I've said it before and I'll say it again, September is the worst month of the year for movies. Movie Website Updates for August 26 - September 1Īnother busy week with plenty of top-notch films to chose from In the end, however, it was a two-way race between The Black Dahlia - Official Site and Stranger than Fiction - Official Site with the former site winning out by a narrow margin. In the meantime, here are the studio estimates for the weekend numbers. Perhaps even in the early morning hours of tomorrow. The DVD release column will be published late tonight, very late tonight. It's the Labor Day today, which means there will be a one day delay in a few regular columns including the weekend wrap up and the per theatre charts. Adding in Monday and the box office reached $129 million, up 9.2% from last year. While the 3-day total was 1.4% lower than last weekend, the $102 million it earned was 8.7% better than the same weekend last year. Labor Day long weekend is the official end of the movie summer season and this year it ended on a high note. Invincible Remains so as New Releases Struggle Needless to say, the overall box office was down this weekend, by a massive 31.3% from the last weekend.Ĭompared to the same weekend last year the decline was smaller at 18.2%, but that was a more devastating result in the overall scheme of things. To put that into perspective, if that was earned by just one film this weekend, it would only place fourth on the list of 2006's biggest openings. Overall the total box office was a mere $71 million. The second weekend in September is quite often the slowest weekend of the year, and that appears to be the case here. You may call this is a result of a pro- Canada bias, and you would be right. In many ways Gandhi - Two-Disc Special Edition - Buy from Amazon was the best choice on this week's list, but I'm going with Trailer Park Boys - Buy from Amazon.ca (and I also recommend the massive box set as well). So were the two Canadian entries, Trailer Park Boys - Buy from Amazon.ca and C.R.A.Z.Y. Sure, the two spotlight films on this week's list, Shut Up and Sing - Buy from Amazon and The Prestige - Buy from Amazon, are great, but the DVDs leave a lot to be desired. While there are plenty worth talking about, few combine a high quality movie with top-notch extras.īecause of this, it was hard to pick a DVD Pick of the Week. Babel opened with $8.73 million, just a fraction ahead of last week's winner, The Departed, which pulled in $8.58 million during its second week of release. New releases dominated the top five including taking the number one spot with Babel. ![]() Babel is Top Rental, but is Flushed Away on Sales Chart
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