Box Office: $55.7 million for SEX!
Posted by Matt Holmes
So in the end, Sex and the City becomes the highest grossing opening female led film of all time & THE HIGHEST GROSSING R-RATED COMEDY OPENING EVER with a massive $55.7 million.
How despicable. Sex and the City to have such a title. American Pie previously had that figure with a $45.1 million opening in 1999.
It’s also the biggest live-action film opening ever adapted from a t.v. show, beating out Mission Impossible’s 1994 gross of $45 million.
Elsewhere, bad word of mouth has only slightly dented Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull dropping 54% which results in $46 million for the three days and $216.8 million on a $185 million budget.
The decently reviewed horror The Strangers performed better than expected with $20 million on a majorly tough weekend, easily making a profit on a $9 million budget. Iron Man is up to $276.6 million and Narnia is on $115.7 million, well short of it’s $200 million budget.
| 1 | Sex and the City (2008) | $55.7M | $55.7M | |
| 2 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) | $46M | $217M | |
| 3 | The Strangers (2008) | $20.7M | $20.7M | |
| 4 | Iron Man (2008) | $14M | $277M | |
| 5 | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) | $13M | $116M | |
| 6 | What Happens in Vegas… (2008) | $6.85M | $66.1M | |
| 7 | Baby Mama (2008) | $2.22M | $56.1M | |
| 8 | Speed Racer (2008) | $2.14M | $40.6M | |
| 9 | Made of Honor (2008) | $2M | $43M | |
| 10 | Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) | $1.04M | $60.5M |
OPENING NEXT WEEK:
Adam Sandler does his 2008 version of a ridiculous comedy. His 2007 yawn fest with the same director resulted in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry’s $34 million opening.
The animated Kung Fu Panda brings a welcome relief to the Dreamworks cannon which had become so bloated with Over the Hedge. It looks fun and should make a damn good piece of profit.
The Promotion, Mongol and When Did You Last See Your Father are on limited U.S. release.
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It says a lot that Indiana Jones had already been knocked out of the top spot.
And I agree that SITC is “despicable.” They could call it Sluts in the City and it would have equated the same damned thing.
So already this summer season has had Narnia and Indiana Jones leading the “crappy sequel” stampede. And Sex in the City giving us new levels of gutter-centric storytelling. Cute.
I’m not sure I’d say Indy lost due to bad word of mouth–a 50% drop is pretty standard for summer flicks, I think Iron Man is the only one that stayed on top two weeks in a row, but only because it went up against Speed Racer which made less than half of Sex in the City’s opening, so Iron Man would have been in second place too if it came out in place of Indy.
I did say “only slightly” it’s total.
And to be fair, there hasnt been another movie that has enjoyed good word of mouth like Iron Man.
Speed Racer and Narnia certainly didnt get that.
A 50-percent drop off is normal, but this is Indiana Jones, not X-Men 2. The fact that it isn’t owning the box-office does say quite a lot about both Lucas and Spielberg and how far they’ve fallen.
They’ve clearly lost a step. Not that that’s news.
True, but I think making “just a regular hit” instead of “a mega-hit” isn’t exactly “falling”, if people expected it to make $400 million by the end of the month or something I’d say thats an unrealistic expectation to hold of a film. Technically, Indy 4 is the most successful movie Spielberg has done in the last ten years if we are talking B.O. numbers, and its still the second-most-successful film of the summer so far, only behind Iron Man which has been one of those unpredicatable runaway hits thats one of the most popular action blockbusters since Spiderman 2. None of the other Indy sequels were number one–Crusade was bested by Batman and Temple of Doom got its ass kicked by Ghostbusters. This whole box office game just seems to be people trying to justify their opinions, but the facts are all skewered.