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MOSCOW. (Russian Film Business Today) – Timur Bekmambetov’s stylish and action-packed comic book adaptation Wanted (UPI) stayed on top of the CIS box office chart, taking $6,019,241 from 858 screens in its second weekend (44% than its first) and breaking the $20 million barrier. The film, which stars James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman grossed $21,225,016 in 11 days. Accordingly, Wanted became the most wanted foreign film in Russia this year in terms of grosses and was the third-highest grossing film after another Bekmambetov film, Irony of Fate: The Sequel (20th Century Fox CIS) and the parody comedy The Very Best Film (Caroprokat), which grossed $49.9 million and $27.6 million respectively. Pixar and Disney’s computer animated robot movie WALL-E (BVSPR) started in second place, having grossed $5,199,327 from 615 screens. The film’s average per screen – $8,454 – turned out to be the best of all the films of week. By comparison, Wanted brought in only an average of $7,015 per screen. WALL-E joined the ranks of films that have made more than $1 million this box office year, bringing the total number of these films to 87. All of the other films in the chart were far behind the aforementioned leaders. Down to third place after a stint in second was the romantic comedy Sex and the City (Caro Premier), starring the inimitable Sarah Jessica Parker. The film’s powers of seduction are fading fast – it grossed $640,108 from 282 screens in its third weekend (down 57%). Its 18-day total was $8,333,705. Another comedy starring Sarah Jessica Parker debuted in the next line down – Smart People (Top Film), where Parker was in the company of Dennis Quaid and Ellen Page. Smart People made other people at 128 screens part with a total of $211,712. In fifth place down from fourth, Kung Fu Panda punched up $200,484 (down 61%) from 185 screens, for a 32-day total of $20,506,840. In this year’s list of the top grossing films in CIS, Kung Fu Panda currently ranks forth. Apart from WALL-E and Smart People, two more new films made it into the top ten. In seventh place was Igor Voloshin’s drama Nirvana (Nashe Kino) with Olga Sutulova, Maria Shalyayeva and Artur Smolyaninov. Showing on 91 screens, with a $2 million budget, the film has put $89,790 in its piggybank so far. In ninth place was Paul Haggis’s Iraq-era military detective yarn In the Valley of Elah (West), which garnered Tommy Lee Jones an Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. The film, which co-stars Charlize Theron and Susan Sarandon grossed $64,937 from 51 screens. Twelfth place went to Funny Games U. S. (CP Classic) Michael Haneke’s American remake of his own 1997 film treatise on violence. The new version, starring Naomi Watts, made $21 351 from 10 screens. Finally, in 16th place was Harmony Korine’s Mr. Lonely (Cinema Without Frontiers), a U.S.-British-Irish-French co-production starring Diego Luna and Samantha Morton, which pulled in $11,129 from four screens. Total CIS box office for the first July weekend (July 3-6) was $12,976,998 – down 7.6% compared with the previous weekend’s figure. |
