|
Rank
|
Title
|
Weekend
Gross |
Cumulative
Gross |
Weeks in
Release |
|
1
|
The Messenger
|
$14,500,000
|
$14,500,000
|
1
|
|
2
|
Because I Told You So |
$13,022,000
|
$13,022,000
|
1
|
|
3
|
Epic Movie |
$8,225,000
|
$29,369,000
|
2
|
|
4
|
Night at the Museum |
$6,750,000
|
$225,365,000
|
7
|
|
5
|
Smokin’ Aces
|
$6,324,000
|
$24,955,000
|
2
|
|
6
|
Stomp the Yard |
$4,200,000
|
$56,001,000
|
4
|
|
7
|
Dreamgirls |
$4,048,000
|
$92,795,000
|
8
|
|
8
|
$3,663,000
|
$21,696,000
|
6
|
|
|
9
|
The Pursuit of Happyness |
$3,100,000
|
$157,351,000
|
8
|
|
10
|
The Queen |
$2,710,000
|
$45,522,000
|
19 |
Even though Rex "Primetime? What’s that again…?" Grossman didn’t get MVP for the Colts but should have, I still walked away from my Super Bowl extravaganza satisfied and 4 pounds heavier thanks to 7-layer bean dip, Diet Coke, BBQ sandwiches and about thirty different types of fat-suck intended to goop up the end of a chip. What does that have to do with box office? Absolutely nothing. Nothing besides the fact it was indeed Superbowl weekend and there was a slow, predictable box office to show it.
The two new wide releases, The Messengers and Diane Keaton’s quirky meddling mom rom-dram-com Because I Told You So, easily took the number one and two spots from last week’s contender Epic Movie and runner-up Smokin’Aces, as both dropped off roughly 55%. Epic Movie managed to take the number three spot while Smokin’ Aces couldn’t budge the rock of Night at the Museum, and dejectedly took its place at number five. Last week’s number four, Catch and Release, sunk completely out of the top ten. RIP.
Stomp the Yard and Dreamgirls each slipped back a spot to land at the lower half of the ten at number six and number seven. Pan’s Labyrinth is tenacious, holding the same eight spot it did last week, while The Pursuit of Happyness hit nine and The Queen subjected ten.
I’d expect a pretty strong weekend up and coming, as Eddie Murphy hops on his one trick fat-suit pony and rides it out into theaters this Friday with Norbit and the Hannibal gets recast as a youngster in the Silence of the Lambs prequel, Hannibal Rising.