Well it didn’t take a Box Office expert to know that Evan Almighty was set up to fail ever since the budget of $160 – $200 million was revealed back in October. Although it was pretty obvious, I stated that “there was no way in hell Evan would make a profit and someone would get fired over this movie” in my original post.
The Steve Carell led sequel to Bruce Almighty raked in only $32.1 million in it’s debut weekend which is less than half of the original’s $68 million. It’s going to need a long run in cinema’s and a big worldwide gross to stop this being a disaster but that seems unlikely. A lackluster trailer, a story that doesn’t look half as interesting as “the man who becomes God” in the first movie and the absence of Jim Carrey must all play a part in this failure.
A great trailer and some stellar reviews for 1408 put the horror/thriller in second place just ahead of Fantastic Four 2. The movie took in $20.2 million and is the highest opening weekend for a Stephen King adapted movie ever.
Elsewhere, critics are calling Angelina Jolie’s performance in A Mighty Heart the best of her career, but it only opened to $4 million at 10th place.
| 1 | Evan Almighty (2007) | $32.1M | $32.1M | |
| 2 | 1408 (2007) | $20.2M | $20.2M | |
| 3 | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) | $20.1M | $97.6M | |
| 4 | Ocean’s Thirteen (2007) | $11.3M | $91M | |
| 5 | Knocked Up (2006) | $10.6M | $109M | |
| 6 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007) | $7.21M | $287M | |
| 7 | Surf’s Up (2007) | $6.7M | $47.3M | |
| 8 | Shrek the Third (2007) | $5.75M | $308M | |
| 9 | Nancy Drew (2007) | $4.5M | $16.2M | |
| 10 | A Mighty Heart (2007) | $4.01M | $4.01M |
RELEASED NEXT WEEK:
Live Free or Die Hard, Ratatouille, Sicko, Evening, Vitus (limited)
source – box office mojo, imdb
One Comment
A movie about a modern day Noah and the ark. I suppose God wiping out the world didn’t tickle audiences funny bones’. They should have just stuck with the God-For-A-Day concept from the first one.
Nice to see 1408 debuted strongly. If you’d told me a horror film that doesn’t rely solely on SFX could get a number two ranking during THIS CGI/Sequel saturated summer, I would have said you were nuts.
Maybe there is hope after all.