“Ocean’s Thirteen” Takes Top Box Office Haul
Posted June 10, 2007 12:00 pm.
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- In a summer of trilogies, ” Ocean’s Thirteen” kept the gravy train running with a top box-office haul of $37.1 million in its first week.
The third of George Clooney and Brad Pitt‘s casino-heist romps, edged Disney’s ” Pirates of the Caribbean : At World’s End,” the No. 1 movie the previous two weekends, which in its third go-round fell to second-place with $21.3 million. Meanwhile, Sony’s ” Surf’s Up,” the animated adventure about surfing penguins featuring the voices of Shia LaBeouf and Jeff Bridges, came out of the box in fourth-place with $18 million, less than half of the $41.5 million opening weekend of last fall’s animated-penguin hit ” Happy Feet.”
“Surf’s Up” drew solid reviews, but audiences likely viewed it as a “Happy Feat” retread, which is ironic considering ” Shrek The Third” and ” Spider-Man 3” are two of the summers biggest films, though each fell off dramatically in its second week. And continuing with the theme, Lionsgate’s gory horror sequel ” Hostel: Part II,” about rich people who pay to kill victims in grisly ways, opened at No. 6 with $8.75 million but fell well short of the original’s debut.
“It’s really become an opening-weekend business, but with all the competition, in the long haul, they just don’t have the legs that their predecessors did,” said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers. “Studios really have to rely on those worldwide grosses to make up the difference in the long run.”
Here’s the rest of the weekend’s top 10, with all figures estimated according to Media By Numbers LLC.
1. “Ocean’s Thirteen,” $37.1 million.
2. “Pirates of the Caribbean : At World’s End,” $21.3 million.
3. ” Knocked Up,” $20 million.
4. “Surf’s Up,” $18 million.
5. “Shrek the Third,” $15.75 million.
6. “Hostel: Part II,” $8.75 million.
7. ” Mr. Brooks,” $5 million.
8. “Spider-Man 3,” $4.4 million.
9. ” Waitress,” $1.65 million.
10. ” Disturbia,” $550,000.
