This weekend is proving to be one of the slowest in quite some time as it pertains to box office. With a release of relatively lackluster new entries over the last three days that is understandable.
The top spot looks like it will fall to the new Will Ferrell film “Semi Pro,” With last weekend’s film, “Vantage Point” close behind in second place. However, those two top films of the weekend have nothing to boast about. “Semi Pro,” the basketball comedy will be lucky to break $17 million for its opening dunk while the political thriller “Vantage Point,” a real hit with critics, will add only $13 million to its second week in theaters. Regardless of the numbers “Vantage Point” is one worth seeing and with stars like Golden Globe nominee Dennis Quaid, Academy Award nominees and winners Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver and William Hurt, you can’t go wrong and will be thoroughly entertained for 90 minutes. Our review partners at MoviePulse give it 7 out of 10 and for them that’s almost like walking on water.
“The Spiderwick Chronicles” drops to third this week in its continued “tag your it!” game with “Jumper,” which drops like a rock to fifth place. “Jumper” will add another nearly $8 million to its slow growth in U.S. box office. It should be noted, as we mentioned before, that although the Hayden Christensen and Samuel L. Jackson SF movie isn’t doing very well with American audiences, in the overseas market it is going like gang-busters with well over $260 million to show for its international effort.”
At fourth is the other new entry that managed to hang in there for the Top 5, “The Other Boleyn Girl” starring Natalie Portman, Eric Bana and Scarlett Johansson.
We will have the full Top Ten box office weekend winners with all their final stats later in the week.
