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The ComingSoon.net Box Office Report has been updated with studio estimates for the weekend. Be sure to check back on Monday for the final figures based on actual box office.
Score one for director Martin Scorsese this weekend, as his latest crime drama The Departed, a remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and more, topped the weekend box office with an estimated $27 million in 3,017 theatres, an average of just slightly less than $9,000 per theatre.
Its predominantly older male audience was presumably enticed by Scorsese's return to the gangster world of earlier favorites combined with predominantly favorable reviews. It is Scorsese's first #1 opening movie since the 1991 remake of Cape Fear, which was also Scorsese's highest opening movie with just $10.2 million in 924 theatres. The Departed made more than that amount on Saturday alone, and based on estimates, it's the #8 highest opening October movie, though it will have some heavy competition in coming weeks if it hopes to cross the $100 million mark like Scorsese's last movie The Aviator.
Even with the huge amount of business for Scorsese's latest, the other two new wide releases also did well, making this the first weekend in two months where three new movies in wide release each made over $10 million. The weekend also was up 20% from the same weekend in October last year when five new movies opened, but only Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit made more than $15 million.
The Departed's prime competition came from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, a sequel to the 2003 horror remake starring Jordana Brewster, which opened with approximately $19.1 million, compared to the $28 million opening of the original movie.
In third place, Sony's animated family comedy Open Season, featuring the voices of Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher, took advantage of the lack of other family movies, adding another $16 million to its gross of $44.1 million. With many schools taking off Monday for Columbus Day, it only dropped 32% from its #1 opening weekend.
Opening in fourth place, Dane Cook and Jessica Simpson teamed up for the Lionsgate comedy Employee of the Month, which made a respectable $11.8 million in its debut, an average of $4,575 in 2,579 theatres.
The Kevin Costner-Ashton Kutcher Coast Guard drama The Guardian dropped down to #5 with a second weekend take of $9.6 million. So far, it has grossed $32.3 million.
Paramount-MTV Films' Jackass Number Two took a bigger tumble in its third weekend, making $6.4 million to bring its total to $62.7 million. It should pass the total box office gross of the original movie sometime this week.
MGM/Dimension Films' comedy School for Scoundrels took a nasty 60% plunge from its opening to 7th place, bringing in $3.4 million for a total of $14 million.
The Rock's football drama Gridiron Gang ended up at #8 with $2.3 million and a box office total of $36.6 million and Jet Li's Fearless fell just below with $2.2 million.
The period mystery The Illusionist, starring Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti and Jessica Biel, continues to do well, adding another $1.8 million in its 6th consecutive week in the Top 10. In two months of release, it has grossed over $34 million, and it's a definite hit for fledgling distributor, Yari Film Group.
Samuel Goldwyn Films' football drama Facing the Giants lost 20 theatres but added another $979 thousand, a 27% drop, to bring its total to $2.7 million. Not bad for a movie that only cost $100 thousand.
The Top 12 was rounded off with the hit Fox Searchlight comedy Little Miss Sunshine and Roland Emmerich's WWI epic Flyboys with $1.3 million and $1 million respectively.
John Cameron Mitchell's controversial sex-drama Shortbus, released by THINKFilm without a rating due to its graphic real sex, took in $121 thousand in just six theatres, a respectable average per theatre of $20 thousand.
Opening in one less theatre, Todd Field's drama Little Children, starring Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson, made $108 thousand its opening weekend.
Last week's royal duo, The Queen starring Helen Mirren and The Last King of Scotland with Forest Whitaker, each added theatres with the former making $400 thousand in 11 theatres and the latter adding $300 thousand in 30. Both films were written by Peter Morgan.
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Score one for director Martin Scorsese this weekend, as his latest crime drama The Departed, a remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and more, topped the weekend box office with an estimated $27 million in 3,017 theatres, an average of just slightly less than $9,000 per theatre.
Its predominantly older male audience was presumably enticed by Scorsese's return to the gangster world of earlier favorites combined with predominantly favorable reviews. It is Scorsese's first #1 opening movie since the 1991 remake of Cape Fear, which was also Scorsese's highest opening movie with just $10.2 million in 924 theatres. The Departed made more than that amount on Saturday alone, and based on estimates, it's the #8 highest opening October movie, though it will have some heavy competition in coming weeks if it hopes to cross the $100 million mark like Scorsese's last movie The Aviator.
Even with the huge amount of business for Scorsese's latest, the other two new wide releases also did well, making this the first weekend in two months where three new movies in wide release each made over $10 million. The weekend also was up 20% from the same weekend in October last year when five new movies opened, but only Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit made more than $15 million.
The Departed's prime competition came from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, a sequel to the 2003 horror remake starring Jordana Brewster, which opened with approximately $19.1 million, compared to the $28 million opening of the original movie.
In third place, Sony's animated family comedy Open Season, featuring the voices of Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher, took advantage of the lack of other family movies, adding another $16 million to its gross of $44.1 million. With many schools taking off Monday for Columbus Day, it only dropped 32% from its #1 opening weekend.
Opening in fourth place, Dane Cook and Jessica Simpson teamed up for the Lionsgate comedy Employee of the Month, which made a respectable $11.8 million in its debut, an average of $4,575 in 2,579 theatres.
The Kevin Costner-Ashton Kutcher Coast Guard drama The Guardian dropped down to #5 with a second weekend take of $9.6 million. So far, it has grossed $32.3 million.
Paramount-MTV Films' Jackass Number Two took a bigger tumble in its third weekend, making $6.4 million to bring its total to $62.7 million. It should pass the total box office gross of the original movie sometime this week.
MGM/Dimension Films' comedy School for Scoundrels took a nasty 60% plunge from its opening to 7th place, bringing in $3.4 million for a total of $14 million.
The Rock's football drama Gridiron Gang ended up at #8 with $2.3 million and a box office total of $36.6 million and Jet Li's Fearless fell just below with $2.2 million.
The period mystery The Illusionist, starring Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti and Jessica Biel, continues to do well, adding another $1.8 million in its 6th consecutive week in the Top 10. In two months of release, it has grossed over $34 million, and it's a definite hit for fledgling distributor, Yari Film Group.
Samuel Goldwyn Films' football drama Facing the Giants lost 20 theatres but added another $979 thousand, a 27% drop, to bring its total to $2.7 million. Not bad for a movie that only cost $100 thousand.
The Top 12 was rounded off with the hit Fox Searchlight comedy Little Miss Sunshine and Roland Emmerich's WWI epic Flyboys with $1.3 million and $1 million respectively.
John Cameron Mitchell's controversial sex-drama Shortbus, released by THINKFilm without a rating due to its graphic real sex, took in $121 thousand in just six theatres, a respectable average per theatre of $20 thousand.
Opening in one less theatre, Todd Field's drama Little Children, starring Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson, made $108 thousand its opening weekend.
Last week's royal duo, The Queen starring Helen Mirren and The Last King of Scotland with Forest Whitaker, each added theatres with the former making $400 thousand in 11 theatres and the latter adding $300 thousand in 30. Both films were written by Peter Morgan.
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=16863
