Based on Sunday’s estimates, courtesy of boxofficemojo.com:
1) Cars: $62.8 million (first week)
George Carlin plays a hippy dippy VW bug named Fillmore. Where do they come up with this stuff?
2) The Break-Up: $20.5 million ($74.1 million, second week)
Vince Vaughn says that whatever baby wants, baby gets. Baby wanted a good movie.
3) X-Men: The Last Stand: $15.6 million ($201.7 million, third week)
Well, if you’re going to kill a franchise, then perhaps hiring Brett Ratner to direct the last installment isn’t so terrible an idea.
4) The Omen: $15.5 million ($35.7 million, first week)
The Anti-Christ has eyes on the US Presidency? Depending on whom you ask, that either just happened or is currently happening.
5) Over the Hedge: $10.3 million ($130.3 million, fourth week)
Remember, when that Doberman down the street comes charging at you with slobber a-fling, what it’s really thinking is “Play,” not “Disembowel.”
Skipping 6) and 7)…
8) Mission: Impossible III: $3 million ($127.5 million, sixth week)
Get your resumes ready, Paramount staffers. The bloodletting begins now.
