|
Rank
|
Title
|
Weekend
Gross |
Cumulative
Gross |
Weeks in Release
|
|
1
|
$31,400,000
|
$118,700,000
|
2
|
|
|
2
|
Narnia |
$30,100,000
|
$163,500,000
|
3
|
|
3
|
$23,500,000
|
$31,000,000
|
1
|
|
|
4
|
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 |
$14,700,000
|
$20,000,000
|
1
|
|
5
|
The Family Stone |
$10,800,000
|
$30,000,000
|
2
|
|
6
|
Memoirs of a Geisha |
$10,200,000
|
$13,200,000
|
3
|
|
7
|
The Ringer |
$8,400,000
|
$8,400,000
|
1
|
|
8
|
Rumor Has It |
$7,400,000
|
$7,400,000
|
1
|
|
9
|
$5,900,000
|
$5,900,000
|
1
|
|
|
10
|
$5,700,000
|
$262,400,000
|
6
|
(Note that these estimated figures also include Monday)
Peter Jackson’s big gorilla is still on a slow climb up the golden tower, but King Kong had enough holiday spirit to outrank Narnia at the box office over the 4-day Christmas weekend. Not far behind was the remake antics of Jim Carrey in Fun with Dick and Jane, and the sequel-of-a-remake antics of Steve Martin in Cheaper by the Dozen 2.
Christmas Day’s openings are now trying to catch up — specifically the Aussie thriller Wolf Creek and Jennifer Aniston’s comedy Rumor Has It. Johnny Knoxville’s literally retarded comedy The Ringer, which I honestly expected to go directly to DVD, actually managed to place inside the top 10. Other limited releases causing a stir off the chart: Brokeback Mountain, The Producers, and Spielberg’s Munich, which scored the highest per-screen average on just a few hundred screens.
These films will fight it out until the new year, when we enter the Dead Zone of January.