New Bourne Weighs In
The Simpsons Movie sunk. Bratz and Hot Rod never got off the ground. All of which left plenty of room at the top for The Bourne Ultimatum.
The latest installment of the Matt Damon spy franchise became the biggest installment of the series, scoring $69.3 million, to easily lead the weekend box office, according to final figures from Exhibitor Relations.
Ticket sales for last weekend's number one film, The Simpsons Movie (second place, $25.1 million), fell 66 percent, a sizable drop even in this summer of the one-and-done box-office champ. Overall, the cartoon is not wanting for attention, having grossed $128.1 million through its first two weekends.
Like The Simpsons, Bratz is a movie featuring characters born of another medium (in the case of Bratz, a bad-attitude toy line). Unlike The Simpsons, the big-screen adaptation, which features live-action stars and somewhat improved behavior, came up small. Bratz bowed with $4.2 million...and 10th place.
Hot Rod, the new daredevil comedy starring "Lazy Sunday" king Andy Samberg, was an even weaker draw than Bratz, even though the former claimed ninth place. In about 1,500 theaters, Bratz averaged $2,789 per screen; playing in some 1,000 more theaters, Hot Rod averaged just $2,037, for an overall take of $5.3 million.
The Bourne Ultimatum, meanwhile, earned some nice clippings for its scrapbook as the biggest August opener ever, surpassing Signs, Collateral, The Sixth Sense and more. It was also the biggest Damon opener ever, surpassing Ocean's Eleven and its two sequels. And it was by far the biggest Bourne ever. (The Bourne Identity bowed with $27.1 million in 2002; Bourne Supremacy blew up to $52.5 million in 2004.)
As an underdog entry, Underdog, the weekend's other major release, did okay—$11.6 million, and third place.
Adam Sandler and Kevin James' I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (fourth place, $10.6 million) got within shouting distance of $100 million—it now stands at $91.8 million overall.
At the rate it's going, Lindsay Lohan's I Know Who Killed Me ($1.2 million; $6.2 million overall) should hit the nine-figure mark in spring 2010. I Know Who Killed Me departed the top 10 after just one weekend. Ditto for Who's Your Caddy? ($1.1 million; $4.8 million overall).
Also departing the top 10, albeit after much lengthier stays than either the Lohan thriller or the golf comedy: Ratatouille ($4 million; $188.2 million overall) and Live Free or Die Hard ($2.1 million; $130.2 million overall). The latter will go down in the books as the top-grossing entry in the Bruce Willis action franchise, with the proviso that the oldest of the entries was released when movie tickets were 19 years cheaper.
In limited release, the new Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony collaboration, El Cantante, worked out better than the couple's duet on the Grammys a couple years back. The musical biopic, about salsa legend Hector Lavoe, grossed $3.2 million at 542 theaters, giving it the third-best per-screen average of the weekend's top 12 films.
On the art-house circuit, the Jane Austen-story-as-chick-lit effort, Becoming Jane, made a spunky $972,066 million at 100 theaters.
Here's a rundown of the top 10 films based on final Friday-through-Sunday studio figures compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
1. The Bourne Ultimatum, $69.3 million
2. The Simpsons Movie, $25.1 million
3. Underdog, $11.6 million
4. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, $10.6 million
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, $9.5 million
6. Hairspray, $9.2 million
7. No Reservations, $6.6 million
8. Transformers, $6 million
9. Hot Rod, $5.3 million
10. Bratz, $4.2 million
(Originally published Aug. 5, 2007 at 2:36 p.m. PT.)
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