WEEKEND BOX OFFICE TOP TEN
September 22 - 24, 2006 |
LW = Last Week WR = Weeks Released
THTRS = Number of Screens
* Denotes new release.
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| 3. | Gridiron Gang | | $9,700,000 - Total: $27,201,000 | | LW: 1 WR: 2 THTRS: 3510 |
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| 4. | Flyboys * | | $6,012,000 - Total: $6,012,000 | | LW: N WR: 1 THTRS: 2033 |
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| 8. | The Covenant | | $3,300,000 - Total: $20,305,000 | | LW: 4 WR: 3 THTRS: 2678 |
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I wish I could say I was surprised. I expected the moronic Jackass: Number Two to be the number one movie in the nation this weekend. Unfortunately, it somehow managed to go one step further. The original Jackass also opened at number one but only took in $22 million. Its successor made over $28 million, proving that America may not only be dumb, it may be gettin dumber.
Apart from Jackass' smash success it was another lackluster weekend at the box office. The number two film was a far cry behind the bad boys of stupidity. Jet Li's Fearless only made $10 million. Flyboys crashed and burned into fourth place with only $6 million and the star studded All The King's Men tanked out into seventh with $3.8 million.
While Jackass: Number Two banked $9,187 per theater, the big winner in that department was the fantasy drama The Science of Sleep. Only showing in 14 venues, it took in an impressive $24,785 per screen. The little known and bizarrely stylized animated foreign flick Renaissance also opened for the first time on American soil. It only brought in $10,400 total on two screens.
Next weekend will be a major push on the part of studios to draw in the box office bucks. Three movies will be opening in over 3,000 theaters each, a huge triple release. Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner's Coast Guard drama The Guardian and Billy Bob Thorton and John Heder's comedy School for Scoundrels will each see 3,000 screens while the CG animated Open Season will open at 3,600. This is a tough time of the year for a major push and it's likely all three will fall a bit flat. While the one with cute fuzzy animals seems a likely winner, look for the Kutcher / Costner combo to be on top of the heap. Here's hoping at least one of them does well enough to unseat the jackasses.
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