If anyone has one of those remote controls from Adam Sandler's Click please let me know. I'd like to go back and relive the last three weeks. While my new bride and I had a wonderful time at our wedding and on the honeymoon, I also really enjoyed reading Rafe complain his way through two weekend box office round ups [JOSH'S NOTE: Hey, one of those was my complaining. I can't even get credit for my whining.][SCOTT'S REPLY: Double thanks to my double whiny editor for covering one of those weeks too then.] My thanks go to him for doing a fine job in my newlywed absence and to all the Cinema Blend staff for their well wishes.
For a while there I was really beginning to believe that Adam Sandler had begun to turn his life around and pursue a career that would one day earn him recognition as a talented actor. Between Punch Drunk Love and Spanglish Sandler has proven he's capable of greater things than his tag along buddy Rob Schneider. He managed to avoid a complete breakdown into pre-pubescent comedy with this weekend's Click but it failed to impress critics. You can't keep the Sandler fans away though. Perhaps it was Adam's charisma, or maybe the fun of seeing Christoper Walken in Einstein hair, but the movie still earned an impressive $40 million at the box office.
The film also kicked Cars out of the first place. The Pixar animated feature had enjoyed a two week stint at the top and still remained strong this weekend with $22 million. Waist Deep, barely nosed out Tokyo Drift for fourth place, but made a strong showing given its limited release. The crime thriller earned $9,400 in each of its 1000 theaters, second only to the $10,669 per theater brought in by Click.
Next weekend one of the meanest, most conniving, ruthless and cynical characters ever conceived arrives in theaters. That's right folks! Miranda Priestly, as played by Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada, comes to haunt theaters next weekend. Of course, she'll go head to head with another of fiction's greatest villains: Lex Luthor. Superman Returns goes up against The Devil Wears Prada next weekend and even though Prada is just barely outgunning the comic hero in the eyes of critics (according to Rotten Tomatoes) there's not doubt who's going to win that little competition where money is concerned. The real question is just how well the Man of Steel will do at the box office.
By Cinema Blend's own Joshua Tyler's accounting Superman Returns is the best movie he's seen this year, but does it have what it's going to need to be the best money maker of the year on opening weekend? The movie to beat is the film Singer abandoned, X-Men: The Last Stand. Given Singer's betrayal and X-Men's unexpected success, this is going to be a grudge match of epic proportions. Warner Brothers is releasing Superman on Wednesday, giving it a small edge, but it's going to have to earn over $103 million between Friday and Sunday to take top honors away from the mutant army. My gut says it's not going to happen, but the Man of Steel may be able to leap this tall building after all.
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