One more weekend, one more gathering of box office bucks...
To start off the festivities, Jacki Chan high-kicks The Bourne Ultimatum out of its #1 position, as Rush Hour 3 collects $19.1 million on its opening Friday.
The Matt Damon flick BU settled into the place position, gathering a still hefty $102 million and $109 million total.
And the Family Simpson drops to third, sweeping up $3.6 million as it closes on the $150 million domestic take marker.
Meanwhile, that other animated high-stepper still in the markeptlace? Pixar's Ratatouille descends to #13, rolling up $720,000. It now stands at a $191,762,000 domestic take. That's within striking distance of the magic $200 million, and our bet is that it hops past that marker in relatively short order. With two-page VARIETY ad to quickly follow.
Update:
For the weekend, Rush Hour 3 garners bragging rights to #1 and a $50,237,000 opening weekend (demonstrating how another beloved tent-pole is critic proof).Bourne Ultimatum drops by half and collects $33,672,000, with a $132,345,000 total.
The Yellow Family grows greener with $11,125,000 in the third spot, running a total of $152,237,000.
Ratatouille (#13) now stands at $193,369,000 for its domestic gross. (It's rolling out slowly overseas, territory by territory, which we'll detail elsewhere.)
Finally, the other two newbies in the top ten didn't fare nearly as well as Mr. Chan and Mr. Tucker. Stardust landed at #4 and a $9 million gross. Daddy Day Camp, the sequel to Daddy Day Care, falls to earth at #10 and a $3.5 million cume. Apparently Mr. E. Murphy is missed.
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Rat "Hops past $200 million"...were we not hoping to fly by a much larger number? Has the bar dropped that low? ...at least from Pixar.
If they can't pass that magic 200 number than they've REALLY embarrassed themselves instead of only kind of embarrassed themselves if they do.
They'll move past it...
Pixar will embarrass themselves if they ever make a bad movie. why should they be embarrassed of the best reviewed movie of the year? The studios will be rolling out terrible 4-quels, audiences will get tired, and Pixar will be the only studio around that prioritizes original stories.
HOW much has Simpsons dropped off this weekend? It was more than 65% after the first, wasn't it?
I wonder what the total domestic is expected to be as of today? Steve?
I wonder what the total domestic is expected to be as of today? Steve?
The Yellow Family dropped 65% the first week, 56% the second week. So the flick was front-loaded.
I'm guessing it ends up somewere around $170 million domestic. Fox anticipates $300 million from overseas.
So everybody who's already gotten rich from Homer et famille will now get a lot richer.
Dropoffs of 65% and 56%? Where are all the people who were crowing about "a triumph for 2d animation" three weeks ago? It's gotten awfully quiet around here.
Those are BIG dropoffs by any reckoning. It is a success overseas and certainly will make money but this can't be the MEGA blockbuster they would have liked at Fox. The front-loading, opening in an insane number of theatres, with a huge weekend BO, worked but the dropf offs mean that people are not running back to the theater to see it again and again.
whatever!
Simpsons was by far funnier and more entertaining than Rattatoohide....
r.
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