Box Office Recap
This week saw horror films performing, well, horrifically. While most grown adults were being dragged into theaters by their tots to see Horton, 10,000 B.C. pulled a decent second place with $16.4M for a cumulative $61.2M in two weeks. The film also drew in an astounding $38M from international markets, making it the biggest overseas take so far this year for a Hollywood Flick. Check out our cast interview from '10,000 B.C.'!
Neil (The Descent) Marshall?s newest endeavor, Doomsday, brought in a paltry $4.7M in its opening weekend. Apparently Marshall thought that if he mixed every genre he could ever think of into one film, fans from all of those genres would come in droves?he was wrong! We have a print interview with Neil Marshall ready and waiting for you to check out.
Finally, of note, in 22nd place (yes, the box office goes down that far) was Michael Haneke?s Funny Games, which only brought in $520,000 total! What an outrage! The film only played on 239 screens, so it did have a per screen average of $1,799. We were able to conduct an exclusive interview with Brady Corbet and Michael Pitt. If you enjoy good horror, trust me, you?ll do well to find an arthouse theater and go see this flick.
