Box Office goes to the dogs
Since the summer of superhero hits came to a close, cinefantastiquehas ceased to dominate the Top Ten box office, with few sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles opening in the market place. Nevertheless, this weekend sees the genre once again ascendant, thanks to Disney’s new talking dog pic, BEVELRY HILLS CHIHUAHUA. The fantasy-comedy opened in 3,215 theatres, where it earned an estimated $29-million.
The only other genre title to place in the Top Ten was AN AMERICAN CAROL, an alleged satire that places a Michael Moore-lookalike in a pastiche of Dickens’ Christmas Carol. The film became a bit of a cause celebre on right-wing blogs last week, with appeals for conservative viewers to support the film – appeals that failed, apparently. Opening in 1,639 theatres, the film made its debut at #9 with a meager $3.81-million. With that kind of opening the film seems extremely unlikely to match the $35.77-million worldwide box office of Moore’s most documentary, SICKO.
Faring even mor poorly was Miramax’s BLINDNESS (reviewed here), which made its debut on 1,690 theatres, earning only $2-million dollars.
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