Based on Sunday’s estimates:
1) Silent Hill: $20.2 million (first week)
There was a screening of this – at 9:00 on a Thursday – but curiously, internet press was not invited. Geez, you guys didn’t have something to HIDE, did you?
2) Scary Movie 4: $17 million ($67.6 million, second week)
You may not remember this, but the Zucker brothers used to be really, really funny.
3) The Sentinel: $14.6 million (first week)
We’ll wait until the official “24” movie comes out, thank you.
4) Ice Age: The Meltdown: $12.8 million ($167.8 million, fourth week)
In fairness to Denis Leary, the next installment should be “Ice Age: Diego Gets Peckish.”
5) The Wild: $8 million ($21.9 million, second week)
In fairness to its fifth place finish, it held surprisingly well.
The most maddening line has to be the dismal eighth place finish of the flat-out funny “American Dreamz,” which took in a paltry $3.6 million. Granted, it was in half as many theaters as everything else, but even if we doubled its gross, it would still place no higher than sixth place, and that’s just wrong, people.
