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BOX OFFICE TOP TEN
1. The Dark Knight - $155.3 million ($155.3 million)
2. Mamma Mia - $27.6 million ($27.6 million)
3. Hancock - $14 million ($191.5 million)
4. Journey to the Center of the Earth - $11.9 million ($43 million)
5. Hellboy II: The Golden Army - $10 million ($56.4 million)
6. Wall-E - $9.8 million ($182.4 million)
7. Space Chimps - $7.3 million ($7.3 million)
8. Wanted - $5 million ($123.3 million)
9. Get Smart - $4 million ($119.5 million)
10. Kung Fu Panda - $1.7 million ($206.5 million)
As expected, The Dark Knight debuted #1 at the box office this weekend, earning a crushing $155.3 million! The film also had a massive per-theater average with $35,579 each. The film set fire to all kinds of records including the biggest opening weekend ever! Spiderman 3 previously held the record with $151.1 million.. The film also broke records for biggest midnight opening ($18.4 million, beating Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith) and biggest single day/opening day ($67.8 million, once again smackin' around the grossly inferior Spider-Man 3). The film took in $67.8 million on Friday, $48 million on Saturday and $39.4 million on Sunday. With a $180 million budget, the film should earn enough for everyone involved their own private island.
Boondock Saints 2 looks like it's finally going to get made after all. Both Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery will be reprising their roles as the karma delivery boys, as will their "father" Billy Connolly. The plot will center on the murder of a priest that's set up to look like the Saints did it, bringing them out of seclusion on a sheep farm in Ireland to bust all kinds of ass. Willem Dafoe reportedly won't be returning, and that's ok. One flamboyantly gay detective is enough.
Hancock fell one spot its third but remained in the top 3 earners for the weekend, pulling $14 million.
Meanwhile, the abominable celebration of being a whore and a terrible parent known as Mamma Mia debuted at #2 with $27.6 million. The film had a budget of $52 million.
Brendan Fraser brought his Journey to the Center of the Earth to fourth place in its second weekend, earning $11.9 million to improve its total to $43 million.
Space Chimps debuted at #7 with $7.3 million. At fist glance, this film looks like a good-times followup to Wall-E, but after seeing an extended trailer my only recommendation is to stay the hell away.
Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio are reportedly in final negotiations for two of the leads in Quentin Tarantino's opus
Inglorious Bastards, a WWII film centering on a group of allied soldiers behind enemy lines.
Filmmaker Michael Mann is hard at work on Public Enemies, an ambitious 1930's era gangster movie based on true events. It centers on Johnny Depp as John Dillinger, and features the untouchable Christian Bale as an FBI agent hunting him down. Look for it next year.
According to the Clinton News Record out of Ontario, Canada, Schwarzenegger protege Roland Kickinger will take over the steroid cyborg role in the Terminator: Salvation film. That's great news for anybody who cares at all about this project, because we've had our hopes in the clouds since Christian Bale joined the project, and have been praying that Arnold would sit this one out.
Johnn Woo is about to direct his first comic book adaptation, and it sounds like a stinker! Caliber is an upcoming comic book that sets King Arthur and his knights as 19th century gunslingers in the Pacific Northwest. How in the hell Woo plans on making that sellable is anybody's guess.
Mirage is already working on a live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie for 2010, but we've given up hoping that anybody can actually take the damn project seriously and make something cool with it. Did you see the last one? Terrible. Bring back ninja rap. And yes, Vanilla Ice still has to sing it.
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