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Superbad continues its great post-summer run, dropping just 31% to $5.2 million and a $111 million total. Halloween was sixth, followed by The Bourne Ultimatum, which was down an equally impressive 26% to $4 million and a $216 million total. Damon insists he's done with Borne, which makes me wonder if Universal execs won't try to continue the franchise with someone else. Clive Owen, anyone?
Balls of Fury was eighth with $3.3 million, a 40% drop, and a $28 million total. Rush Hour 3 was ninth with $3 million and a $133 million total, and Mr. Bean's Holiday wraps up the top ten with $2.6 million and a $28 million total.
In limited release, surrealist Julie (Titus, Frida) Taymor's critically divisive Beatles extravaganza Across the Universe opened very well with $685k from 23 theatres for a $29k average. It's not really being considered an awards contender at this point, but if it can generate some box office, look for some technical nods like production design down the road. 
Opening equally well was David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises with $553k from 15 theatres for a $36k average. Cronenberg and star Viggo Mortensen seem to have developed a good rapport following the critical and commercial success of A History of Violence. It's riding and 85% positive rating on Rottentomatoes.com, and, if it manages some decent box office, could net Mortensen an acting nod, although Cronenberg's cold, distant style generally precludes much else. And finally, Paul Haggis's In the Valley of Elah brought in $150k from 9 theatres for a decent $16.6k average. Critical support is generally positive but not over the moon, though this one feels like more of an Academy pic. Tommy Lee Jones looks to be having the best year of his career with this and No Country for Old Men.
So that about wraps it up for this week, folks. Tune in next week when I try to make sense of Dane Cook's appeal in Good Luck Chuck, any appeal in Resident Evil: Extinction, plus we get some more interesting limited releases in the much-anticipated (by me, at least) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Sean Penn's Into the Wild. See you then.
Comments (2)
Clive Owen obviously couldn't continue as the next Bourne since he was one of the original assassins in the first movie!
I see Matt Damon coming back to make atleast one more - this one has done so well!
1 of 2 | Posted by moasey | Posted on September 18, 2007 5:44 AM
moasey,
I realize owen was in Identity, but logical inconsistencies like that didn't stop WB execs from considering Michael Keaton for the new Joker (which I think would've been brilliant), or from shaving twenty years off jack ryan's age for The Sum of All Fears.
With this much money at stake, logic is the least of their concerns.
2 of 2 | Posted by sutter cane | Posted on September 18, 2007 2:09 PM