DISNEY - WEEKEND AFTER THANKSGIVING IS A TURKEY

WEEKEND AFTER THANKSGIVING IS A TURKEY

On the weekend following the Thanksgiving holiday, when the box office ordinarily takes a dip, attendance reached its lowest point in over a decade, box office analysts observed Monday. The top film, Disney's Enchanted, held the top spot for the second straight week with just $16.4 million. In its third week, Paramount's Beowulf took second place with only half that amount. The only new film to be released over the weekend, Awake, from MGM and the Weinstein Co., took in a paltry $5.9 million.

The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Media by Numbers (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date):
1. Enchanted, Disney, $16,403,316, 2 Wks. ($70,000,316); 2. Beowulf, Paramount, $8,208,565, 3 Wks. ($68,939,986); 3. This Christmas, Sony, $7,941,068, 2 Wks. ($36,431,987); 4. Hitman, 20th Century Fox, $6,021,927, 2 Wks. ($30,426,328); 5. Awake, MGM, $5,856,872, 1 Wks. ($5,856,872); 6. Fred Claus, Warner Bros., $5,501,437, 4 Wks. ($59,784,054); 7. August Rush, Warner Bros., $5,021,435, 2 Wks. ($20,225,907); 8. The Mist, MGM, $4,553,008, 2 Wks. ($19,563,276); 9. Bee Movie, Paramount, $4,444,798, 5 Wks. ($117,616,494); 10. No Country for Old Men, Miramax, $4,385,290, 3 Wks. ($22,914,851)


04/12/2007