Sunday
08Jun2008
Box Office - Everybody Was 'Kung Fu' Fighting
Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 11:34AM
Kung Fu Panda was the week's big winner, debuting with
$60 million, a pretty good number for an animated film (the tenth highest
all-time, in fact), which was more than enough to fight off the challenge of
Adam Sandler in
You Don't Mess With the Zohan. Still, don't feel sorry for
Zohan;
the movie is Sandler's fifth-best opening ever, although he has seven films that
kicked things off with three-day totals between $37 and $42 million, so this is
kind of his average.
Reader Comments (2)
Panda deserves every penny. Why must the children movies prove to be more entertaining and better made then the adult movies?
That's a good question. It's not always true, but that's the Pixar model, and if Dreamworks realizes that's the best way to do business: Look out.