many films hitting the marketplace this weekend, a true box office winner was anybody's guess. Well, it looks like the gamers triumphed as they came out in small droves to support the Mark Walberg shoot-em-up
Max Payne. This exciting video game adaptation, which was directed by John Moore, racked up $18 million for first place.
In a surprising turn of events, it was Disney's
Beverly Hills Chihuahua that picked up the slack in second place. The talking pooch picture managed to outpace several other high profile projects this weekend, nabbing another $11 million in its third week at bat. That brings its cumulative tally to $69 million. With this kind of staying power, it should top out at $100 million easily by mid-November.
The third and forth place spots belonged to two other newcomers this week. Queen Latifah and Dakota Fanning brought their latest drama
The Secret Life of Bees in with $11 million for the bronze. And Oliver Stone's seemingly anticipated biopic
W. underperformed in fourth with a less than triumphant $10.5 million. George
W. Bush is probably grinning about the whole thing right now.
Sex Drive, this week's only other major release, didn't quite attract the teens it was hoping for. Despite it being one of the funniest films of the year, it quickly flopped itself into the number nine position with a mere $3.5 million. Just barely enough to beat out the weepy romance
Nights in Rodanthe, which has become a modest hit with a cumulative gross of $36 million after 4 weeks in release.
Next week continues to be a guessing game for box office pundits across the country. A plethora of films are being released, and all of them will attract a slightly different audience. First up, we have the horror workhorse
Saw V, but will Jigsaw be any match against the kids of
High School Musical 3: Senior Year? And then there is Clint Eastwood's heavy drama
The Changeling, along with Collin Farrell ironing babies in
Pride and Glory. Who will be the true winner? I guess you'll just have to wait and find out.
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I love how Eagle Eye is still doing pretty great!
STILL WANT MORE NEWS ON THAT!
I've also been playing mass effect recently...i honestly don't see what the fuss is about. There's points in the game that make me think "wow, this is really something" but then there's others where i want to slit my wrists. The gameplay at times is excrutiating and there's technical errors like pausing in the middle of combat to load or save or some shit. Some aspects are really quite annoying, but the graphics and unique quality of it and character customization keep it alive, and i think that's the only thing that got it hyped up. I only bring it up because while I don't think it's as great as the hype(i'd give it prob. an 8.7 at this point, but I haven't finished it; I have to beat a big krogan toad-lookin dude after saving dr. t'soni on the artemis tau cluster and it's fucking hard), I think it would make an AWESOME film, no doubt. The character development, story, and action are all film worthy. I suggest zack snyder to direct it if it gets made(and it will). I know i suggest him a lot, but come on, his style is perfect for it..that is, if he's into doing a sci-fi flick, but i don't think he'd have a problem with it
Silent Hill was laughable, btw ^_^
"YOUR...FAITH...BRINGS...DEATH!"
LOL couldn't stop laughing! In fact, I still am!
quality means nothing.
its profitability that makes a movie worth while, duh.
jeez people like you who think that a movie should be GOOD, egad you make me sick.
good movies are for losers.
movies that make money because they appeal to the masses with fluffy bunny bullshit, now thats what movies are all about.
I have two cities close by my town. In one of the cities, the theater is strict, but it's nicer and bigger. But in the other, they let me into r-rated films w/o even asking for i.d. or anything, so i go there for they r-rated ones
"The Changeling" & "Pride and Glory"!!
I'm not 12, so I have no interest in "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" & I'm burnt out on "Saw"!!!
anyways saw V is surely going to wrip the # 1 next week, but please americans, DON"T GO WATCH HIGH SCHOOL FUCKIN MUSCIAL 3. it is stupid I asure you, SRRY disney, but come on, this is more than stupid. saw is gonna be incredible, so let it get the number one, not only cause he diserves it, but becasue it is a series that shouldn't be beat up by a fuckin kids show like hsm 3
Mark Wahlberg redeemed himself from his last crappy film "The Happening" (2008)!!!
MY FINAL RATING: B+!!
say hi to your mother for me, okay?