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New Hollywood films occuðied the he ðoð two slots in the CIS box office chart. The best-ðerforming of these was Ðaul W. S. Anderson’s Death Race, which is a remake of Ðaul Bartels’s 1975 cult classic Death Race 2000, which starred David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone. The new version, which stars Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Ian McShane and Tyrese Gibson, grossed $3,254,276 in its first four days from 427 screens. Eric Brevig’s sci-fi adventure Journey to the Center of the Earth (Caro Premier), starring Brendan Fraser and Josh Hutcherson, began its box office journey in second place. The film is being screened in three different formats (conventional film, digital 3D with the use of glasses and IMAX) and its 365 screens brought it $2,994,620. Despite being second, Journey had the best per-screen average of the week – $8,204 (compared to Death Race’s $7 856). Last week’s leader, the Nicholas Cage actioner Bangkok Dangerous (Paradise), fell to third place. In its second weekend, it grossed $1 193 143 (42% less than its first) from 428 screens, for an 11-day total of $3 240 925.
New films also took fourth, fifth and sixth place. The most successful of these was Griffin Dunne’s British-American romantic comedy The Accidental Husband (Pyramida). The film, which stars Uma Thurman, Colin Firth and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, grossed $751,815 from 220 screens. Fifth place went to the American teen comedy College (Luxor) starring Drake Bell. Its release in the CIS is also its European premiere and it grossed $307, 707 from 178 screens. In the next line down was the Russian animated fairy tale The New Adventures of Babka Yozhka [Noviye priklyucheniya Babki Yozhki] (Panorama). This film is a sequel to Babka Yozhka and Others [Babka Yozhka i drugiye], which was distributed by Panorama this spring and brought the company $720,000 (the total budget for The New Adventures of Babka Yozhka and Babka Yozhka and Others is $1.2 million). The new film grossed $285,859 from 160 screens.
Two more new films did not make it into the top ten. Captive [Plenniy], Alexei Uchitel’s drama about the war in Chechnya starring Vyacheslav Krikunov took up 18th place (100 screens, $53,755) and the French crime drama Fissures (Starlet Media), which grossed $2,645, had to make do with 38th place.
In addition to Death Race and Journey to the Center of the Earth, the German animated film Lissi and the Wild Emperor (Luxor) passed the $1 million mark. Consequently, the “millionaire’s club” is now up to 109 films.
Total CIS box office from September 11–14 was $10,856,707, which was 59.9% more than the figure for the previous week. |
