Based on Sunday’s estimates, courtesy of boxofficemojo.com:
1) Night at the Museum: $24 million, $164 million to date (Will Harris, What’s All This, Then?)
We always suspected that all Attila the Hun really needed was a good cry. Dear God.
2) The Pursuit of Happyness: $13 million, #124.1 million to date (Bill Clark: A Don’t Call Me Shirley Joint)
Don’t Call Me Shirley makes big bank on people’s never-ending thirst for sappy feel-good story.
3) Children of Men: $10.2 million, $11.9 million to date (David Medsker, Scary Clown Studios)
A Scary Clown movie enters the top three for the first time in weeks, though it probably won’t be enough to keep his studio from landing in the cellar by season’s end. When the hell is “Letters from Iwo Jima” opening wide?!
4) Freedom Writers: $9.7 million
Believe it or not, this one is a free agent. Seven Strangers dropped it at the last minute to pick up “Primeval,” and before that, Punch and Pie dropped it for “Black Christmas.” Whoops.
5) Dreamgirls: $8.8 million, $54.4 million to date (Bill Clark, Don’t Call Me Shirley)
Billy got coin. Billy got coin. Billy got, Billy got, Billy got coin. And the movie is only showing on 852 screens, which means Billy’s got even more coin coming his way. Look out, Mark.
6) Happily N’Ever After: $6.8 million (Deb Medsker, Punch and Pie Pictures)
Few movies have deserved their 5% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes more than this one. The studio brags about the film’s turnaround time. We think they rushed it.
7) Charlotte’s Web: $6.6 million, $66.9 million to date (Deb Medsker, Punch and Pie Pictures)
Official statement from Punch and Pie President Deb Medsker: “If you don’t go see ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ the terrorists win.”
8) The Good Shepherd: $6.5 million, $48.4 million to date (Bill Clark, Don’t Call Me Shirley)
Trivia note: in order to save money, the makeup artists aged Angelina Jolie’s character by punching her in the face.
9) Rocky Balboa: $6.2 million, $60.8 million to date (Will Harris, What’s All This, Then?)
What’s All This has roared out of the cellar, though he’s grateful we’re not doing the “5×5” version of the league, which factors IMDb user ratings (“Van Wilder” sports a rating of 1.7)
10) We Are Marshall: $5.1 million, $35.4 million to date (Kristin Dreyer Kramer, Nights and Weekends)
Official statement from Nights and Weekends President Kristin Dreyer Kramer: “You all suck.”
12) Code Name: The Cleaner: $4.6 million
Sometimes bad things happen to bad people.
Current standings:
1) Reel Times Pictures: $283.4 million
2) TSSU Productions: $275.9 million
3) Punch and Pie Pictures: $256 million
4) A Don’t Call Me Shirley Joint: $234.8 million
5) What’s All This, Then?: $230.2 million
6) Scary Clown Studios: $169.1 million
7) Seven Strangers Productions: $168.9 million
8) Nights and Weekends: $164.1 million
Coming this week: Seven Strangers drops their last movie of the year in the croc-fest “Primeval,” and Don’t Call Me Shirley releases “Stomp the Yard.”
