Monday, April 17, 2006

Weekend Box Office -- Final

A clutch of limited bows did okay -- "Friends With Money" was the leader and will go to almost 900 screens this weekend, joining "Thank You For Smoking, which went wide (for an indie) by hitting 1,100 screens and scoring a not-bad $4.5 million. "The Notorious Bettie Page" and "Kinky Boots" opened modestly and should fade quietly away. No, Disney didn't create the weak animated film "The Wild" inhouse, but just releasing it under the Disney banner weakens the brand name. Pixar has arrived just in the nick of time. "Inside Man" and "Failure To Launch" will both fall short of $100 million. And yes, there will be a "Scary Movie 5."

1. Scary Movie 4 -- $41 million
2. Ice Age: The Meltdown -- $20 million ($147.2 million)
3. The Benchwarmers -- $10 million($35.9 million)
4. The Wild -- $9.6 million
5. Take The Lead -- $6.7 million ($22.5 million)
6. Inside Man -- $6.3 million ($73.3 million)
7. Lucky Number Slevin -- $4.6 million ($14.1 million)
8. Thank You For Smoking -- $4.5 million ($11.5 million)
9. Failure To Launch -- $2.6 million ($83.2 million)
10. V For Vendetta -- $2.2 million ($65.9 million)

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