Friday, 3 October 2008

Box Office Charts: w/e 3 October 2008

Friday, 3 October 2008
Here are the latest box office charts from the US and UK, together with details of the big new releases hitting British multiplexes this weekend. Enjoy!

US TOP 10

(-) 1. Eagle Eye $29.2m
(-) 2. Nights In Rodanthe $13.4m
(1) 3. Lakeview Terrace $6.97m
(-) 4. Fireproof $6.8m
(2) 5. Burn After Reading $6.2m
(4) 6. Igor $5.38m
(3) 7. My Best Friend's Girl $3.88m
(5) 8. Righteous Kill $3.71m
(-) 9. Miracle At St. Anna $3.48m
(6) 10. The Family That Preys $3.13m

UK TOP 10

(1) 1. Tropic Thunder £1.3m
(-) 2. Taken £1.1m
(-) 3. Righteous Kill £768k
(-) 4. Death Race £683k
(2) 5. Mamma Mia! £609k
(3) 6. The Women £405k
(6) 7. The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas £403k
(5) 8. The Duchess £349k
(4) 9. Pineapple Express £300k
(8) 10. Disaster Movie £269k


UK RELEASES THIS WEEK

"88 Minutes"

Crime drama. A successful forensic psychiatrist has 88 minutes to catch a serial-killer, who might be a copycat of a killer about to be executed.
Director: Jon Avnet Starring: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, Amy Brenneman & William Forsythe
US Box Office: $16 million
Tomatometer: 5% (Rotten; based on 115 reviews) "88 Minutes is a shockingly inept psychological thriller that expertly squanders the talent at hand."

"Brideshead Revisited"

Drama. The memoires of Captain Charles Ryder, who is stationed at Brideshead Castle during WWII and remembers his involvement with the owners of the Brideshead estate: the aristocratic yet Catholic Flyte family.
Director: Julian Jarrold Starring: Ben Wishaw, Emma Thompson, Matthew Goode, Thomas Morrison, Anna Madeley, Hayley Atwell, Patrick Malahide & Joseph Beattie
Tomatometer: 64% (Fresh; based on 102 reviews) "Suspenseful and beautifully mounted, Brideshead Revisited does an able job condensing Evelyn Waugh’s novel."

"Fly Me To The Moon"

Animated adventure. Three houseflies stoway aboard a NASA rocket and take a trip into space.
Director: Ben Stassen Voices: John Cusack, Tim Curry, Robert Patrick, Kelly Ripa, Buzz Aldrin, Nicolette Sheridan, Christopher Lloyd & Adrienne Barbeau
US Box Office: $11 million
Tomatometer: 17% (Rotten; based on 63 reviews) "Flatly animated and indifferently scripted, Fly Me To the Moon offers little for audiences not comprised of very young children."


"How To Lose Friends & Alienate People"

Comedy. A British writer struggled to fit into a high-profile New York magazine.
Director: Robert B. Weide Starring: Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox, Jeff Bridges & Gillian Anderson
Tomatometer: 41% (Rotten; based on 41 reviews) "A decent performance from Pegg in a disappointing film. Neither sharp nor satirical, Weide's adaptation relies too heavily on slapstick, and misses the point of the source material in the process."