Weekend Box-Office 5/19-21: Da Vinci Opens Big

[AndyDursin]

Well I guess every person who read the book went out to see the movie...I'm curious at seeing how huge of a drop it will take in the 2nd weekend, considering it's likely front-loaded and the bad word of mouth will knock it down.

Still that's a huge opening by the Friday projections...despite it being one of the most poorly-reviewed big-ticket studio movies in recent history.

1. DA VINCI CODE SONY 3,735 30,134,000 8,068 n/a
2. OVER THE HEDGE DREAMWORKS 4,059 11,128,000 2,742 n/a
3. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 3 - MI3 PARAMOUNT 3,450 3,420,000 991 n/a 93,921,000
4. POSEIDON WARNER BROS. 3,555 2,986,000 840 n/a 29,381,000
5. SEE NO EVIL LIONS GATE 1,257 1,653,000 1,315 n/a
6. RV SONY 2,925 1,350,000 462 n/a 46,163,000
7. JUST MY LUCK 20TH CENTURY FOX 2,543 1,121,000 441 n/a 7,902,000
8. AMERICAN HAUNTING, AN FREESTYLE 1,265 543,000 429 n/a 12,222,000
9. UNITED 93 UNIVERSAL 1,306 430,000 329 n/a 26,983,000
10. STICK IT BUENA VISTA 1,100 300,000 273 n/a 22,996,000

[Carlson2005]

What's more interesting to me is that MI3 still hasn't cracked $100m Stateside (although it's passed that overseas by now). Maybe part of the reason can be summed up in a magazine cover strapline I saw for their coverage of it - 'Tom Cruise is back, and this time it's personal. Again.'

[AndyDursin]

Here are the weekend numbers...DA VINCI was front loaded just a bit but that's an impressive number; obviously we'll see how well it holds up...MI3 continues to struggle by "blockbuster" standards domestically, no question, and will need international markets to turn a profit (and it has already, but still...that's unimpressive)....is it possible the Robin Williams dismally reviewed RV could end up outgrossing POSEIDON?? Both MI3 and POSEIDON had sizeable, post-50% drops.

1 N The Da Vinci Code Sony $77,000,000 - 3,735 - $20,615 $77,000,000
2 N Over the Hedge DW $37,228,000 - 4,059 - $9,171 $37,228,000
3 1 Mission: Impossible III Par. $11,015,000 -56.0% 3,450 -609 $3,192 $103,201,000
4 2 Poseidon WB $9,200,000 -58.5% 3,555 - $2,587 $36,778,000
5 3 RV Sony $5,100,000 -48.7% 2,925 -611 $1,743 $50,417,000
6 N See No Evil Lions $4,350,000 - 1,257 - $3,460 $4,350,000
7 4 Just My Luck Fox $3,375,000 -40.7% 2,543 +2 $1,327 $10,458,0008
8 5 An American Haunting Free $1,663,000 -53.3% 1,265 -438 $1,314 $13,624,000
9 6 United 93 Uni. $1,426,000 -59.4% 1,308 -563 $1,090 $28,282,000
10 9 Akeelah and the Bee Lions $1,000,000 -58.4% 751 -425 $1,331 $15,722,000