Click Controls the Box Office

Channel surfers tuned into Sony's Click this weekend in large numbers as the Adam Sandler starrer from Revolution Studios posted a boxoffice rating and share worth an estimated $40 million on its debut in 3,749 theaters and captured the top spot, according toThe Hollywood Reporter. The PG-13 comedy, helmed by Frank Coraci, brought in the eighth No. 1 opening for Sandler and the seventh No. 1 opening for Sony in the year-to-date.

The tally for Click was the fourth-highest among Sandler's previous debuts, and it was his fifth film to open to $40 million or more. His most recent release was Paramount's The Longest Yard, which opened during the four-day Memorial Day holiday in 2005, tackling $47.6 million in the first three days and $58.6 million for the four days.

Buena Vista's Cars notched an estimated $22.5 million on its third lap at the boxoffice, falling off a modest 33% from a week earlier, which indicates some legs have kicked in under the animated comedy. The G-rated Pixar film, directed by John Lasseter and featuring the voices of Owen Wilson and Paul Newman, has cleared an estimated $155.9 million to date.

Defying intensified World Cup distractions and toasty weather in Europe, Warner Bros. International's Poseidon scored a surprise goal this weekend by edging out two powerful rivals -- X-Men: The Last Stand and The Da Vinci Code -- to claim the No. 1 spot internationally. Wolfgang Petersen's remake of 1972's disaster classic The Poseidon Adventure captured an estimated weekend boxoffice of $9.9 million from about 4,000 screens in 49 countries. Its international gross to date is $84.7 million. Poseidon finished No. 1 in Russia ($2.6 million from 371 screens), Brazil and Turkey and is expected to finish on top in Belgium. It also elicited solid holdover action in France ($1 million from 583 screens), placed No. 1 in Argentina and Peru and finished No. 2 in Chile.

Click was released June 23rd, 2006 and stars Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, David Hasselhoff, Henry Winkler, Julie Kavner, Sean Astin, Joseph Castanon. The film is directed by Frank Coraci.


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