The ComingSoon.net Box Office Report has been updated with studio estimates for the weekend. Be sure to check back on Monday for final figures based on actual box office.
After setting a new MLK Jr. weekend record, the J.J. Abrams-produced monster movie Cloverfield (Paramount) was clobbered by two new entries, and while the spoof comedy Meet the Spartans (20th Century Fox) and Sylvester Stallone's return as Rambo (Lionsgate) were running pretty close on Friday, the Spartans remained ahead over the weekend, grossing an estimated $18.7 million in 2,605 theaters compared to Rambo's $18.1 million. Ironically, neither movie was screened for critics until opening day proving the studio theory that reviews rarely help movies like these.
The Diane Lane serial killer thriller Untraceable (Sony/Screen Gems) also did relatively well, bringing in $11.2 million in 2,368 theaters as it opened in fifth place.
Cloverfield (Paramount) took such a hard hit in its second weekend, dropping 68%, that the romantic comedy 27 Dresses (20th Century Fox), starring Katherine Heigl and James Marsden, pulled ahead of it for third place with $13.6 million, bringing its total to $45.3 million. Cloverfield had to settle for fourth place with $12.7 million and a running total of $64.3 million.
In the meantime, Fox Searchlight's Juno basked in the glory of its multiple Oscar nominations as it crossed the $100 million mark this weekend, dropping to sixth place with $10.3 million, up 3% from the holiday weekend despite losing theaters.
Rob Reiner's The Bucket List (Warner Bros.), starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, also had a negligible drop-off from last weekend, dropping four places to #7 with an impressive weekend take of $10.2 million, bringing its own total to $57.7 million. (For those keeping score, that's 7 movies in the Top 10 making more than $10 million, which is almost unheard of for January!)
After being nominated for seven Oscars, P.T. Anderson's fifth movie There Will Be Blood doubled its theaters and made its first move into the Top 10 with $4.9 million, bringing its gross to just under the $15 million mark.
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Disney) and the Diane Lane/Queen Latifah crime-comedy Mad Money (Overture) rounded out the Top 10, each grossing $4.6 million, while this year's token January dance movie How She Move (Paramount Vantage) opened outside the Top 10 at #12 with $4.2 million in 1,531 theaters, an average of under $3,000 per theatre.
Opening on Wednesday in 61 IMAX theatres, the concert movie U2 3D (National Geographic) brought in $1.2 million in its first five days, while the Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (IFC) made $48 thousand in two theaters in New York in its exclusive first weekend release.
The Top 10 movies of the weekend grossed an estimated $109 million up roughly 32% from the same weekend last year.
Click here for the full box office estimates of the top 12 films.
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From an usher's perspective, theatres continue to be rocked by the incredible January numbers. We've been struggling hard to deal with the crowds when the numbers of employees in the theater are for estimates nearly 2000 people off.
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January 27, 2008 2:24 PM