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Source:
Box Office Guru
Posted on: Tue, Jan 15, 2008 10:47:07
Written By: Michael Dance
MichaelDance@TheCinemaSource.com
The box office remained healthy this week as both The Bucket List and First Sunday opened wide with respectable numbers. Awards contenders Atonement and Juno continue
to do well, while the rest of the top ten mostly consisted of holdovers from the holiday frame. The top ten, in millions:
The Bucket List, which has been in limited release since Christmas Day, finally opened wide and scored $19.4 million - an anomaly both for a movie starring two 70-
year-old men and for Rob Reiner, who has directed a string of flops over the decade. Reviews were unfortunately not setting the world on fire, which might hurt the film with its adult audiences
down the road.
Right behind it in second place was
First Sunday with $17.7 million. Ice Cube is one of the most reliable draws for African-American audiences and here he was aided by Tracy Morgan,
who might help turn this into an even bigger box office hit than Fat Bitch. (That was a 30 Rock inside joke, although not a very good one.)
Juno held steady in third place with a scant 14% drop down to $13.6 million. With $70 million in the bank so far, the flick shouldn't have much trouble crossing the
$100 million mark at its current pace. The lack of Golden Globe wins won't help - although, hey, nobody saw the Golden Globes anyway - and a handful of Oscar nominations next week might propel it to
around $120 million with a little legwork.
The holiday threesome
National Treasure: Book of Secrets,
Alvin and the Chipmunks, and
I Am Legend all followed in fifth, sixth, and seventh places, respectively. They've all been trading positions in relation to each other, but
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