Weekend Box Office
Len Klady estimates $14.8 million while Paramount’s estimate was $16.2 million. Either way, Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow did no better than okay. The same kindness cannot be extended to Mr. 3000 ($9.1 million) or Wimbledon ($8.2 million). (Really, how did they schedule this film and manage to miss both its namesake tourney and the U.S. Open?)
One positive story for Paramount is Without A Paddle, which inexplicably continues to hang in there like a champ, passing $50 million this weekend and rowing towards more than $60 million.
The Bourne Supremacy passed the $170 million mark this weekend, Napoleon Dynamite continues its march to $40 million and Collateral to its Cruise-an $100 million perch.
Meanwhile, lower down the weekend charts, Alien vs Predator and The Notebook are both going to slip over the $80 million mark, while The Manchurian Candidate will pass $65 million next weekend.
And the loser of the weekend? “National Lampoon’s” Gold Diggers, which averaged $376 per screen or roughly 4 people per screening.
can they give special prizes to the people who paid to see gold diggers?
Dave, I didn’t even know that Gold Diggers was being released. That’s so funny. Love the blog by the way. Though you need to link to it on THB website (if you did I missed it).
Golddiggers gets a score of 1 (out of 100) on metacritic.com One!
Man, what’s the use in a theatrical release when there’s no advertising? I didn’t even hear about Goldiggers until the Weekend Report, and I’m a geek who actually tries to keep up with this stuff.