Top 10 for April 21-23, 2006 Summary: Final numbers are in.
Audiences made the transition from horror spoof to just plain horror this weekend, as Sony's videogame adaptation and horror-thriller Silent Hill unseated last weeks' champ Scary Movie 4 with $20.1 million. Averaging a top ten best $6,903 in 2,926 theaters, the $50 million budgeted feature became the fourth film in Sony's arsenal to top the charts this year. The film's opening was in line with recent horror offerings Hostel ($19.5m opening, $47.3m total) andWhen a Stranger Calls ($21.6m, $47.8m total). With a reported 2/3 of its audience under 25, look for the poorly reviewed Hill to see heavy losses in the coming weeks.
Feeling the biggest heat from Silent Hill, as they share identical demographics, was last week's record-breaking champ Scary Movie 4, which tumbled a frightening 58% in its second weekend with $16.8 million. Budgeted at $45 million, The Weinstein Co. release has grossed a phenomenal $67.7 million in ten days, and should wind up with $90-95 million domestically by the end of its run.
Michael Douglas's political thriller The Sentinel took in $14.3 in its debut weekend, averaging a solid $5,091 in 2,822 theaters.
Continuing its steady march towards $200 million, the year's first major blockbuster Ice Age: The Meltdown took in another strong $12.8 million, falling 36% from a week ago (despite dropping 333 theaters from its release slate). In just four weeks, the $80 million budgeted computer-animated sequel has grossed $167.8 million, just $9 million behind the entire domestic total of its predecessor Ice Age.
Internationally, the film has been a monster, grossing $317 million or a massive 62% of the film's entire box office total of $485 million.
If there is a bright side to Disney's cg flop The Wild, it is that the film dropped a scant 17% in its second week of release to an estimated $8 million. That brings the $80 million budgeted film's total to $22 million in ten days.
The final debut of the weekend was a huge disappointment for Universal, as their satirical comedy debut American Dreamz managed just $3.7 million in 1,500 theaters for a poor $2,460 average.
Budgeted at a modest $17 million, the film most likely won't come close to breaking even in theaters.
Out of the top ten was Paramount's surprise hit Failure to Launch, which fell 45% to $1.4 million. In seven weeks, the Mathew McConaughey starrer has grossed an impressive $85.6 million.
As for the box office, the top ten films grossed an estimated $95.2 million, up 22% from last year's comparable frame when The Interpreter debuted at number one with $22.8 million.
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