WEEKEND BOX OFFICE TOP TEN
June 9 - 11, 2006 | | Click on title to read CB Review | | 1. |
Cars | | $31,181,000 - Total:$114,505,000 |
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Cars holds on to take number one for a second weekend in a row, and Nacho Libre wrestles everyone else out of the way for a close second place finish in this weekend's top ten. Scott Gwin is still off frolicking with his new bride, so you're stuck with me analyzing your weekend viewing choice. My take? Good picks.
Though earlier in the weekend Cars was outperformed by both Nacho and Fast and the Furious, by Sunday parents showed up with their pizza sauce covered kids for Pixar's latest quality endeavor. Well done parents, you weren't lured in by Garfield 2.
The week's new openers fell in right behind Cars, with Nacho Libre and Fast and Furious bottlenecked in close behind it. The Lake House fell in fourth and Garfield 2 in sixth with a considerably lower take. Universal and Paramount are probably pretty happy with the performance of Furious and Nacho, but Warner Bros. and Fox are likely cringing at their new movie's under $20 million debuts.
In non-new releases, X-Men: The Last Stand continues its massive box office plummet. Just four weeks ago it opened as the biggest movie on the planet, but it's now in seventh place and headed for an earlier than expected exit from the top ten. I doubt Ratner and his people are worried, it's already made enough money to justify its existence in the eyes of greedy studio executives. They squeezed the money they wanted out of the franchise, and now it can drop dead for all they care. Dead is exactly where it's headed.
Outside the usual top ten, A Prairie Home Companion hung in there to capture eleventh place. It's still in under 1000 theaters, so a $2.6 million second week performance isn't too disappointing. The weekend's highest per-screen-average was scored by the indie movie Wordplay, the story of a crossword puzzle guru. Of course it's easy to make $17,000 per-screen when your film is only playing in two theaters.
Next week, Scott Gwin returns from his first week of marital bliss and Adam Sandler fast forwards the universe via a remote control purchased from the Beyond section of Bed Bath and Beyond. I was in that store this weekend, and though I spent a fair amount of time digging around in some of their towel racks, I found no sign of a Beyond department. Plenty of Bed and Bath though, as the lowered levels of my checking account can attest. I'll keep looking and get back to you.
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