Based on Sunday’s estimates, courtesy of boxofficemojo.com:
1) Cars: $31.1 million ($114.5 million, second week)
The good news: it held the #1 spot for two weeks. The bad news: it fell off 48% from its opening week. The word is getting out: Pixar laid its first egg. Go see “Over the Hedge” again instead.
2) Nacho Libre: $27.5 million (first week)
For God’s sake, is anyone going to make a decent movie this month?
3) The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift: $24 million (first week)
Two movies in the top five about racing, and “Talladega Nights” is on the horizon. It’s a great big NASCAR world.
4) The Lake House: $13.6 million (first week)
Or, “Give the audience a happy ending, no matter how implausible or insulting it may be.”
5) The Break-Up: $9.5 million ($91.9 million, third week)
Chicago deserves to have better movies shot there than “The Lake House” and this.
Only two months to the day until “Snakes on a Plane.” And still no trailer. They’re killing us.
