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06Sep2008

Box Office - 'Bangkok' Less Than Dangerous with $2.3 Million on Friday

DateSaturday, September 6, 2008 at 11:33AM
The worst weekend in how long? Steve Mason at Fantasy Moguls is predicting a $44 million weekend for the top 12 movies in the United States, and you'd have to go back to September 2001 for a weekend that bad. There were other things on people's minds that month, of course.

Only one weekend in this decade has failed to hit $40 million with its top 12, and that was in 2000. Both top movies on those weekends, incidentally, starred Keanu Reeves.

So what does $44 million mean? It means that Nicolas Cage's new flick, Bangkok Dangerous, is opening with a whimper; the Friday estimate is just over $2 million, so the weekend figure may be in the high sixes or low sevens. Think about that: $2 million on opening day. For the number one movie in the country.

I would pin a lot of this on the opening weekend of NFL, which, as everyone knows, is the biggest spectator sport in the country. Combine that with no new movies worth a damn, and you get futility like this.

Tropic Thunder will probably be second this weekend, and The Dark Knight should still squeak out a third-place finish, although its $5 million is just a drop in the bucket at this point. By the end of the weekend, the film will be over $510 million, with at least another $15, maybe $20 million to go.

We'll have full results tomorrow, though based on the figures so far, it won't be a weekend worth remembering.

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