‘Fantastic Four’ Rides $57M Wave to Top
Posted June 18, 2007 12:00 pm.
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Hollywood’s superhero foursome is still fantastic at the box office. The 20th Century Fox sequel ” Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer” debuted as the No. 1 weekend flick with $57.4 million in sales, slightly beating the $56.1 million opening of “Fantastic Four” two years ago, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Meanwhile, Warner Bros. film “Nancy Drew” premiered with a so-so $7.1 million to finish at No. 7. And opening in narrower release was the thriller “DOA: Dead or Alive,” an adaptation of the martial-arts video game that pulled in just $232,000.
Despite the big opening for “Fantastic Four,” Hollywood revenues slipped for the third straight weekend. The top 12 movies took in $138.8 million, down 4 per cent from the same weekend last year, when “Cars,” “Nacho Libre” and “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift” led with a combined $86 million.
The sequel reunites the quartet of astronauts-turned-mutant-superheroes, played by Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis and Chris Evans. This time, the comic-book heroes join forces with archenemy Dr. Doom (Julian McMahon) to take down the Silver Surfer, an emissary leading a planet-destroying entity to Earth.
Here’s the rest of the weekend’s top 10, with all figures estimated according to Media By Numbers LLC.
1. “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,” $57.4 million.
2. ” Ocean’s Thirteen,” $19.1 million.
3. ” Knocked Up,” $14.5 million.
4. “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” $12 million.
5. “Surf’s Up,” $9.3 million.
6. ” Shrek the Third,” $9 million.
7. “Nancy Drew,” $7.1 million.
8. “Hostel: Part II,” $3 million.
9. “Mr. Brooks,” $2.8 million.
10. “Spider-Man 3,” $2.5 million.
Photo Courtesy: Getty Images/Max Nash – World Premiere of ‘ The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer’, in London’s Leicester Square.
