Friday 13 June 2008

Box Office Charts: w/e 13 June 2008

Friday 13 June 2008


In the US: DreamWorks animation Kung Fu Panda (with the voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie and Jackie Chan) takes #1 with a very healthy £60m, comfortably beating Adam Sandler comedy You Don't Mess With The Zohan, where he plays a Mossad agent who becomes a New York hairdresser...

US TOP 10

(-) 1. Kung Fu Panda $60.2m
(-) 2. You Don't Mess With The Zohan $38.5m
(2) 3. Indiana Jones & The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull $22.8m
(1) 4. Sex & The City $21.2m
(3) 5. The Strangers $8.94m
(4) 6. Iron Man $7.48m
(5) 7. The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian $5.66m
(6) 8. What Happens In Vegas $3.44m
(8) 9. Baby Mama $807k
(9) 10. Made Of Honor $804k



In the UK: Sex & The City stays at #1 for its second week, which is more than Indiana Jones 4 managed (mind you, the latter has taken over £200m worldwide in under a month, so who cares)... Superhero Movie proves there's still an audience for piss-poor spoofs (people liked Scary/Epic/Date Movie enough to see this?)... poor slasher Prom Night manages a #4 debut... and Ben Affleck-directed thriller Gone Baby Gone (delayed in the UK because of the Madeline McCann case) comes in at #5, but only with £350k... Bollywood movie Sarkar Raj bows in at #8... Genghis Khan biopic Mongol limps in at #9 with a measly £185k...

UK TOP 10

(1) 1. Sex & The City £3.08m
(2) 2. Indiana Jones & The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull £2.6m
(-) 3. Superhero Movie £851k
(-) 4. Prom Night £507k
(-) 5. Gone Baby Gone £351k
(3) 6. What Happens In Vegas £290k
(4) 7. Iron Man £285k
(-) 8. Sarkar Raj £187k
(-) 9. Mongol £185k
(6) 10. Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay £111k


UK RELEASES THIS WEEK

THE HAPPENING
A family go on the run together when people mysteriously start committing suicide across the country. Thriller directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo & Ashlyn Sanchez.

THE INCREDIBLE HULK
Bruce Banner is on the run from the US Army while trying to find a cure for his condition -- cursed to turn into a green-skinned, super-strong giant when angered. Comic-book action starring Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, William Hurt & Tim Roth.