Weekend Top 10 Box Office Final — August 29-September 1, 2008
Totals include Labor Day Monday and only reflect U.S. box office. SF and genre-related films are in bold.
Title (Dist.)…..Weekend & Labor Day Total….Engagements….Total…Weeks Out
1. Tropic Thunder (Paramount/DreamWorks)….$11,518,611….3,473….$83,852,435….3
2. Babylon A.D. (Fox)….$9,484,627….3,390….$9,484,627….1
3. The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.)….$8,622,879….2,750….$502,293,926….7
4. The House Bunny (Sony)….$8,317,426….2,714….$27,868,669….2
5. Traitor (Overture Films)….$7,868,465….2,054….$9,369,792….1
6. Death Race (Universal)….$6,304,635….2,537….$23,154,165….2
7. Disaster Movie (Lionsgate)….$5,836,973….2,642….$5,836,973….1
8. Mamma Mia! (Universal)…..$4,211,495….1,968….$131,302,175….7
9. Pineapple Express (Sony)….$3,535,220….2,047….$79,918,601….4
10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (MGM)….$2,815,506….692….$12,599,417….3
Data from Box Office Mojo
could we unbold disaster movie? that’s not a genre movie, that’s a big steaming pile of something that is trying to make fun of our genre like the jocks make fun of the nerds.
Nope. There have been a ton of stinking piles of something that are genre-related.. This is just one more to add to the growing list.