BOX OFFICE: SHIA #1, KIRK CAMERON #4
09.29.08
The phrase “Box Office” still gives Kirk Cameron the chills.
Shia LaBeouf’s thrilling thriller Eagle Eye topped the box office with $29.4 million dollars, no doubt because of all those good reviews. Meanwhile, the big story was Kirk Cameron’s Fireproof (tagline: Never leave your partner’s behind). Costing just $500K and opening on 839 screens, the Sherwood Baptist Church joint rode a Nigerian-style marketing campaign to a $6.5 million gross, landing in fourth place behind Lakeview Terrace.
It had the year’s highest grossing opening weekend return of any film (except 3-D Hannah Montana) released on 1,000 screens or less. Faith-based “Action Squads” bought up blocks of tickets. [DHD]
Oh boy, I can’t wait to watch the big studios try to cash in on this one. It’ll be just like that one movie with Steve Martin and Queen Latifah, but instead of an old white guy learning how to dance and rap, a bunch of old Jews will learn to how to say “I love Jesus” in tongues.
1. “Eagle Eye,” $29.2 million.
2. “Nights in Rodanthe,” $13.6 million.
3. “Lakeview Terrace,” $7 million.
4. “Fireproof,” $6.5 million.
5. “Burn After Reading,” $6.2 million.
6. “Igor,” $5.5 million.
7. “Righteous Kill,” $3.803 million.
8. “My Best Friend’s Girl,” $3.8 million.
9. “Miracle at St. Anna,” $3.5 million.
10. “Tyler Perry‘s the Family That Preys,” $3.2 million. [Yahoo]
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In related news, Willie Aames is one step closer to bringing Bibleman to the big screen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEKwrI5MYIM
If they’re gonna do any more religious flicks this year, they need to just pull out all the stops and do one about revelations. Oh, wait, they are…..W has it all.
Meanwhile, Schadenfreude Sloth is hanging out around #9 on the list, pointing his claw and slowly yet derisively laughing.
In Obama’s America, every black man will have enough money to see Miracle at St. Anna twice.
I was responsible for $12.1 million of Rodanthe’s weekend gross.
The Mighty Feklahr rented Saw this weekend, does that count as going to the movies?
That counts as encouragement.
There is a church near my house that has been promoting “Fireproofing your marriage” I didnt realize they used this poster, or that it was a marketing tie in.
In other news, I am completely oblivious to stuff
Faith-Based “Action Squads” ?
You figure the KKK wouldn’t want to see a movie about people who put out fires so much as those who start them.
The 700 Club gave this movie 3 Hail Marys and 2 Our Fathers, the highest rating ever given a movie by that show.
I once spent a couple Nights in Rodanthe. I came home with herpes.
That wasn’t Rodanthe, that was your Mom.
Boosh!
Sorry, he was off looking at Jew-girl porn. What did He miss?
Fek just proved, its never too early for porn.
It’s not as easy to find kosher porn as one might think!
Not as hard as it is to locate Halal porn. It’s very difficult to tell the difference between porn and terrorist training camp footage.
Stone, that’s easy; in the porn, the sheep look much more nervous than in the terrorist training camp footage.
new up, less jew porn :(
Didn’t anyone go see “Choke”? i would have, but i spent $90 on a bottle of absinthe Friday night and i woke up Saturday night just in time to catch Shane Mosley knock out Ricardo Mayorga at 2:59 of the 12th round.
i enjoyed seeing such a different-flavored movie on the regular, big screen … certainly better than seeing people’s faces getting Sawed off (for the fifth time)