|
Rank
|
Title
|
Weekend
Gross |
Cumulative
Gross |
Weeks in Release
|
|
1
|
$20,500,000
|
$20,500,000
|
1
|
|
|
2
|
Red Eye |
$16,500,000
|
$16,500,000
|
1
|
|
3
|
$13,000,000
|
$43,600,000
|
2
|
|
|
4
|
$8,200,000
|
$177,900,000
|
6
|
|
|
5
|
The Skeleton Key |
$7,400,000
|
$30,100,000
|
2
|
|
6
|
March of the Penguins |
$6,600,000
|
$48,700,000
|
9
|
|
7
|
$6,000,000
|
$6,000,000
|
1
|
|
|
8
|
$5,700,000
|
$68,800,000
|
3
|
|
|
9
|
$4,500,000
|
$192,700,000
|
6
|
|
|
10
|
Sky High |
$4,000,000
|
$50,800,000
|
4
|
A pair of modestly budgeted flicks were the main competition for the weekend, but former Daily Show correspondent Steve Carell’s celibacy was more interesting than an airborne villain named Jackson Rippner as the R-rated comedy The 40 Year Old Virgin kept Wes Craven’s plane terror Red Eye in a holding pattern.
Both made a much bigger impression than the CGI pigeon kidflick Valiant, whose 7th place roasting behind the trudging birds of March of the Penguins is further proof that Disney really shouldn’t let Pixar go too lightly. Those ill-fated flappers still fared better than the new race flick Supercross, which immolated at the starting line with a measly $817 per-screen average, half that of the barely-there-anymore War of the Worlds.
Next weekend finally brings Terry Gilliam’s long-delayed The Brothers Grimm, the spelunking horrors of The Cave and the wannabe actor flick Undiscovered.