May 11-13, Box Office ... Spider-Man shows no sign of slowing down //

[Minnesota]

Spider-Man 3 annihilated the competition as the summer blockbuster season continued to heat up this week (Shrek 3 will attempt to dethrone the champ next week). 28 Weeks Later came in with an impressive (yet distant) 10 million to grab the number 2 spot. Lindsey Lohan stripped her way to the no. 3 spot, placing the very popular Disturbia in forth. Rounding out the top five is the blue collar comedy Delta Farce. As per usual with this thread...    ,  ,  ... then feel free to discus with fellow roundtable members.


"Spider-Man 3" still rules worldwide box office

Spider-Man kept up his box office heroics for a second weekend, as the worldwide total for the third film in the superhero trilogy hit $622 million, the film's distributor said on Sunday.

In its second weekend of release, "Spider-Man 3" sold an estimated $145.5 million worth of tickets, split between $60 million for North America and $85.5 million internationally, said Columbia Pictures.

The worldwide lead is likely to change next weekend when "Shrek the Third" opens and then again the following weekend when "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" sets sail.

"Spider-Man 3" enjoyed a wide margin in North America over the two new releases that rounded out the top three: the zombie thriller "28 Weeks Later" with a disappointing $10 million, and the latest Lindsay Lohan flop "Georgia Rule" with $5.9 million.

After 10 days, the North American total for "Spider-Man 3" stands at $242.1 million. By contrast, 2004's "Spider-Man 2" had earned $256 million after two weekends, and 2002's "Spider-Man" $223 million. ("Spider-Man 2" got a two-day head start, opening on a Wednesday.)

The latest film suffered a steep 60 percent drop from its first weekend, compared with 49 percent for "Spider-Man 2" and 38 percent for "Spider-Man." Columbia said it was comfortable with the slide given the film's record-breaking $151 million first weekend. The previous holder of that record, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," fell 54 percent last year.

The Sony Corp .-owned studio said "Spider-Man 3" cost $258 million to produce, with sources estimating that prints and advertising adding about $125 million to the bill. The box office pot is split roughly between the studio and movie theater owners, according to a complex formula.

As with its predecessors, "Spider-Man 3" stars Tobey Maguire as both the titular crimefighter and Kirsten Dunst as his disenchanted girlfriend, Mary Jane. Sam Raimi directs. A fourth film is in the early stage of development.

The $10 million bow for "28 Weeks Later" matched the opening of its 2003 predecessor "28 Days Later," which opened in almost 1,000 fewer theaters. Industry observers had expected the new film to open in the midteen-millions. It was released by Fox Atomic, the nascent genre arm of Fox Searchlight, the art-house unit of News Corp.. A studio official did not return a call seeking comment.

"Georgia Rule" earned Lohan a ton of bad publicity last year when the film's producer, James G. Robinson, wrote the hard-partying actress a letter condemning her "irresponsible and unprofessional" conduct during production. It quickly found its way onto the Internet.

Lohan has failed to capitalize on her 2004 breakthrough "Mean Girls," starring in such poorly received films as "Herbie: Fully Loaded" and "Just My Luck."

In her new film, she plays a troubled teen who is sent to live with her tough grandmother (Jane Fonda) in small town. Felicity Huffman plays Lohan's alcoholic mother.

"Georgia Rule" was released on behalf of Robinson's Morgan Creek Prods. by Universal Pictures, a unit of General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal. Universal said the audience was primarily older women who were there to see Fonda. A spokesman for Morgan Creek did not return a call.

Also new was the wartime romp "Delta Farce," starring comedian Larry the Cable Guy, which crawled into the No. 5 spot with just $3.5 million. It was released by Lionsgate, a unit of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.

Source: http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/va/20070513/117908967300.html



Weekend Box Office Actuals (U.S.)
May 11 - 13 weekend

This Wk.      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101

Last Wk.        -1 (new) (new) -2 (new) -3 -4 -7 -5 -9 -8 (new) -6 -10 -11 -13 -35 -17 -18 -16 -42 -12 -15 -19 -14 -28 -31 -23 -24 -22 -21 -26 -25 -34 -30 -32 (new) -41 -47 -36 -33 -29 -37 (new) -39 -43 -20 -44 -49 -48 -72 (new) -61 -45 (new) -54 -53 -56 -59 -38 -66 -63 -50 -57 -83 -62 -75 -65 (new) -40 -67 -70 (new) -68 -87 (new) -79 -74 (new) -88 -69 -78 -95 -82 -101 -108 -117 -93 -92 -96 -114 (new) (re-entry) -100 (re-entry) -120 -113 -91 -94 -90 (re-entry)

Movie Spider-Man 3 28 Weeks Later Georgia Rule Disturbia Delta Farce Fracture The Invisible Meet the Robinsons Next Hot Fuzz Blades of Glory The Ex Lucky You Are We Done Yet? Vacancy Wild Hogs Waitress The Namesake Black Book Perfect Stranger Away From Her The Condemned In the Land of Women 300 Kickin It Old Skool The Valet TMNT The Lives of Others Firehouse Dog Year of the Dog The Hoax Shooter Night at the Museum Deep Sea 3-D The Last Mimzy After the Wedding The Salon The Hills Have Eyes II Roving Mars Avenue Montaigne Amazing Grace Grindhouse The Wind That Shakes... Blind Dating Pathfinder Wild Safari 3D The Reaping Miss Potter Paris, je t'aime Bridge to Terabithia Americanizing Shelley The Hip Hop Project Jindabyne Music and Lyrics Home of the Brave Into Great Silence Pan's Labyrinth The Host The TV Set The Flying Scotsman The Treatment The Ultimate Gift Aqua Teen Hunger Force Red Road Offside The Page Turner Zoo The Italian Show Business Civic Duty The Queen Killer of Sheep Chalk Private Fears in Public... Mafioso Day Night Day Night Triad Election Sweet Land I Don't Want to Sleep... Air Guitar Nation Diggers Boy Culture Nomad Alice Neel Stephanie Daley 2006 Academy Award... An Unreasonable Man Aliens of the Deep Black Snake Moan Disappearances Snow Cake Casting About Iraq in Fragments Syndromes and a Century Climates Volver Poison Friends First Snow Everything's Gone Green Sing Now or Forever... The Situation

Gross                          $58,166,256 $9,807,292 $6,773,870 $4,732,839 $3,420,645 $2,953,145 $2,315,286 $1,802,543 $1,738,056 $1,716,670 $1,450,594 $1,394,229 $1,195,342 $940,504 $817,962 $701,479 $656,988 $418,003 $370,351 $322,969 $310,540 $301,294 $275,289 $259,552 $215,121 $197,096 $191,660 $185,979 $163,553 $163,101 $139,926 $116,285 $116,148 $108,372 $105,368 $103,870 $92,362 $81,364 $79,351 $76,484 $70,800 $70,427 $68,637 $61,877 $58,362 $55,178 $51,616 $45,089 $40,494 $38,336 $36,450 $32,520 $31,434 $30,607 $25,261 $20,632 $18,360 $17,886 $17,775 $16,170 $14,261 $12,557 $11,448 $10,473 $10,339 $9,845 $9,360 $9,233 $8,829 $7,563 $7,477 $7,290 $6,913 $6,512 $6,187 $5,457 $4,804 $4,719 $4,377 $4,077 $3,723 $3,698 $2,868 $2,820 $2,437 $2,366 $2,217 $1,834 $1,560 $1,352 $948 $893 $749 $705 $593 $552 $439 $218 $165 $150 $143

Total Gross                $240,236,828 $9,807,292 $6,773,870 $66,220,865 $3,420,645 $31,032,946 $15,569,122 $94,296,510 $14,738,075 $18,991,668 $113,874,366 $1,394,229 $4,818,316 $47,342,077 $17,894,639 $161,049,135 $808,932 $12,070,226 $2,282,722 $23,380,738 $483,865 $7,070,511 $10,652,576 $208,323,517 $4,126,874 $970,564 $53,491,142 $9,690,825 $13,163,214 $1,177,245 $6,960,360 $46,411,361 $250,603,633 $27,242,173 $20,812,786 $881,489 $92,362 $20,693,511 $7,159,302 $1,651,332 $20,988,223 $24,437,669 $768,801 $61,877 $9,793,043 $13,185,485 $24,830,388 $2,731,707 $101,881 $81,294,537 $60,975 $32,520 $99,341 $50,562,555 $25,261 $526,959 $37,541,055 $2,151,913 $202,436 $122,919 $36,039 $3,420,871 $5,470,485 $102,424 $95,204 $184,611 $37,317 $504,580 $8,829 $87,106 $56,437,947 $178,530 $6,913 $76,328 $312,892 $8,234 $33,321 $1,641,791 $4,377 $47,784 $65,937 $161,771 $77,231 $32,877 $15,066 $333,296 $175,237 $8,901,018 $9,394,218 $3,719 $10,172 $893 $196,135 $14,662 $116,589 $12,899,039 $6,631 $212,117 $14,659 $21,908 $47,212

Theaters      4,252 2,303 2,523 3,106 1,931 2,202 1,943 1,640 2,017 1,240 1,436 1,009 2,525 1,010 906 717 65 271 182 346 54 508 455 230 299 66 404 130 352 152 206 152 200 25 205 55 210 115 10 50 150 95 44 74 100 10 160 62 2 65 4 42 16 73 44 16 37 34 12 36 3 27 36 11 7 11 5 12 1 23 23 5 1 5 4 1 1 4 1 9 5 2 21 1 2 5 6 1 7 1 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 5 1 1 1

Per Thtr. $13,680 $4,258 $2,685 $1,524 $1,771 $1,341 $1,192 $1,099 $862 $1,384 $1,010 $1,382 $473 $931 $903 $978 $10,108 $1,542 $2,035 $933 $5,751 $593 $605 $1,128 $719 $2,986 $474 $1,431 $465 $1,073 $679 $765 $581 $4,335 $514 $1,889 $440 $708 $7,935 $1,530 $472 $741 $1,560 $836 $584 $5,518 $323 $727 $20,247 $590 $9,113 $774 $1,965 $419 $574 $1,290 $496 $526 $1,481 $449 $4,754 $465 $318 $952 $1,477 $895 $1,872 $769 $8,829 $329 $325 $1,458 $6,913 $1,302 $1,547 $5,457 $4,804 $1,180 $4,377 $453 $745 $1,849 $137 $2,820 $1,219 $473 $370 $1,834 $223 $1,352 $316 $893 $375 $705 $593 $552 $439 $44 $165 $150 $143

Source: http://www.the-numbers.com/charts/thisweek.php

[gbeenie]

$60 million for a second weekend is amazing (and it's one case where I wouldn't take a 60% drop-off too hard, if I were Sony). And once again, it sucked all the air out of the room, even for the generally better-reviewed 28 Weeks Later. This weekend, when Spider-Man 3 faces its first serious competition (from Shrek The Third), and its print count is liable to drop substantially (MANY theatres are likely to ditch some of their multiple prints of it), it'll face a more serious test.

[robertraur]

Very impressive debut from 28 weeks later, I would have figured Georgia Rule would have been second.

And Hot Fuzz has managed to stay in the top 10 for four weeks now.  I saw it again last night and the theater was about half full.  I think this is great news for those looking to champion good movies.  But probably the best news out of this is Delta Farce falling flat on its face in fifth place.

[Minnesota]

Actuals are up.

I agree with all of the comments made. 60 million is still a LOT of money, Hot Fuzz is a total sleeper hit, and I really hope that 28 weeks later can match another 10 million next week.
... Delta Farce looks pretty stupid, but I expected it to do better than 5th?! Seriously doesn't 'blue collar' share the same audience as  Wild Hogs ($161,049,135 to date)?

[J-Proof]

Nah - Wild Hogs was Disney so it appealed to a broader audience. Blue Collar is more honed-in on a certain demographic methinks

[mrbasehart]

Nearly 10 million for 28 Weeks isn't bad.... I'm thinking it'll have legs over the summer season, as an alternate to all the other blockbuster fare.  Spider-Man will enjoy relatively little competition over here for another week, as Shrek comes out in a month or so here. 

[BBQ Platypus]

Well, as far as movies go, the summer's already over for me.  I have no interest in seeing the other two big sequels coming out this month, given the fact that their predecessors were utter crap.