Monday Morning Box Office: Five Million Per 'Brother'
Like rolling over on Monday morning and discovering that the struggling actress you thought you'd blown off after that fifth tequila shot is drooling on your pillow, the weekend box office numbers:
1. Four Brothers—$20.7 million
Even on a weekend where there's nothing you're excited to see (three times at Wedding Crashers was more than enough), you still find yourself wandering into the multiplex, bent on seeing something, anything. And this weekend, that something, anything was Four Brothers.
It would be easy to divide the box office take evenly between the titular brothers and call it a day at about $5 million per, but the breakdown was probably closer to this:
Mark Wahlberg: $15 million
Tyrese: $3 million
Andre 3000: $2.7 million
The Other Guy: Just happy to be working, dude.
2. Skeleton Key—$15.8 million
Kate Hudson's agents are probably spending the morning furiously working the phones, trying to increase her quote by noting that she can take a movie straight to second place (all by herself!) on a lackluster weekend.
3. The Dukes of Hazzard—$13 million
We're still trying to decide if Dukes is eventually worth a slot in the Netflix queue or whether we'd rather wait for cable. It's feeling a little cable-y right now.
4. Wedding Crashers—$12 million
Number of (estimated) box office dollars it's taken in so far: $164 million
Number of times we've heard Owen Wilson's WC line, "Some people say we only use 10 percent of our brains, but I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts" in an advertisement: 164 million. Spooky, no?
5. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo—$10 million
Movie Executive 101: Trying to build a movie franchise around Rob Schneider is not as great an idea as it seems after that fourth hit of airplane glue.