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The toð two films in the CIS Box Office list from last week retained their ðositions this week. The absolute leader remained the James Bond film Quantum of Solace (BVSPR), starring Daniel Craig as Agent 007. The film grossed $3,809,969 from 750 screens in its second weekend (61% less than in its first), for a total of $15,673,085 in 11 days. The animated hit Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (UPI) stayed in second place, with its 710 screens yielding $2,151,021 in its third weekend. Total box office for the Madagascar sequel was $39,399,702 in 18 days. New releases formed a cluster from third to sixth place. The best debut was Ghost [Domovoy] (Central Partnership), the thriller with the all-star cast of Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Mashkov and Chulpan Khamatova. The $3 million film put $1,233,581 onto its account from 410 screens in four days. In the next line down was the French-Canadian-Italian gangster drama Mesrine: Part 1 — Death Instinct (Top Film), starring Vincent Cassel as the famous 1970s French crime figure Jacques Mesrine. Jean-François Richet’s film simultaneously set two records for its distributor Top Film – widest release (345 screens) and four-day gross ($1,170,019). Having both cleared $1 million in their opening weekend, Ghost and the first installment of Mesrine brought the total of “millionaire” films in CIS distribution this year to 130. In fifth place was Kevin Smith’s romantic comedy Zack and Miri Make a Porno (Cascade), starring Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen, which grossed $473,955 from 192 screens and in sixth place was High School Musical 3: Senior Year, which was the sequel to the popular telefilms High School Musical (2006) and High School Musical 2 (2007). The third film, which was directed by Kenny Ortega and stars Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale, grossed $353,002 from 138 screens.
Five more new films started this week. Ninth and tenth places went to new Russian films – Yuri Grymov’s thrilling drama Strangers [Chuzhiye] (Caroprokat) and Alexei Gherman, Jr.’s period drama Paper Soldier [Bumaznhy Soldat] (Paradise), with Merhab Ninidze and Chulpan Khamatova. The latter film won two prizes at this year’s Venice Film Festival – for Best Director and Best Cinematography. Strangers ($2 million budget) grossed $124,536 from 106 screens and Paper Soldier (($2.5 million budget) grossed $89,238 from 51 screens.
The French animal docudrama Meche Blanche, les aventures du petit castor (CP Classic/Premium) had to make do with 14th place (25 screens, $34 863) and master British director Mike Leigh’s Happy-go-lucky (West), which won a Best Actress award at the last Berlin Film Festival for Sally Hopkins’s performance, was in 19th place (five screens, $17,775). Finally, 27th place was taken up by the French musical romantic comedy Modern Love (Premium), which does not have any thing to do with Richard Curtis’s 2003 film Love Actually. Stéphane Kazandjian’s film, which stars Alexandra Lamy, Stéphane Rousseau and Bérénice Bejo grossed $6,098 from three screens.
Total CIS box office from November 13–16 was $10,179,603, which is 46.4% less than the figure for the previous weekend. |
