It seems the audience is McLOVIN Superbad. It's #1 again, reaching $68 mil. As for the newbies to the box office, miraculously in the lead is Mr. Bean's Holiday. Apparently, the end of the summer is primo tiempo for comedies. It came in at #4 with $10.1 mil. On it's heels is War at #5 with $10 mil. I'm guessing Statham needs to find a new trick quick before he loses his bankability. The ladies were MIA from the theaters, pinning The Nanny Diaries to the #6 spot with a shameful $7.8 mil. Critics thought Laura Linney (Breach) was its only treat. Could Johansson be losing her touch? And will Evans ever deliver on a leading man role? Well, at least they did better than her ex-boyfriend's movie, Resurrecting the Champ, which didn't even place in the top 10 and only scraped together $1.8 mil. The critics knocked it the fuck out, often citing its attempt to examine "journalistic integrity" as its downfall. It seems they might have been a bit offended. Dedication made $24,000 in the 4 theaters it was released in, which is relatively good. But the critics weren't too fond of Justin Theroux's directorial debut, complaining about it's predictable plot and uninteresting dialogue. Ethan Hawke's Hottest State, however, got rave reviews from big critics for its direction and effective dramatic scenes. Lastly, DiCpario's 20-theater release raked in $150,000, which I'm assuming will go towards...charity.
Rounding out the top 5 are Bourne Ultimatum and Rush Hour 3. The Invasion got so much bad buzz after its debut last week that it dropped five spots to #10 and has only reached to $11 mil. And Harry Potter has finally dropped out of the top 10 with a domestic gross of $283 mil.
Next week, we've got the horror rehash Halloween, the dummed down, slapstick comedy Balls of Fury, the bad ass action flick Death Sentence, and the mind-boggling indie The Nines.
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