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March 2 , 2008
Weekend Finals
Semi-Po' and Con...
Despite topping the weekend box office chart with an estimated by $15.4 million, Semi-Pro provided slim comfort in a depressed post-Oscar frame. No Country for Old Men added close to 1000 theaters and saw its revenues rise 63% but other winners saw no immediate benefit in the domestic arena.The frame also saw a strong $8.2 million opening for the sexually charged The Other Boleyn Girl but the metaphoric comedy Penelope had a tepid $3.6 million bow. Limited release openers proved glum including the distaff road movie Bonneville that generated roughly a $1,400 average from 101 theaters and a perhaps overly aggressive 75 screen launch for the Brazilian City of Men that was inching toward a $1,600 average. The Chicago 10 had a less than nostalgic $42,400 gross from 14 courts.
Weekend box office inched toward $94 million for a sharp 15% decline from seven days earlier and an even steeper 24% drop from 2007. A year ago Wild Hogs left its closest competitor Zodiac in the dust as the two films entered the marketplace with respective debuts of $39.7 million and $13.4 million.
While unlikely to occur any time soon, the industry would be well advised to move the early March dates of the ShoWest exhibition convention. The timing is almost certain to coincide with a movie going lull that traditionally elevates anxiety among theater owners and recent pronouncements of turnarounds by industry leaders have sounded more like p.r. than anything vaguely based upon credible evidence.
Reflecting the overall industry belt tightening was last week's announcement of New Line's further absorption into the WB family. Whether intentional or not, one had to smile at its concision with the launch of Semi-Pro that was anticipated to be a more commercially potent performer (think Blades of Glory). But irony was not to be and the worst case scenario remains that New Line's future may be limited to a label to recycle past successes within a year.
The bright spot on the chart was The Other Boleyn Girl's fourth place finish with a sturdy $7,060 location average. It's always amazing when history challenged American movie goers embrace costumers and invariably it's some adroit marketing finesse that emphasizes the "sexier" aspects of the story that gets implanted. Efforts to connect a considerably more recent past in The Chicago 10 failed to create a B.O. bama, so kudos to the Tudors.
Oscar foreign-language winner The Counterfeiters from Austria doubled its playdates and box office but appears short of the commercial traction (or social vibrancy) of last year's triumphant The Lives of Others.
Weekend Finals - March 2, 2008
Title Semi-Pro 15,075,114 - 3121 15,075,114 Vantage Point 12,819,245 -44% 3150 40,823,745 The Spiderwick Chronicles 8,700,378 -34% 3654 55,028,942 The Other Boleyn Girl 8,203,061 -- 1166 8,203,061 Jumper 7,568,462 -40% 3128 66,790,968 Step Up 2 the Streets 5,742,479 -40% 2528 48,621,711 Fool's Gold 4,418,229 -33% 2845 58,800,790 No Country for Old Men 4,114,994 71% 2037 69,680,625 Penelope 3,802,144 - 1196 3,802,144 Definitely, Maybe 3,382,005 -35% 2189 26,650,585 Juno 3,264,570 -21% 1631 135,049,108 Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins 2,646,570 -36% 1393 39,128,395 Be Kind Rewind 2,089,157 -48% 810 7,123,561 The Bucket List 1,693,430 -33% 1565 87,604,043 There Will Be Blood 1,547,177 -42% 1248 37,572,245 Witless Protection 977,581 -54% 1354 3,485,150 Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus 3- 948,075 -40% 531 63,167,101 27 Dresses 855,724 -48% 796 74,466,610 Charlie Bartlett 836,285 -54% 1122 3,254,225 The Eye 779,186 -44% 624 30,046,798 In Bruges 775,255 5% 232 3,763,918 Alvin and the Chipmunks 662,436 -11% 701 213,675,858 U2 3D 607,095 -41% 451 5,738,171 Atonement 486,089 -60% 480 50,224,809 National Treasure: Book of Secre 422,985 -39% 389 216,599,988 I Am Legend 380,265 151% 343 255,268,029 Jodhaa Akbar 342,076 -51% 125 3,062,298 Enchanted 319,416 -15% 329 127,393,667 The Band's Visit 291,414 128% 64 899,405 Rambo 271,407 -58% 402 42,281,425 Meet the Spartans 247,987 -44% 340 37,751,406 Cloverfield 234,612 -39% 346 79,148,606 The Water Horse: Legend of Dee 203,287 -25% 314 41,542,595 Untraceable 195,307 -61% 218 28,687,835 Michael Clayton 193,821 -67% 200 48,849,846 Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adv 189,760 1% 45 8,536,174 The Counterfeiters 185,313 112% 18 330,137 Bonneville 173,284 - 101 173,284 Persepolis 153,154 -60% 165 3,778,450 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 151,553 -41% 131 5,530,368 The Savages 135,077 -31% 108 6,207,164 City of Men 130,579 - 75 130,579 Sweeney Todd 110,261 -28% 207 52,725,724 The Pirates Who Don't Do Anythi 108,395 -39% 252 12,701,880 Diary of the Dead 84,280 -31% 47 587,307 The Kite Runner 81,457 -24% 94 15,458,230 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days 78,185 -5% 41 1,000,043 Borderline 77,001 -31% 42 843,310 One Missed Call 68,630 -39% 123 26,812,746 Charlie Wilson's War 68,385 -39% 97 66,636,385 Bee Movie 66,182 -27% 107 127,000,319 The Golden Compass 62,419 -32% 112 70,083,519 First Sunday 55,959 -23% 65 38,003,969 La Vie en Rose 54,618 - 28 10,083,752 La Riviere aux castors 54,399 -12% 44 164,782