Paramount and Village Roadshow Pictures' PG-13 youth appeal comedy Zoolander dropped two slots to ninth place in its fourth week with a dull ESTIMATED $3.3 million (-34%) at 2,285 theaters (-237 theaters; $1,444 per theater). Its cume is approximately $40.2 million, heading for $45 million in domestic theaters.
Directed by and starring Ben Stiller, it was produced by Scott Rudin, Ben Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld.
Rounding out the Top Ten was Miramax's PG-13 rated martial arts adventure Iron Monkey, which opened in sixth place the previous week, with a softer ESTIMATED $3.2 million (-47%) at 1,236 theaters (+10 theaters; $2,591 per theater). Its cume is approximately $10.8 million.
Directed by Yuen Wo Ping, it stars Yu Rong-Guang.
OTHER OPENINGS
This weekend also saw the arrival of Fox Searchlight's R rated animated feature Waking Life to a very lively ESTIMATED $0.088 million at four theaters ($22,000 per theater) in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto and Chicago. Its cume, reflecting five days for the film's run in New York, is approximately $0.094 million.
Written and directed by Richard Linklater, Life is a likely candidate in the new Academy Award category, Best Animated Feature.
"We're very pleased," Fox Searchlight distribution president Stephen Gilula said Sunday morning. "It's a very particular small art film, so I'm thrilled. We have the biggest limited opening of the fall, in fact on a screen average basis it's the biggest [limited] opening since our film The Deep End back in August. We will be expanding this week to an additional 14 cities to about 27 screens."
SNEAK PREVIEWS
This weekend saw no national sneak previews.