weekend box office: ‘Tropic Thunder’ smacks Batman down a notchThe back of the Dark Knight is finally broken. Here’s what happened at North American multiplexes this weekend: 1. Tropic Thunder: $26 million Thunder earned a total of $37 million since its opening last Wednesday, which is pretty good for a satire. But the Dark Knight still had his bright day: the flick has now edged past Star Wars to become the No. 2 movie in all-time grosses, with $471 million... though No. 1, Titanic, with a tad over $600 million, is still a long ways away. When grosses are adjusted for inflation, Knight is at No. 39, behind, of all movies, Beverly Hills Cop, and it will certainly keep edging its way up this list, but it has no hope in hell of overtaking the top movie, Gone With the Wind, and its adjusted gross of -- are you ready for this? -- $1.4 billion. In fact, Nos. 2 through 4 -- Star Wars, The Sound of Music, and E.T. -- all enjoy adjusted grosses over $1 billion. No movie today could ever hope to crash that party, not with all the other entertainment options we have at our disposal now. The other measure of a weekend’s take, the per-screen average, again was won by an indie, the IFC flick A Girl Cut in Two, with its per-screen of $9,750, though it took that in on each of only two screens. The indie Elegy was a close second, at $9,000 on each of six screens. But in third place was Tropic Thunder, with its per-screen of $7,833, at 3,319 venues. [numbers via Box Office Mojo] (Technorati tags: box office) support
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posted by Clayj (Mon Aug 18 08, 10:37AM)
Yeah, I didn't think that TDK would be able to hold off TT this weekend. And this weekend's Death Race should be popular enough to siphon off more TDK watchers, so I think TDK's reign at the box office has come to an end.
posted by Bill (Mon Aug 18 08, 10:46AM)
Clayj - I think you're right. I've seen TDK a couple times and would like to check it out again, but I am being drawn to 'Death Race' by the same forces that pulled me into 'Escape from L.A.' and draw 'The Running Man' into my DVD player.
posted by Shadowen (Tue Aug 19 08, 2:34AM)
Death Race will probably knock TDK down further, though out of sheer fanboyishness I hope it doesn't. (I also hope TDK will do something no film has done in some time, that I recall--reclaim first place after dropping out. That seems even less likely, though.)
What I despair most of is the knowledge that Disaster Movie will probably debut at a higher position than Dark Knight is in at the time, knocking it down further which will make me a very sad geek because such is proof that if God exists He's a bastard with no taste. Death Race, even if does look like a So Bad It's Good movie, also seems to be the kind of thing where some of the people involved cared. Like Underworld. It wasn't that great a movie, but at least they were *trying*.