Friday 23 May 2008

Box Office Charts: w/e 23 May 2008

Friday 23 May 2008


In the US: the second Narnia movie, Prince Caspian, comfortably takes #1 -- pushing Iron Man into second place... all the other films just get shunted down 1 place, allowing new film The Visitor (about a college professor who finds a young couple living in his New York apartment) to snatch #10...

US TOP 10

(-) 1. The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian $55m
(1) 2. Iron Man $31.8m
(2) 3. What Happens In Vegas $13.9m
(3) 4. Speed Racer $8.12m
(4) 5. Made Of Honor $4.7m
(5) 6. Baby Mama $4.68m
(6) 7. Forgetting Sarah Marshall $2.79m
(7) 8. Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay $2m
(8) 9. The Forbidden Kingdom $1.07m
(-) 10. The Visitor $672k



In the UK: there's similarly very little change this week, as the only new entry is Bollywood movie Sukkar banat. Iron Man holds firm at #1, while Speed Racer bumps down from #4 to #5, swapping places with Nim's Island...

UK TOP 10

(1) 1. Iron Man £1.9m
(2) 2. What Happens In Vegas £1.5m
(3) 3. Forgetting Sarah Marshall £570k
(5) 4. Nim's Island £450k
(4) 5. Speed Racer £410k
(7) 6. Made Of Honor £285k
(6) 7. Doomsday £253k
(8) 8. In Bruges £133k
(-) 9. Sukkar banat £122k
(9) 10. 21 £97k

UK RELEASES THIS WEEK

INDIANA JONES & THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL
The intrepid archaeologist returns, entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secrets behind some mystical Crystal Skulls. Action-adventure starring Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John Hurt & Jim Broadbent.