Sunday
12Oct2008
Box Office - 'Chihuahua' Wins Again, 'Body of Lies' Tanks
Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 10:55AM
How 'bout that
Body of Lies?
Leonardo
DiCaprio,
Russell Crowe,
Ridley Scott...sounds
like it's up your alley, right? You couldn't prove that looking at the box
office numbers, as the new espionage thriller opened with an uninspiring $13
million, only good enough for third place, according to weekend estimates
released by
Box Office Mojo.
2 - Quarantine ($14.2 million)
3 - Body of Lies ($13.1 million)
4 - Eagle Eye ($11 million)
5 - Nick and Norah ($6.5 million)
Instead, it was the movies that had been in theaters at least a week that attracted crowds, with only one carryover in the top 15 losing more than half of its attendance numbers from the previous weekend.
I would guess that Quarantine and Lies shared a fair percentage of the same audience, so maybe that's a contributing factor to the disappointing debut for the Leo-Crowe flick. The movie faces a huge uphill battle to turn a profit; it might make $40 million domestically against a $70 million budget. But the news is even worse for City of Ember, a $40 million fantasy that earned less than 10% of its budget back this weekend. That film is on pace for a $15 million domestic run, which will make the international receipts much more important.
The Top Five:
1 - Beverly Hills Chihuahua ($17.5 million)
2 - Quarantine ($14.2 million)
3 - Body of Lies ($13.1 million)
4 - Eagle Eye ($11 million)
5 - Nick and Norah ($6.5 million)
Reader Comments (5)
"Body of Lies" is a boring title and it looks like every other movie of it's type. That's why no one wants to see it. I think audiences are trending away from seeing movies based only on the stars. I like the cast and I think DeCaprio is one of the finest actors of his generation, but very little interested me about this movie. There's just something about it I can't quite put my finger on.
The marketing was awful. They could've maybe found a better title, but the trailers were bad. Bad.
DiCaprio is playing to my father's generation...not mine.
Yeah, he should be Tony Stark. He should be RockNRolla. He should be Brad Pitt's character in Burn After Reading (Sorry Brad!). He should be Jason Bourne!
Instead, he's trying to be Pacino circa 1977.
Dad would'a loved him in '77!
Yeah Brad! Act your effing age!