For Tom Cruise this weekend, his mission was to top the US box office. Well… M:I
There was at least better news overseas for The Cruiser, as the film nabbed $70 million. But it won’t stop the whispers that his box office draw power is on the wane. Let’s see if the movie can cling on, particularly with the likes of The Da Vinci Code and X3 rumbling around the corner…
The week’s second new opening had even less reason to celebrate, despite a budget that would probably have just about covered lunch on the Mission set. An American Haunting was spooked by some horrifically mixed reviews and launched to a ghostly (okay, no more supernatural puns, we promise) $6.4 million.
And the there’s Hoot. Poor, poor Hoot. As in, no one really gave a “hoot” about a movie where a bunch of precocious eco-teens tried to save a family of loveable owls from a group of eeevil developers who were trying to build eevil houses and planned to bulldoze the owls’ habitat. Eevilly. The nature-conscious message movie flopped, taking just $3.4 million.
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Title
Weekend Gross
Total Gross
Week #
1
**Mission: Impossible III
** $48,025,000
$48,025,000
1
2
RV $11,100,000
31,006,000
2
3
**An American Haunting
**
$6,380,000
$6,380,000
1
4
**StickIt
**
$5,522,000
$17,977,000
2
5
**United 93
**
$5,211,000
$20,056,000
2
6
**Ice Age: The Meltdown
**
$4,000,000
$183,274,000
6
7
**Silent Hill
**
$3,900,000
$40,805,000
3
8
**Scary Movie 4
**
$3,763,000
$83,718,000
4
9
Akeelah And The Bee
$3,400,000
$10,663,000
2
10
****Hoot
**
**
$3,400,000
$3,400,000
1