Box Office Report

Posted by bob in Films, News on August 24th, 2008

Death Race debuted this weekend, scoring an estimated $12,293,000 despite hostile reviews.  The Universal film underperformed, much like Star Wars: The Clone Wars which saw a 61.3% dropoff after its debut.  Clearly, people are done with the wars.

Fox’s Mirrors also had a big drop off, 56.3%, for a weekend gross of $4,875,000 and two week total of $20,075,000.

Other genre films had so-so weekends including The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, beginning to wrap up its run already with $4,069,000, bringing it to a total of $93,812,000.  After four weeks and not cracking $100 million shows the franchise may be running out of steam after all.

Showing growing strength, though, is Transsiberian, which continues to play on only a few screens but the per screen average of $4,157 remains impressive.  After six weeks in an extremely limited run, it has brought in $530,000.