After last week’s phenomenal $70 million plus opening, all eyes were back on an൩cient Sparta again for this weekend’s US box office resu🦂lts. Given that it had kept up a healthy tally during the week, 300 was expected to win its second weekend of release, but interest was more in how much it would drop.
We have our answer: according ꧋to stu♚dio estimates, it’s down 56% this weekend, though it still took in $31.1 million and has now soared to $127.4 million. Expect it to stay around for a while yet.
In second place, Wild Hogs showed no sign of slowing down, making an impressive $18.8 million in its third week, for a current total of $104 million. Looks like the US public’s appetite for bad movies is still in full swing. That meant Sandra Bullock’s latest, twisted time ♓tale Premonition, had to settle for third, and $18 million as it arrived in cinemas. Don’t feel bad for Sandy, though- that’s her highest opening ever for a movie.
In fourth, part of the Saw team brought us Dead Silence and while some have pointed to the lack of clever marketing (it’s a Universal film, not Saw’s usual Lionsgate handlers) in its slightly weak release, it managed $7.7 million on openinꦗg day.
Despite a more mature subject matter, Chris Rock still can’t seem to find a widespread audience, with remake I Think I Love My Wife staggering to fifth place with $5.7 million. That’s just ahead of Bridge To Terabithia in sixth, which has been out for five weeks already. The Disney family fantasy adventu♔re currently has $74.9 million in the bank.
Idling away at seventh is Ghost Rider, which made $4 million this weekend, pushing it past the $110 million mark in the US alone. And still lurking about, pulling in those few punters after quality filmmaking, Zodiac took eighth place, snatc🐈hing $3 million. David Fincher’s latest is sadly only at $29 million to date.
And sitting at the bottom of the charts we find Norbit slowly sinking to ninth, having nabbed $92.3 million thus far, with Music And Lyrics🍌 singing for its supper at 10th, with a disappointing total haul of $47𓃲.3 million, which includes this week’s $2 million.
