Weekend Box Office May 13th-15th
 

Friday Box Office Results

1) MONSTER-IN-LAW
3,424
$7,900,000
-- / $2,307
$7,900,000 / 1

2) KICKING AND SCREAMING
3,455
$6,150,000
-- / $1,780
$6,150,000 / 1

3) UNLEASHED
1,955
$3,700,000
-- / $1,893
$3,700,000 / 1

4) KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
3,219
$2,740,000
112.3% / $851
$28,212,000 / 8

5) HOUSE OF WAX
3,111
$2,150,000
185.8% / $691
$17,533,000 / 8

6) CRASH
1,876
$2,020,000
131.9% / $1,077
$14,613,000 / 8

7) THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
2,770
$1,385,000
114.1% / $500
$39,852,000 / 15

8) THE INTERPRETER
2,602
$1,280,000
133.6% / $492
$57,849,000 / 22

9) MINDHUNTERS
1,040
$675,000
-- / $649
$675,000 / 1

10) XXX: STATE OF THE UNION
2,387
$640,000
98.9% / $268
$22,846,000 / 15

Darn, was hoping Unleashed would do better, but i guess considering the small opening it wasn't too shabby.

Unleashed is #3? Oh that sucks...and Will got beat by J.Lo and Fonda...good god man, has the american public gone wacky!

Gosh, it's starting to look like Hitchhikers will barely make $50 million. Guess that rules out the sequels unless it's huge on DVD...

It boggles the mind that more people are going to Monster-In-Law than Kicking & Screaming. Not that Kicking & Screaming is great - but it's at least watchable. I'm guessing there must have been a percentage of movie goers that wanted to see Jane Fonda in a film again - that's about the only explanation I can come up with.

Look at the review thread for Kicking and Screaming. One post. Seemed like people were meh about it. I think Will lost some fans with Anchorman... and this film isn't going to bring 'em back. It'll be interesting to see how well Bewitched does. He has so many projects coming up, maybe he's spreading himself too thin.

But by looking at the top 10, this movie is the only one that qualifies as a "date" movie. Maybe people are still not sick and tired of Jlo just yet.

Based on the ads and trailers, Kicking & Screaming looks like a family film and the disinterest might be that they want to see Ferrell in more "adult" roles like Old School.

Yikes.

$24 for Monster

$20 for Kicking

$10 for Unleashed.

Poor Li.

Well Li's film was barely in half the theaters that the other two films were in. It's per screen average is right up there with the rest of them.

Exactly. Those are three great grosses for a mid-May weekend.

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Unleashed was one of the best times I've had at the movies in ages and the best thing Luc Besson has been involved with since Leon. At my showing people actually broke out in applause twice(once during the scene in the bathroom with the bald albino and at the end credits). J-Ho and Jane Traitor can go to hell

1) -N- Monster-in-Law - NL
$24,025,000 - 3,424 +2,508 $7,016 $24,025,000 $43 / - 1

2) -N- Kicking and Screaming - Uni.
$20,851,000 - 3,455 - $6,035 $20,851,000 $45 / - 1

3) -N- Unleashed - Focus
$10,587,000 - 1,957 - $5,409 $10,587,000 $45 / - 1

4) -1- Kingdom of Heaven - Fox
$9,625,000 -51.0% 3,219 +3 $2,990 $35,097,000 $130 / - 2

5) -4- Crash - Lions
$7,200,000 -20.9% 1,876 +12 $3,837 $19,793,000 - / - 2

6) -2- House of Wax - WB
$6,270,000 -48.1% 3,111 - $2,015 $21,653,000 $40 / - 2

7) -3- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - BV
$4,788,000 -51.1% 2,770 -363 $1,728 $43,255,000 $50 / - 3

8) -5- The Interpreter - Uni.
$4,384,000 -44.0% 2,602 -212 $1,684 $60,954,000 $80 / - 4

9) -6- XXX: State of the Union - SonR
$2,200,000 -60.1% 2,387 -1,093 $921 $24,406,000 - / - 3

10) -N- Mindhunters - Dim.
$2,003,000 - 1,040 - $1,925 $2,003,000 - / - 1

I really don't think Li and company were expecting to be out-averaged by about $1,500 by the new Jane Fonda film.

Why was Unleashed in so few theaters? I saw plenty of advertising for it. It seems like it would be a bigger release.

I saw both "Monster-in-Law" and "Unleashed" this weekend. Yes, I went solely to see Jane Fonda, who has been sorely missed onscreen. "Unleashed" was my first Jet Li film. On the other hand, I've never seen a Will Ferrell "starring" film and have no desire whatsoever to see one. (Though I did see him in "Melinda and Melinda".) I just can't believe what they seem to have done with "Bewitched".

I think the reasoning for the low theater count is because technically its an indie movie. Rouge films (as well as focus features) are the independent companies of Universal.

Well the totals really didn't suprise me. The studios wasted a prime weekend with releasing crap. Oh well.

<b>Million Dollar Baby</b> broke the $100mil mark.

I'm sorry but what does that have to do with this thread?

Perhaps since it broke the $100m (a milestone) this weekend at the box office, he felt it appropriate to be in a thread about this weekends box office. Glad it showed some legs.

Nice to see Crash go down such a small amount.

This isn't the box office thread? Oh shit, I may have to start one!

Well I didn't see Million Dollar Baby listed anywhere in this thread.

few posts up -

Wasted?

Two films opening at 20+ million is not a wasted weekend.

That's excellent to hear! They took their time, but good for the film...

:up: :up: for Crash. This movie seems to have legs, hopefully.