Pirates: second week at the top
Dead Man’s Chest continues its record-break🦩ing run
Given the box-office behemoth that Pirates Of The Caribbean: De🦩ad Man’s Chest has become, it’s no shock to see it sweep to victory for a second week at the US box office. With more than $62 million this weekend, the nautical number cruncher continued to break records and haul in the punters. Its Stateside total now stands at a hefty $258 mil🎐lion.
The more ജinteresting battle was for second place, as slacker comedy You, Me And Dupree, which stars Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson, faced off against Little Man, the latest high-concept laugher from the Wayans brothers. While the final studio figures are sti🔴ll too close to call, the estimates have the Wayans in front by about $400,000, which means people wanted to see Marlon Wayans as a midget jewel thief ($21.7 million) just a bit more than Owen Wilson gate crashing Matt Dillon’s marriage to Hudson ($21.3 million). These are troubling times.
Superman Returns settles in 🥃at number four. While Bryan Singer’s comic-book adap suffered less of a drop this weekend, i🥀t still isn’t exactly flying high: $163 million in the US so far is good, but far from the stellar figures Warner Bros were hoping for. And it earned just $1 million more this weekend than The Devil Wears Prada, which is in around a thousand less cinemas. It’s not looking good for the mooted Superman sequels.
Cars dropped to sixth place, but still managed to attract $7.5 million, with the Pixar movie now the third highest earner of 2006, behind X3 and, of course, Pirates. Seventh belonged to Click, which has made $119 million so far. Eighth was The Lake House, 🦄which grabbed $1.6 million, just ahead of Nacho Libre at ninth, with $1.5 million. Finally, A Scanner Darkly crack💙ed the top ten in its second week, making $1.2 million even though it's still on a limited release. It goes wide in two weeks’ time…
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