Box Office Update: August 15-17, 2008

Box Office Chart of the top 10 movies this week

Top Movies
Weekend Gross*
Number of Screens
Per-Screen Average
Weeks in Release
Gross to Date*

1
Tropic Thunder
Paramount/DreamWorks
$26.0
3319
$7833
1
$37.0

2
The Dark Knight
Warner Bros.
$16.8
3590
$4676
5
$471.5

3
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Warner Bros
$15.5
3452
$4491
1
$15.5

4
Mirrors
Fox
$11.1
2664
$4176
1
$11.1

5
Pineapple Express
Sony
$10.0
3072
$3255
2
$62.9

6
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Universal
$8.6
3363
$2559
3
$86.6

7
Mamma Mia!
Universal
$6.5
2771
$2345
5
$116.4

8
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Warner Bros.
$5.9
2714
$2184
2
$32.1

9
Step Brothers
Sony
$5.0
2648
$1888
4
$90.9

10
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
MGM/Weinstein
$3.7
692
$5361
1
$3.7

In the last week of the unofficial summer movie season, [...]

“Vicky Cristina Barcelona”: The Sexiest Film of 2008?

Does this trailer for Woody Allen’s “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” opening Friday August 15th, make you think “trashy Spanish soap opera” or “steamy menage-a-trois classic?” The film centers around two recent college grads, played by Scarlett Johansson and British stage star Rebecca Hall, who meet artist and don juan Javier Bardem while vacationing in [...]

Will you see “Tropic Thunder”? Depends on which trailer you see.

Check out the RED BAND trailer at Daily Motion here.
Top: Mainstream “Tropic Thunder” trailer
Bottom: Red Band version of “Tropic Thunder” trailer
Seriously, how much funnier does “Tropic Thunder” look in the red band trailer? The mainstream trailer doesn’t contain a single laugh-out-loud crack, making the film look like a lame action parody [...]

Box Office Wrap Up: August 1-3

 Box Office Chart of the top 10 movies this week

Top Movies
Weekend Gross*
Number of Screens
Per-Screen Average
Weeks in Release
Gross to Date*

1
The Dark Knight
Warner Bros.
$43.8
4266
$10267
3
$394.9

2
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Universal
$42.5
3760
$11289
1
$42.5

3
Step Brothers
Sony
$16.3
3094
$5268
2
$63.0

4
Mamma Mia!
Universal
$13.1
3062
$4285
3
$88.0

5
Journey to the Center of the Earth
New Line
$6.9
2285
$3008
4
$73.1

6
Swing Vote
Buena Vista
$6.3
2213
$2846
1
$6.3

7
Hancock
Sony
$5.2
2782
$1869
5
$216.0

8
WALL-E
Buena Vista
$4.7
2555
$1857
6
$204.2

9
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Fox
$3.4
3185
$1075
2
$17.0

10
Space Chimps
Fox
$2.8
2134
$1330
3
$22.1

“The Dark Knight” reigns for the third week in a [...]

“The Mummy” is back. Is Brendan Fraser as well?

What took so long for this franchise to come back? The first two “Mummy” movies came out in 1999 and 2001 to huge box office receipts and lively fanfare. Who can forget The Rock’s cheesy yet awesome role as the Scorpion King, laying the smack down prehistoric style? But does anyone still [...]