Based on Sunday’s estimates:
1) Mission: Impossible III: $24.5 million ($84.6 million, second week)
Paramount’s marketing department gets a reprieve from being fed to Brad Grey’s dogs, but they should spend this time getting their affairs in order, since the godless followers of “The Da Vinci Code” are going to eat this movie alive next week.
2) Poseidon: $20.3 million (first week)
Only $140 million to go before it breaks even. Good luck with that, fellas.
3) RV: $9.5 million ($42.8 million, third week)
The most frightening part is that while every other movie’s box office fell off 30%-50%, “RV” only fell off 13.7%. Which begs the question: are people going back to see this movie a second time? Find them, kill them, distribute their possessions evenly amongst the rest of us.
4) Just My Luck: $5.5 million (first week)
Not even “The Wink” could save this one.
5) An American Haunting: $3.6 million ($10.9 million, second week)
“Haunting,” on the other hand, only needs to make another $3 million to break even. There’s a lesson in here somewhere, but damned if we can figure out what it is.
We’re pleased that “M:I III” won out over “Poseidon,” but we still say “Brick” trumps everything.
