Evan Almighty, not so mighty in the box-office
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Evan Almighty debuted at #1 last weekend, raked in an impressive $32.1M opening sales, but still not mighty as compared to Jim Carrey's Bruce Almighty, which had a very high $68 million opening weekend.
Other new releases include 1408 at #2 and Angelina Jolies' A Mighty Heart, at #10.
1408's sales is impressive, overtaking previous week's champ Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, which slipped to #3.
Spider-Man dropped to #12, after staying in the Top 10 for 9 weeks.
Here's the US Weekend Box-Office (June 22-24, 2007):
1. "Evan Almighty," $32.1 million.
2. "1408," $20.175 million.
3. "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer," $20.15 million.
4. "Ocean's Thirteen," $11.3 million.
5. "Knocked Up," $10.6 million.
6. "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," $7.2 million.
7. "Surf's Up," $6.7 million. 8. "Shrek the Third," $5.8 million.
9. "Nancy Drew," $4.5 million.
10. "A Mighty Heart," $4 million.
On Friday, two potential chart toppers will be Die Hard 4.0 and Ratatouille. Which movie will snatch the #1 spot?
Good news to Spidey fanatics out there!
Spider-Man 3 is now the 10th highest grossing film of all time as of June 24th. Pirates 3 comes near at #15.
WORLD WIDE ALL-TIME BOX OFFICE
Last Update: 6-24-2007
1. Titanic 1997 $1,835,400,000
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 $1,129,200,000
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2006 $1,060,300,000
4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001 $968,700,000
5. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 1999 $922,400,000
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 $921,700,000
7. Jurassic Park 1993 $919,800,000
8. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005 $892,200,000
9. Shrek 2 2004 $880,900,000
10. Spider-Man 3 2007 $875,100,000
11. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002 $866,400,000
12. Finding Nemo 2003 $865,000,000
13. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 $860,800,000
14. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005 $848,500,000
15. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2007 $827,000,000
Figures from Yahoo! Movies and Celebrity Wonder
That can be expected, I suppose. Neither of the big two stars of "Bruce Almighty" returned. Instead, we get Steve Carrel, whom I love but isn't box-office dynamite.
ReplyDeleteSecond, I think the premise of this one seems far more offensive than the first (I haven't seen either, BTW). The first movie had a man given godly powers. The second, a man is asked to build an ark for a pending flood, despite the fact that God promised to never cause a worldwide flood again (after all, rainbows are reminders of God's promise, not the refraction of light through moist air).