Monday Morning Box Office: The War On Easter
You've returned the bunny costume to the rental house and somehow recovered your entire deposit despite some stubborn blood stains. You deserve the box office numbers!
1. Scary Movie 4—$41 million
Moviegoers celebrated Jesus Christ's death and resurrection by jamming into America's true house of worship. the multiplex, in record numbers, worshipping in front of cutting-edge parodies of Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah's couch and those gay cowboys from that movie whose title currently escapes us. (Brokedown Palace? That sounds close.) We didn't get around to seeing SM4, so we don't know if they tied in to the holiday weekend with a topical bit of slapstick involving Leslie Nielsen's inability to stay nailed to a cross.
2. Ice Age: The Meltdown—$20 million
3. The Benchwarmers—$10 million
4. The Wild—$9.6 million
With the computer-animated talking animals genre accounting for $30 million on its own this weekend, one wonders exactly how much money Sony might have left on the table by not replacing The Benchwarmers' Rob Schneider and David Spade with a CGI beaver and ferret, respectively.
5. Take the Lead—$6.7 million
Antonio Banderas Fun Fabrication™: For the last five years, the Spanish hearthrob has been carrying on a secret plural marriage with Meg Ryan, Goldie Hawn, and a joint compound bucket full of surgical-grade lip collagen.