Apr 14 2008 'Prom Night' is Prom King! (Of the Weekend Box Office!)
1. Prom Night - After nearly doubling the profits of its closest competitor with a $22.7 million weekend, I'm ready to concede to the rest of the committee: fine, maybe Slasher Horror was a better Prom Night theme than A Night Beneath the Stars.
2. Street Kings - Coming in a distant second with $12 million, apparently being king of the streets doesn't translate to being king of the box office! Or king of anything else, for that matter. Just the streets.
3. 21 - Falling to $11 million, I'll now likely never get the chance to point how funny and coincidental it is that a movie named 21 made $21 million in a weekend.
4. Nim's Island - $9 million, and I just realized they're pretending "Nim" is a legitimate name. No it isn't. Is it?
5. Leatherheads - A weak $6.2 million leads me to believe there may be a smaller cross-over group between "romantic comedy fans" and "old fashioney football fans" than originally thought.
Weekend Box Office [Box Office Mojo]
Apr 7 2008 '21' Wins Weekend Box Office Again
1. 21 - Another first-place week of $15.1 million paves the way for future odds-beating gambling movies, like Cracking Keno, or If You're Betting Last in Contestant's Row, You Should Probably Just Go with One Dollar.
2. Leatherheads - $13.5 million, which seems like a strangely high number for a movie about a minor Ninja Turtles supporting character.
3. Nim's Island - $13.3 million, the strongest opening ever for a family movie about crippling psychoses.
4. Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! - Dr. Seuss is surely rolling in his grave after this $9.1 million weekend put Horton at over $130 million. Especially since his estate just purchased that diamond-encrusted corpse rotisserie.
5. The Ruins - $7.8 million--the most made from ruins since the team of Chad Bosse and Jennifer Weeks won a pair of Huffy 10-speeds and a Sony Walkman on Legends of the Hidden Temple.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Apr 1 2008 '21' Wins Weekend, in the Same Way One Might Win at Blackjack
1. 21 - $24.1 million, at least $240 of which came from repeat viewings by one former MIT nerd trying to come to terms with his being portrayed by Kate Bosworth.
2. Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! - A $17.7 million weekend wasn't enough to beat 21, but at least its toys are still selling better than the Ante Uppin', Sewer Swimmin' Kevin Spacey action figure
3. Superhero Movie - $9.5 million! Get it? It's a parody of how much more Spider-Man made.
4. Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns - Tyler Perry's $7.5 million.
5. Drillbit Taylor - $5.7 million, mined directly from the shallow quarry of Owen Wilson's dwindling acting credibility.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Nov 21 2007 '21' Poster is Like Blackjack, See?
While it's a fairly obvious poster design for a movie about MIT students taking on blackjack, I am somewhat surprised they withheld the faces of big stars Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne in order to focus on a genetic hybrid of Jared Leto and Millionaire-era Regis Philbin.
21 Official Poster Revealed [ONTD]
