Weekend Estimates August 24-26, 2007
1 Superbad Sony $18,000,000 -45.5% $68.6M cume
2 The Bourne Ultimatum Uni. $12,361,000 -37.8% $185M cume
3 Rush Hour 3 NL $12,250,000 -42.6% $109M cume
4 Mr. Bean’s Holiday Uni. $10,121,000 5 WAR LGF $10,000,000
6 The Nanny Diaries MGM/W $7,811,000
7 The Simpsons Movie Fox $4,400,000 -35.6% $173M cume
8 Stardust Par. $3,954,000 -30.0% $26.5M cume
9 Hairspray NL $3,450,000 $107.5M cume
10 The Invasion WB $3,140,000 -47.2% $11.5M cume
11 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix WB $2,480,000 -32.2% $283M cume
12 Underdog BV $2,243,000 -41.7% $36M cume
13 Becoming Jane Mira. $2,200,000 -25.0% $13M cume
14 I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry Uni. $2,102,000 -41.6% $114M cume
15 Resurrecting the Champ YFG $1,849,000
16 Illegal Tender Uni. $1,436,000
Weekend Wrap-Up
As the weekend pulled into a close it became clear that Superbad was super-good and that the good word of mouth and reviews had led the film to finish first at the box office for the second straight week defeating three new mediocre entries into the charts in the likes of WAR featuring the duel between Jet Li and Jason Statham which managed 5th place with $10 million for Lionsgate. Also opening was “the incomporable” Rowan Atkinson’s turn as Mr. Bean’s Holiday which opened at fourth with $10.1 million for Universal and MGM/Weinstein’s The Nanny Diaries which managed to collect the teen girl crowd with a sixth place opening and $7.8 million.
Perhaps the most impressive of the mediocre looking new entries was Mr. Bean’s Holiday as it managed to squeeze out the most per screen on only 1,714 screens showing that Universal’s targeted marketing was superior to the 2,277 screens that carried WAR or the 2,629 that featured The Nanny Diaries. More spending less is always good and Mr. Bean should have legs. After smoking a bowl or two of crack or hydroponic, he’s even funnier too.
Resurrecting the Champ’s measly $1.9 million and 15th place (on 1,605 screens) showed that the Yari outfit distributing the film are still not up to snuff even when their compelling films star Josh Hartnett and Samuel L. Jackson.
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