Based on Sunday’s estimates:
1) X-Men: The Last Stand: $120 million (first week)
In four short days, the third “X-Men” movie has already made more money than the third “Mission: Impossible” movie. Have fun spinning that nugget, Paramount.
2) The Da Vinci Code: $43 million ($145.4 million, second week)
Only three or four more weeks until we never have to write or think about this movie again.
3) Over the Hedge: $35.3 million ($84.3 million, second week)
“Da Vinci” fell off 44% this week. “Hedge” fell off 8%. Word of mouth: it’s the new/old way to market movies.
4) Mission: Impossible III: $8.5 million ($115.8 million, fourth week)
Should there be a fourth installment, Tom Cruise has commissioned a script about a “mutant” spy with a terrible, terrible secret. Some have called it the part Cruise was born to play.
5) Poseidon: $7 million ($46.6 million, third week)
At last, we are no longer bound to come up with another “RV” joke, which would have made us even with the number of jokes contained in the movie itself.
