Saturday 27 October 2007

Box Office Charts: w/e 26 October 2007

Saturday 27 October 2007
Vampire chiller 30 Days Of Night has a good opening at #1... sporting comedy The Comebacks drops to #5... Ben Affleck's directorial debut gets great reviews, to take #6... Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas is re-released for Halloween and enters the chart at #8... while Rendition flops in at #9.

US TOP 10

1. 30 Days Of Night $16m
2. Why Did I Get Married? $12.2m
3. The Game Plan $8.18m
4. Michael Clayton $6.68m
5. The Comebacks $5.58m
6. Gone Baby Gone $5.5m
7. We Own The Night $5.42m
8. The Nightmare Before Christmas $5.33m
9. Rendition $4.06m
10. The Heartbreak Kid $3.81m

Ratatouille keeps the #1 spot, beating Stardust into #2... Rendition does well to take #3, particularly when you consider it has flopped in the US... The Seeker similarly flops in the UK with a debut at #7... Atonement begins to slip from the chart... and Nancy Drew failed to draw in the half-term school crowd, in at #10.

UK TOP 10

1. Ratatouille £3.05m
2. Stardust £2.2m
3. Rendition £5.83k
4. The Heartbreak Kid £458k
5. Resident Evil: Extinction £429k
6. Run, Fat Boy, Run £223k
7. The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising £214k
8. The Kingdom £210k
9. Atonement £136k
10. Nancy Drew £135k

UK RELEASES THIS WEEK

EASTERN PROMISES
A London midwife finds herself embroiled with the Russian mafia after investigating a dead girl's diary. Violent thriller starring Viggo Mortense and Naomi Watts, from director David Cronenberg.

SAW IV
Jigsaw and his young apprentice are dead, but detectives become involved in another twisted game. Horror sequel starring Tobin Bell.