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Box Office Analysis: 'Disturbia' Makes Impressive Debut
Box Office Analysis: 'Disturbia' Makes Impressive Debut
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Hollywood.com Staff
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Monday, April 16, 2007
HOLLYWOOD - The North American box office took a new turn this weekend, with teen-thriller Disturbia debuting at the top with $23 million.
Disturbia stars up-and-comer Shia LaBeouf, whose long-rumored casting in the fourth Indiana Jones movie was confirmed Friday by producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg, as a teenager under house arrest who suspects one of his neighbors as a serial killer. LaBeouf also provides the lead voice for Sony's upcoming animated penguin comedy Surf's Up and stars in the science-fiction saga Transformers.
"The person you want to be right now is Shia LaBeouf. I want to be Shia LaBeouf. I want to be 20 and have all this happening to me. It's really great for him," Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers told The Associated Press. "2007 is Shia's year. He proved he can open a movie all by himself."
Other newcomers to the top 10 list included: The psychological thriller Perfect Stranger, starring Halle Berry and Bruce Willis, which opened in fourth place with $11.5 million, while the Viking actioner Pathfinder debuted in sixth with $4.8 million.
There was also a few openers that didn’t make it to the list. The adrenaline-packed Redline debuted at No. 11 with $4 million, while the animated Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters, a big-screen adaptation of the cult TV cartoon, opened $3.1 million. The crime thriller Slow Burn, starring Ray Liotta flopped with just $800,000. In limited release, the comic drama Year of the Dog opened with a strong $112,346 in seven theaters.
The Top 12 movies grossed $99.5 million over the weekend, down 9.41 percent from last year’s draw of $109.8 million and down 9.66 percent from last weekend’s total of $110.1 million.
The Top Three films at the box office this time last year were: Weinstein Co.’s Scary Movie 4, which opened at No. 1 with $40.2 million in 3,602 theaters, averaging $11,167 per theater; 20th Century Fox’s Ice Age: The Meltdown, which dropped to second place in its third week of release with $20 million in 3,873 theaters, averaging $5,171 per theater; and Sony’s The Benchwarmers, which dropped to third place in its second week with $9.9 million in 3,282 theaters, averaging $3,021 per theater. (Click here to read last year's box office report).
BOX OFFICE TOP 10, ESTIMATES:
(Source: Exhibitor Relations, Inc.)
No. 1: Disturbia (Paramount, PG-13)
• Gross: $23 million
• Weeks opened: NEW!
• Theaters: 2,925
• Per-theater average: $7,872
No. 2: Blades of Glory (Paramount, PG-13)
• Gross: $14 million (-38%)
• Weeks opened: 3
• Theaters: 3,467 (+57)
• Per-theater average: $4,057
• Cume to date: $90.1 million
No. 3: Meet the Robinsons (Buena Vista, G)
• Gross: $12.1 million (-28%)
• Weeks opened: 3
• Theaters: 3,238 (-197)
• Per-theater average: $3,738
• Cume to date: $72 million
No. 4: Perfect Stranger (Sony, R)
• Gross: $11.5 million
• Weeks opened: NEW!
• Theaters: 2,661
• Per-theater average: $4,322
No. 5 : Are We Done Yet? (Sony, PG)
• Gross: $9.2 million (-35%)
• Weeks opened: 2
• Theaters: 2,877 (unchanged)
• Per-theater average: $3,198
• Cume to date: $33 million
No. 6: Pathfinder (Sony, PG)
• Gross: $4.8 million
• Weeks opened: NEW!
• Theaters: 1,720
• Per-theater average: $2,791
No. 8: Wild Hogs (Buena Vista, PG-13)
• Gross: $4.6 million (-30%)
• Weeks opened: 7
• Theaters: 2,429 (-396)
• Per-theater average: $1,910
• Cume to date: $152.2 million
No. 8: The Reaping (Warner Bros., R)
• Gross: $4.5 million (-54%)
• Weeks opened: 2
• Theaters: 2,603 (unchanged)
• Per-theater average: $1,754
• Cume to date: $19.7 million
No. 9: 300 (Warner Bros., R)
• Gross: $4.3 million (-48%)
• Weeks opened: 6
• Theaters: 2,140 (-534)
• Per-theater average: $2,016
• Cume to date: $200.8 million
No. 10 Grindhouse (Weinstein Co., R)
• Gross: $4.2 million (-63%)
• Weeks opened: 2
• Theaters: 2,629 (+5)
• Per-theater average: $1,612
• Cume to date: $19.6 million
OTHER OPENINGS
Redline (Chicago Pictures, PG-13)
• Gross: $4 million
• Weeks opened: NEW!
• Theaters: 1,607
• Per-theater average: $2,489
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (First Look, R)
• Gross: $3 million
• Weeks opened: NEW!
• Theaters: 877
• Per-theater average: $3,521
Slow Burn (Lionsgate, R)
• Gross: $800,000
• Weeks opened: NEW!
• Theaters: 1,163
• Per-theater average: $688
Year of the Dog (Paramount Vantage, PG-13)
• Gross: $112,346
• Weeks opened: NEW!
• Theaters: 7
• Per-theater average: $16,049
Photo(s) by Hollywood.com Staff- © 2007- Paramount Pictures- All Rights Reserved
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