Weekend Box Office
1) Tropic Thunder $16.1 million
2) The House Bunny $15.1 million
3) Death Race $12.2 million
4) The Dark Knight $10.3 million
5) Star Wars: The Clone Wars $5.6 million
6) Pineapple Express $5.6 million
7) Mirrors $4.8 million
8) The Longshots $4.3 million
9) Mamma Mia! $4.3 million
10) The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor $4 million
The Dark Knight's firm strangle hold on this summer's box office is slowly slipping away. The hugely successful comic book adaptation drifted down into forth place with a pretty strong $10.3 million take, giving it $489 million in just six weeks of release. Its drop has made room for other films to nab that coveted top spot this week. In its second week of release, the Ben Stiller directed action comedy Tropic Thunder moved up to the number one spot with $16.1 million, relying purely on strong word of mouth and its Tom Cruise cameo. That brings its cumulative gross to $65 million. The film should see it to $100 million sometime in September.
Quite a few new films flooded the market on this late August weekend. Anna Faris' Playboy themed The House Bunny sneaked into second place, surprising a lot of naysayers with a $15.1 million take. Death Race, a slight remake on Roger Corman's cult classic of the same name minus the 2000, hit in third place with $12 million. And the Fred Durst directed The Longshots, starring Ice Cube, tumbled into 8th place with a tiny little take of $4.3 million. Fox was the biggest loser this weekend, as their highly touted comedy The Rocker didn't even manage to crack the top ten. This cool take on School of Rock, starring The Office's Rainn Wilson, hit at number 12 with a less than impressive sum of $2.7 million.
In the smaller art house market, Hamlet 2 earned just $435,000 on 105 screens. While the documentary I.O.U.S.A. took in $62,300 on as few as 18 screens. This week, it was The House Bunny that had the highest per screen average with $5,563 for each of its 2,714 screens.
Next week will mark the end of the summer movie going season, and the box office revenue will be down even further than it was this weekend. On the horizon we have Don Cheadle in Traitor, which opens on Wednesday. Then, on Friday, you have the weird mix of Vin Diesel in Babylon A.D., the spoof Disaster Movie, the teen comedy College, and the very weird Asian Western Sukiyaki Western Django directed by cult icon Takashi Miike and starring Quentin Tarantino. Which one will come out on top? If I had to make a guess, I'd say Disaster Movie is going to be our number flick of next week.
Tropic Thunder was released August 13th, 2008 and stars Jeff Kahn, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Ruivivar, Jack Black, Jay Baruchel, Brandon T. Jackson, Ben Stiller, Eric Winzenried. The film is directed by Ben Stiller.
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Shadow Of The Day
Cool.
5 years agoby @asifFlag
Phatlightning
how in the hell did Death Race only pull in 12 million? The movie was awesome, quite possibly the best action flick I have seen all year. F*ck all of the dumb ass people of the world who actually saw The House Bunny, I refused to talk to anyone who even WANTED to see it let alone the people who actually paid money to go see it... ugh this country makes me sick.
Babylon A.D. looks sick, as does Traitor, I'll be checking out both this weekend.. as far as Disaster Movie goes.. I saw the preview in theater and honestly, it looks like a bunch of 12 year olds went out with a camera and filmed that... its complete garbage.. and somehow it will make millions.. again, f*ck this country.
5 years agoby @sxers2k1Flag
RingWraither
This just proves that not many people like Statham, he's never had a good box office numbers. And I think that The Bank Job is probably his best and it sucks that its not recognized as much as his other disappointing box office collection of movies. I hope that Disaster tanks! I hope it tanks bad because these f*cking guys keep putting crap on film and people SHOULDNT be paying up for a piece of sh*t like that. (Even though there's some dumbasses who probably will.) Anyways, I expect Babylon to top the weekend with Tropic Thunder at 2nd and Disaster movie at third.
5 years agoby @ringwraitherFlag
Lone Wolf
I can't beleive "The House Bunny" actually beat "Death Race". And hope sad is it that "The Rocker" got #12 on it's first week!
5 years agoby @54729Flag
Moviemaniack1993
If Disaster Movie is # 1 next weekend I will front the money to have someone take out Seltzer and Friedberg. The fact that these two f*cking douchebags get paid millions of dollars to put nothing but absolute sh*t in theaters is sickening. I mean this movie is already spoofing EVERYTHING that was out this summer which means it was filming before these movies even came out. I will bet you this was not even greenlit until the box office returns of the Meet the Spartans in January. That quickly they threw together this hodge podge of an atrocity and the worst part is, people are dumb enough to f*cking pay for it! Well, I will surely be seeing College next weekend as the rest of America will sadly contribute more monetary gain for another spoof movie to be greenlit for a January release. I just wish it was released during September so I could warn my students away from seeing it. So sad...
5 years agoby @moviemaniack1993Flag
the Narrator
Gonna see Babylon A.D. and Traitor. Bummer The Dark Knight couldn't stay on top. But it was. Almost reaching the 500 million mark!!!
5 years agoby @narratorFlag
revolution909
the dark knight is still up there. i wonder for how much longer
5 years agoby @comida910Flag
Moviemaster75
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5 years agoby @moviemaster75Flag
CelluloidDreams
Can't wait to see Vin Diesel in "Babylon A.D."! This looks really good!
5 years agoby @2movieguysFlag
Flrep07
ahh f*ck the french!!
5 years agoby @flrep07Flag
CelluloidDreams
"The House Bunny" was #2...Guess never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups!
I saw "Death Race" (2008)and it wasn't bad! Jason Statham is the man! I give it B+!
I also saw: "OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies" AKA (OSS 117: Le Caire nid d'espions)...funny french film which was a spoof on spy films... That I would have an A+!
5 years agoby @2movieguysFlag
Flrep07
hmm.. i wonder if the writers actually got a chance and looked at how ironic the title for their next sh*tty 'spoof' movie : DISASTER movie. damn, house bunny made more than death race, and damn death race made more than TDK!!! sucks, but hey, only about 10 million more dollars and DK will reach 500 million mark!
5 years agoby @flrep07Flag
T.Clark
Traitor looks like a good movie. I may have to check that out if i get a chance. Babylon looks like a solid action, popcorn flick to end ur summer. College looks like another teen comedy...cuz it is. And disaster movie...i hope it bombs
I'm glad thunder got it again...looks like tdk's reign has come to an end, though...sad lol
5 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag
ed_wood
I didn't think Tropic Thunder would stay number one this week. Death Race was really cool and the House Bunny was ok. I hope Disaster Movie is a flop, I'm gonna check on Babylon AD and Western Django.
5 years agoby @ed-woodFlag
MovieBuff
Disaster Movie??? F*ck I hope not. I'm sick of "spoof movies". Hopefully Tropic Thunder, House Bunny, or Death Race take the top spot next week... cause all of the movies being released this coming week are bad. I'd rather have Babylon AD or Django win the top spot than Disaster Movie. F*ck... that's just gonna piss me off!
5 years agoby @moviebuff123Flag
JR
cool
5 years agoby @supbitchFlag