Wedding Celebrations
The Age
Thursday August 7, 2003
As the box office shows, just about everyone loves a wedding, reports Lawrie Zion
The Wedding, the third in the American Pie series, has taken the biggest portion of the box-office cake in its first weekend at the turnstiles in the United States.
With Friday-to-Sunday earnings of $US33.36 million ($51.47 million), the comedy, which opens on our screens today, grabbed the top spot from last week's number one, Spy Kids 3D, although it did about $US11 million ($16.96 million) less business in its opening frame than the second American Pie film.
But this was still almost 10 times the result achieved by the panned Gigli. The $US54 million ($83.29 million) romantic comedy thriller, which stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, could manage no higher than eighth place, taking just $US3.75 million ($5.78 million), a result that led one executive associated with the film's production to comment: ``We could never really sell this movie. I can't agree with the old adage of there being no such thing as bad publicity." Australian critics and audiences will get their chance to judge the movie in October.
Meanwhile, on Australian screens, Terminator 3 has made it three weeks on the trot as the number-one film in the country - two more than it managed in the US - after holding out the new release Identity, which debuted in the runner-up slot, but actually did proportionately better as it was showing in fewer locations.
The other new release to feature in the top five was Gwyneth Paltrow's feature, View From the Top, which opened in fourth place.
Bad Eggs, despite falling from third to fifth, held up well in its second
week, dropping just 23 per cent from its opening frame - the lowest percentage
fall of any top-10 film.
MOVIES TOP 10 AUSTRALIA JULY 31-AUGUST 3 1 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines GROSS $1.7m TOTAL $14.9m 2 Identity GROSS $1.3m TOTAL $1.3m 3 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle GROSS $570,820 TOTAL $17.7m 4 View from the Top GROSS $510,429 TOTAL $512,263 5 Bad Eggs GROSS $497,200 TOTAL $1.3m 6 Bruce Almighty GROSS $339,895 TOTAL $19.8m 7 Danny Deck Chair GROSS $326,855 TOTAL $387,251 8 Daddy Day Care GROSS $223,071 TOTAL $14.3m 9 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind GROSS $215,241 TOTAL $680,518 10 Confidence GROSS $190,794 TOTAL $721,482 US AUGUST 1-3 1 American Pie: The Wedding GROSS $51.5m TOTAL $51.5m 2 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over GROSS $30.1m TOTAL $106m 3 Pirates of the Caribbean GROSS $29m TOTAL $324.2m 4 Seabiscuit GROSS $27.2m TOTAL $76.1m 5 Bad Boys II GROSS $19.6m TOTAL $172.2m 6 Tomb Raider 2 GROSS $17.4m TOTAL $65.7m 7 Finding Nemo GROSS $5.8m TOTAL $495.3m 8 Gigli GROSS $5.7m TOTAL $5.7m 9 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen GROSS $4.9m TOTAL $91.1m 10 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines GROSS $4.4m TOTAL $221m SOURCE MPDAA, WWW.LEESMOVIEINFO.NET
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