Disney’s Beverly Hills Chihuahua was top dog in the domestic box office for a second straight weekend, making a mutt out of the pre-frame favorite for No. 1–Warner Bros.’ star-studded Middle East thriller Body of Lies.
Chihuahua fetched an estimated $17.5 million this session, as a miniature weekend-over-weekend drop of just 40% groomed a 10-day cumulative box office of $52.5 million. Lies truly underperformed expectations with a shocking $13.1 million bow good only for a third-place showing.
Sony Screen Gem’s horror thriller Quarantine scared up a healthy $14.2 million to open in second place, while Universal’s pigskin pic The Express registered a disappointing $4.7 million in a sixth-place debut. And the Fox-distributed family fantasy City of Ember crashed and burned over its first frame with only $3.2 million in 10th place.
The whole world is going insane, and the full story is at The Hollywood Reporter.
what the hell is going on???!!!!
This is an example of why I have no faith in democracy.
um….they work this shit out many months in advance. the studio picks a weekend where the competition is crap, and releases then. no, it wouldn’t compete with Wall-E or Shrek 5. I bet very few other kids movies opened these last two weeks, certainly nothing with a huge promotional budget behind it. this is also how stuff like Disaster Movie end up shocking everyone in the #1 slot for a couple weeks…
Quarantine, surprisingly, was a helluva lot of fun.
I saw City of Ember this weekend. I actually found it pretty dull. The message was great, Tim Robbins was nails, but I thought the film lacked umph.
Blame the republicans!