|
Rank
|
Title
|
Weekend
Gross |
Cumulative
Gross |
Weeks in Release
|
|
1
|
$25,100,000
|
$25,100,000
|
1
|
|
|
2
|
$20,400,000
|
$358,300,000
|
4
|
|
|
3
|
John Tucker Must Die |
$14,000,000
|
$14,000,000
|
1
|
|
4
|
Monster House |
$11,500,000
|
$43,800,000
|
2
|
|
5
|
The Ant Bully |
$8,100,000
|
$8,100,000
|
1
|
|
6
|
$7,000,000
|
$59,000,000
|
3
|
|
|
7
|
$7,000,000
|
$32,000,000
|
2
|
|
|
8
|
Little Man |
$5,100,000
|
$50,100,000
|
3
|
|
9
|
The Devil Wears Prada |
$4,700,000
|
$106,600,000
|
5
|
|
10
|
$3,900,000
|
$18,400,000
|
2
|
Apologies to the few of you who were searching for the box office report last week — I was returning (and then recovering) from the trip to San Diego for Comic Con. Now I’m back with the sack! Of money.
Anyway, after a month of pillaging the high seas and every land mass in between, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest finally relinquished the stolen throne to a pair of cops from another established franchise, Michael Mann’s glossy big-screen version of his own TV series Miami Vice.
The teen carpet-bombing advertising approach obviously assisted John Tucker Must Die, but the CG animated movie of the moment The Ant Bully seemed to get lumped in with other sub-Pixar movies while Monster House continues its reign of neighborhood terror. Woody Allen’s Scoop hit a few hundred theaters and wrangled a per-screen average on par with the pirates. Meanwhile, Superman has left us once again. Will he return?
Next weekend brings Will Ferrell’s NASCAR comedy Talladega Nights, a Robin Williams thriller I know nothing about called The Night Listener, yet another generic-looking CG-animal movie Barnyard, and the rather excellent horror flick The Descent.