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Peter Berg's suðerhero comedy blockbuster Hancock (BVSPR), starring Will Smith and Charlize Theron, had a triumðhant debut at the CIS box office. The film has Smith playing a most unusual superhero and it had the best opening weekend among foreign films this year, grossing $11,773,439 from 645 screens in its first four days and easily taking the top spot in the box office chart. Hancock’s average gross per screen was $18,253, which is not only the best such figure out of all the week’s films but the second best this year after that of The Very Best Film (Caroprokat), which had an average take of $23,482 per screen in its opening weekend.
The leader of the last two weeks, Timur Bekmambetov’s comic-book actioner Wanted (UPI) dropped to third place in its third weekend, putting $1,442,181 (76% less than its second weekend) in its piggybank from 704 screens, for an 18-day total of $24 822 496. The computer-animated robot movie WALL-E held second place. Its 615 screens brought it $1 758 561 in its second weekend (a 66% drop). WALL-E’s total gross in 11 reached $9,066,676.
Brian Robbins’ fanciful comedy Meet Dave (20th Century Fox CIS), starring Eddie Murphy, started in fourth place as grossed $1,166,230 from 442 screens. The Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Ray Liotta starrer Hero Wanted (Top Film) was in the next line down with $176,327 from 152 screens. Two more new films were in 13th and 20th place respectively – Sergei Popov’s $5 million criminal drama Cold Sun (Luxor) starring Sergei Garmash and Tatiana Yakovenko ($18,754 from 40 screens) and the comedy Glory to the Filmmaker! (Cinema Without Frontiers) from master Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano, with him also in the lead role (four screens, $5617).
Hancock and Meet Dave joined the ranks of films that have made more than $1 million each this year at the CIS box office, bringing their total to 89.
Total CIS box office from July 10–13 was $16 892 022, which is 30.2% more than the previous week’s figure. |
