Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures' PG-13 rated sci-fi action adventure The One slipped one notch to third place in its second week with a slower ESTIMATED $9.1 million (-52%) at 2,894 theaters (theater count unchanged; $3,144 per theater). Its cume is approximately $31.9 million.
Directed by James Wong, it stars Jet Li.
"We'll hang in there certainly and up with $55-60 million, which will be very profitable for us. It cost $42 million," Sony Pictures Entertainment worldwide marketing & distribution president Jeff Blake said Sunday morning.
"We had openings in (some of the) smaller territories in Asia--Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Hong Kong--and all were strong number one openings. So not only has it been very good here, it certainly looks to have great appeal overseas, as well."
Paramount's PG-13 rated thriller Domestic Disturbance fell one peg to fourth place in its second week with a calm ESTIMATED $8.5 million (-39%) at 2,910 theaters (theater count unchanged; $2,921 per theater). Its cume is approximately $26.0 million.
Directed by Harold Becker, it stars John Travolta.
Asked where Domestic Disturbance is heading in domestic theaters, Paramount distribution president Wayne Lewellen said Sunday morning, "The low $40 millions probably--maybe $45 million. We'll see how it holds up. There's a lot of heavyweights coming in (to the marketplace shortly)."
Franchise Pictures' R rated thriller Heist, released through Warner Bros., arrived in fifth place to an okay ESTIMATED $8.01 million at 1,891 theaters ($4,236 per theater).
Written and directed by David Mamet, it stars Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito and Delroy Lindo.
"It's probably one of the best reviewed movies of the year," Warner Bros. Distribution executive vice president Jeff Goldstein said Sunday morning. "We've had good audience reaction so we should be able to hold well through the Thanksgiving holiday.
"It's a significant movie for David Mamet. It's his most commercial film and his widest release to date, so it probably should be his biggest box office gross, too. I'm guessing that we'll probably get somewhere in the $20 millions and that probably will double his biggest commercial film prior to that, which is a very small art film called The Spanish Prisoner, which I loved. It was really well done."
Universal and Intermedia Films' PG-13 rated drama K-PAX fell two rungs in its third week to sixth place with a quiet ESTIMATED $6.25 million (-38%) at 2,581 theaters (+36 theaters; $2,420 per theater). Its cume is approximately $40.3 million.
Directed by Iain Softley, it stars Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges.
Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures' Thirteen Ghosts, a low budget Dark Castle Entertainment production, dropped two slots to seventh place in its third week with a less frightening ESTIMATED $4.18 million (-47%) at 2,351 theaters (-430 theaters; $1,776 per theater). Its cume is approximately $34.0 million, heading for about $37 million in domestic theaters.
Directed by Steve Beck, it stars Tony Shalhoub, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Lillard, Shannon Elizabeth, Rah Digga and F. Murray Abraham.