Weekend Box Office - Audiences Escape 2 Africa

By Scott Gwin: 2008-11-09 23:42:33

The arrival of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa seems to have hailed the beginning of the holiday hits season, bringing in the first $50+ million opening weekend since summer called it quits. From here on out expect to see an upswing in audience attention with a new major release just about every weekend from now until Christmas.

Dreakworks seems to have pretty good luck with their computer animated sequels. This weekend the follow-up to Madagascar banked $63 million, handily topping the $47 million that the first film took in on its debut. That's not quite as powerful as the Shrek films which jumped from a $42 million opening for Shrek to a whopping $108 million for Shrek 2. I blame it on the characters. For all those cute fuzzy jungle animals the Madagascar films have nothing to compare with Puss-n-Boots.

Role Models took a distant second place with $19 million. That's almost as much as Zack and Miri made in its first ten days. Sure, the comedy for both movies is tasteless and juvenile, both easily earn their R ratings, and both starred Elizabeth Banks. So what made one more financially successful than the other? Let's just say that I suspect audiences are more interested in a raunch comedy starring cute kids than one threatening full frontal Seth Rogen. Can't say as I blame them.

Bernie Mac's posthumous release Soul Men struggled in its debut weekend, making only $5 million and coming in at sixth place in the top ten. That's one of the lowest openings for a movie headlined by Mac, and a poor send off for one of the funnier stand-up-comedians-turned-actors to grace the screen. America, you ought to be ashamed.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa *

$63,500,000 - Total: $63,500,000

LW: N WR: 1
THTRS: 4056

Role Models *

$19,251,000 - Total: $19,251,000

LW: N WR: 1
THTRS: 2792

High School Musical 3: Senior Year

$9,293,000 - Total: $75,707,000

LW: 1 WR: 3
THTRS: 3464

Changeling

$7,281,000 - Total: $20,587,000

LW: 4 WR: 3
THTRS: 1855

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

$6,521,000 - Total: $20,933,000

LW: 2 WR: 2
THTRS: 2735

Soul Men *

$5,610,000 - Total: $5,610,000

LW: N WR: 1
THTRS: 2044

Saw V

$4,200,000 - Total: $52,320,000

LW: 3 WR: 3
THTRS: 2829

The Haunting of Molly Hartley

$3,490,000 - Total: $10,235,000

LW: 5 WR: 2
THTRS: 2576

The Secret Life of Bees

$3,125,000 - Total: $29,938,000

LW: 7 WR: 4
THTRS: 1481

10.

Eagle Eye

$2,594,000 - Total: $96,401,000

LW: 9 WR: 7
THTRS: 1407

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Jonathan
November 10, 2008 at 14:02

Don't be down about Bernie's Soul Men not doing so well. He did an outstanding job as the voice of the King of the Jungle in Madagascar Escape 2 Africa. That does make for a nice send-off for him.

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