Box Office - 'Final Destination' Wins Again

If you go back a few days, we put forth a lot of options for this weekend's box office race but eventually settled on The Final Destination winning for a second straight week. The reason for all the possible storylines is that Labor Day blows. You never see a sure thing hit theaters this weekend, and if there is one it's only because the previous weeks were also so bad and a specific movie is opening unopposed. In this case, we have two strong former number ones in Final Destination and Inglourious Basterds going up against Gamer, which probably wouldn't do well any other time than Labor Day. All could win a weekend like this, but Final Destination did. Barely. With a $15 million four-day take (and $12.4 million on the tradition three-day weekend), the 3-D horror movie is not only a repeat winner but it's also the biggest entry in the decade-old franchise. It turns out that was enough to hold off a movie we didn't expect to be in the running, the Sandra BUllock comedy All About Steve. That film will probably early about $13 million through Labor Day, and came up about a million bucks short during the Friday - Sunday campaign. Basterds came in third, about a half-million back over the three-day stanza, but may actually pull ahead on Steve on Monday. Right now, the second place race for the holiday weekend is probably too close to call. That leaves Gamer way back in fouth, underperforming with $9 million and $11 million in the two categories. The week's other new release was Mike Judge's Extract, which I think you'd have to classify as a bomb. Any movie with that much of a marketing push that only generates about $4 million and barely makes the top ten in 1,500 theaters is not creating a model other films are likely to follow. The good news is this is a cheap flick and Judge has a well-established home video following, but that barely salves the wound here; Extract made about 60% of what it should have. The Top Five (Four-Day Estimates):
1 - Final Destination ($15 million)
2 - All About Steve ($13 million)
3 - Inglourious Basterds ($13 million)
4 - Gamer ($11 million)
5 - District 9 ($8 million)

Comments

[jazzy]

It was such a great movie. I watched it in 3D so I saw everything like a real !
There is nothing in content just having good idea on how each people die ^^!

Let's watch it !

[constant gina]

I really enjoyed the effects; the story telling and such wasn't all that to talk about.