The movie everyone's been waiting for[1] made its way to theaters this week, and it did...okay. Snakes on a Plane brought in about $14 million, good for second place behind Yet Another Will Ferrell Comedy. Given the early buzz, I would have expected it to do more business (say in the 20 million range), but given that the movie apparently was pretty cheap to produce, it'll bring in a profit, albeit not a big one.In other box office news, Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Boatloads of Cash crossed $400 million this weekend, and it's going to overtake Spider-Man's gross within a week or so. Whom did Orlando Bloom sell his soul to, is what I wanna know!
Other than that, not a whole lot of interest:
- Oliver Stone's 9/11 flick World Trade Center is doing rather decently
- Clerks II came and went without making too much money
- An Inconvenient Truth is now the third highest grossing documentary with about $22 million in the bank. It might make it to $24 million, but not much beyond that
- Miami Vice is doing decently, but could have been much bigger. Breaks my heart, Michael Mann is one of my favourite directors!
- British flick The Descent has been out quite a while on DVD in Europe and opened only a few weeks ago in the US. Usually it's the other way around
[1] Oh, c'mon, pretend.
