The Coming Soon! Box Office Report has been updated with the studio estimates for this weekend. Stay tuned there for the final figures on Monday afternoon.
In a weekend when the second "Tomb Raider" was expected to top the box office, Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over took everyone by surprise landing in first place with $32.5 million from 3,344 theaters. The $38 million-budgeted sequel averaged $9,718 per theater.
Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl remained in second place with another $22.4 million in its third weekend to push its impressive total to $176.1 million.
Coming in very close in third was Sony's Bad Boys II which added $22 million in its sophomore frame for a total of $88.5 million so far.
Paramount's Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life instead came in at number four with $21.8 million from 3,222 theaters. Probably a lot below what the studio was expecting to debut with for the $95 million film.
Rounding out the top five was Universal's Seabiscuit which earned a strong $21.5 million from only 1,989 theaters for the best per-theater-average in the top 12 of $10,820. Look for the Tobey Maguire drama to stick around a while.
Also of note is Disney and Pixar's Finding Nemo. The animated feature earned $3.9 million this weekend to push its total to $312.7 million. It is now about $16 million away from passing up Disney's own The Lion King ($328.5 million) to become the biggest animated feature of all time.
This weekend marks the first time in history that five movies made over $20 million!
Saturday, September 19, 2009
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