Archive for Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Weekend box office
When actual figures for the weekend came in on Monday, it turned out that “The 40 Year-Old Virgin” took in a healthy $800,000 more than the $20.6 million Universal had estimated Sunday. In other adjustments, “The Dukes of Hazzard” moved up a notch to seventh place, trading places with “Valiant,” each of which was off about $200,000 more and less, respectively, than Sunday’s estimates.
Source: Exhibitor Relations Inc.
*–* MOVIE 3-DAY GROSS TOTAL (MILL.) VENUES AVGVENUE WEEKS
1The 40 $21.4 $21.4 2,845 $7,530 1 Year-Old Virgin (Universal)
2Red Eye $16.2 $16.2 3,079 $5,251 1 (DreamWorks)
3Four Brothers $12.5 $43.1 2,649 $4,714 2 (Paramount)
4Wedding $8.0 $177.6 2,920 $2,741 6 Crashers (New Line)
5The Skeleton $7.7 $30.4 2,774 $2,785 2 Key (Universal)
6March of the $6.5 $48.4 2,102 $3,086 9 Penguins (Warner Independent)
7The Dukes of $6.0 $69.1 3,404 $1,756 3 Hazzard (Warner Bros.)
8 Valiant $5.9 $5.9 2,014 $2,937 1 (Buena Vista)
9Charlie and $4.4 $192.6 2,575 $1,722 6 the Chocolate Factory (Warner Bros.)
10Sky High $4.0 $50.9 2,145 $1,881 4 (Buena Vista)
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Los Angeles Times
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- Dodgers great Maury Wills at peace with a sober reality
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- Southern California home sales jump 13.8% in July
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- Rick Warren impressive as McCain-Obama interviewer at Saddleback Church
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- Outside a Chinese gate, a Shaq
- Oscar De La Hoya wants to know final opponent soon
- McCain says he's prepared to be president and Obama isn't
- Dodgers are bringing back Greg Maddux
- Scientists elaborate on the case against Bruce Ivins
- Good and evil and Obama
- American Shawn Johnson finally gets her gold medal
- Henry Cejudo captures gold and a piece of the American dream
