'Game Plan' wins box office
Comedy squeezes past 'Kingdom'
By ANTHONY D'ALESSANDRO; Variety Online
Disney’s football-family comedy “The Game Plan” squeezed
past U’s FBI-Middle Eastern actioner “The Kingdom” for
the top spot at the Friday box office.
The Dwayne Johnson laffer
scored $6.2 million at 3,103 theaters versus “The Kingdom’s” $6
million on 2,792, making it a tight race for this weekend’s
B.O. crown.
Sony-Screen Gems’ zombie vidgame adaptation “Resident
Evil: Extinction” held the third spot yesterday with $2.4
million at 2,828 theaters; a 75% drop from its opening Friday.
Through
its first eight days, the sequel’s current cume stands
at $31.2 million.
In fourth place, Lionsgate’s Dane Cook-Jessica Alba romantic
comedy “Good Luck Chuck” swooned $2 million at 2,612
engagements, down 60% on its second Friday, for a domestic cume
of $19.3 million.
The Russell Crowe-Christian Bale western remake “3:10
to Yuma” continued to rope in moviegoers during its fourth
Friday, collecting $1.2 million from 3,006 locales, off 32% from
a week
ago. To date, Lionsgate has generated $40.9 million in domestic
coin from “Yuma.”
This Friday’s other new wide
entry, MGM-Lakeshore’s “Feast
of Love,” wooed few with $558,000 at 1,200 locations.
Arthouse
auds continued to hike to Sean Penn’s teen bio “Into
the Wild” in its second frame, grossing $185,000 at 33 locations,
an uptick of 214% from last Friday.
Roadside Attractions’ new thriller “Trade” about
the international sex slave network grossed $34,000 off 90 runs,
while the Focus Features Ang Lee Chinese drama "Lust, Caution" bowed
at one theater in New York to $19,000.
Holding at five hardtops,
Warner Bros. Brad Pitt-Casey Affleck oater “The Assassination
of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” dropped 37% from
its opening Friday to $28,000 yesterday.
According to Rentrak, the
last Friday of September 2006 had a slightly wider spread between
its weekend’s top two entries with Sony’s
animated pic “Open Season” grabbing $6.2 million and
Disney’s action pic “The Guardian” grossing $5.8
million. Both “Season” and “Guardian” went
on to respectively open at $23.6 million and $18 million.
Read the full article at: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117973047.html?categoryid=10&cs;=1
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