DreamWorks and 20th Century Fox's R rated adult appeal drama Road to Perdition dropped two posts to seventh place in its fifth week with an okay ESTIMATED $4.0 million (-39%) at 2,211 theaters (-121 theaters; $1,811 per theater). Its cume is approximately $84.1 million.
Directed by Sam Mendes, it stars Tom Hanks, Paul Newman and Jude Law.
Gold Circle Films and HBO's PG rated romantic comedy sleeper hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which was ninth last week, continued to widen in its 17th week via IFC Films, tying for eighth place with a still impressive ESTIMATED $3.2 million (+6%) at 723 theaters (+66 theaters; $4,426 per theater). Its cume is approximately $45.2 million, heading for $55-60 million in domestic theaters.
Directed by Joel Zwick, it stars Nia Vardalos and John Corbett.
MTV Films and Paramount's R rated concert film Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat, which was fourth last week, tied for eighth place in its second week with a less lively ESTIMATED $3.2 million (-57%) at 774 theaters (+22 theaters; $4,102 per theater). Its cume is approximately $13.2 million.
Directed by David Raynr, it stars Martin Lawrence.
Rounding out the Top 10 was Columbia's PG rated family comedy sequel Stuart Little 2, down four pegs in its fourth weekend with a quiet ESTIMATED $2.7 million (-56%) at 2,382 theaters (-713 theaters; $1,134 per theater). Its cume is approximately $53.0 million.
Directed by Rob Minkoff, it stars Geena Davis.
OTHER OPENINGS
This weekend also saw the arrival of Fox Searchlight Pictures' R rated comedy The Good Girl to a really good ESTIMATED $0.15 million at 4 theaters in New York and Los Angeles ($37,176 per theater). Its cume after five days is approximately $0.2 million.
Directed by Miguel Arteta, it stars Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal and John C. Reilly.
"It was fantastic," Fox Searchlight distribution president Stephen Gilula said Sunday morning. "That's the biggest opening in Searchlight history. The previous high was Boys Don't Cry (with $73,720 at two theaters the weekend of Oct. 8-10, 1999), in which Hilary Swank had quite a performance. Already some of the critics are talking about Jennifer for Oscar (consideration). Also, as far as I can tell, we're the biggest platform opening in 2002 so far this year. So we're very, very excited."
Building on the strong opening, Gilula said, "We're expanding this week to another 18 markets. We'll be on about 55 theaters next Friday. We'll be expanding the following week, as well, and we should be pretty wide by Labor Day. We hope to be on roughly 400 to 500 theaters by Aug. 30."
Focusing on Girl's opening weekend ticket sales, Gilula observed that, "The gross has been limited because we were selling out all the shows yesterday. On Saturday all the evening shows and most of the matinees sold out in all four theaters. So we were limited by our seating capacity."