Archive for the ‘Box Office History’ Category

1. Prom Night (2008) – $22.7M

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Prom Night (2008)

2. Street Kings – $12.0M

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Keanu Reeves stars in this action-packed film with a stellar supporting cast. Detective Ludlow (Reeves) is on the hunt to discover who is behind the death of his former partner. FANTASTIC FOUR\'s Chris Evans costars as Ludlow\'s new partner, along with Oscar winner Forest Whitaker and Emmy winner Hugh Laurie also playing major roles. TRAINING DAY scribe David Ayer directs this cop thriller with a script co-written by novelist James Ellroy.

3. 21 – $11.0M

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Inspired by a true story, 21 mixes Las Vegas casino wheeling and dealing with college-kid angst: think OCEANS ELEVEN via THE PAPER CHASE. Kevin Spacey is crafty MIT professor Micky Rosa, who trains brainiac students to count cards and then flies them out to Vegas to raid the blackjack tables between classes. At first they rake in a bundle, but then catch the unwanted attention of tough-guy security chief, Cole Williams (Laurence Fishburne) who wants to prove himself before he\'s replaced by face recognition software. Super math genius Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) originally joins the ring in order to come up with the $300,000 he needs for tuition money, but he\'s also gaga over the ring\'s resident babe, Jill (Kate Bosworth). When he finds out Professor Rosa hasn\'t been dealing entirely from a straight deck, Ben\'s high-end shopping spree dreams turn sour (though card counting is not illegal) and the battle of wits is on, no second chances given. Spacey is in his preternaturally calm, morally compromised element, stealing scenes left and right; Fishburne brings the hangdog depth; and everything bubbles over the 24-karat rocks, courtesy of director Robert Luketic (LEGALLY BLONDE). 21 is based on the bestseller BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE by Ben Mezrich.

4. Nim’s Island – $9.0M

Monday, April 14th, 2008
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE actress Abigail Breslin stars with Jodie Foster and 300\'s Gerard Butler in this fantasy adventure. An isolated island is home to a young girl and her father, but when he disappears, she connects with an author in a far off place who may be able to help her find him. NIM\'S ISLAND is based on the children\'s novel by Wendy Orr.

5. Leatherheads – $6.2M

Monday, April 14th, 2008
In 1925, Dodge Connolly is a charming, brash football hero who is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums. But after the players lose their sponsor and the entire league faces certain collapse, Dodge convinces a college football star to join his ragtag ranks. The captain hopes his latest move will help the struggling sport finally capture the country\'s attention. Welcome to the team Carter Rutherford, America\'s favorite son. A golden-boy war hero who single-handedly forced multiple German soldiers to surrender in WWI, Carter has dashing good looks and unparalleled speed on the field. This new champ is almost too good to be true, and Lexie Littleton aims to prove that\'s the case. A cub journalist playing in the big leagues, Lexie is a spitfire newswoman who suspects there are holes in Carter\'s war story. But while she digs, the two teammates start to become serious off-field rivals for her fickle affections. As the new game of pro-football becomes less like the freewheeling sport he knew and loved, Dodge must both fight to keep his guys together and to get the girl of his dreams. Finding that love and football have a surprisingly similar playbook, however, he has one maneuver he will save just for the fourth quarter.

6. Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! – $6.0M

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Based on the 1954 children\'s book by Dr. Seuss, HORTON HEARS A WHO! is a 2008 computer-animated Hollywood update of the beloved illustrated tale. Horton (voiced by Jim Carrey), a thoughtful elephant living in the jungle of Nool, discovers that an entire society, Whoville, rests inside a speck. He gently rests it on a clover flower, and searches for a place where it will be safe from the perils of the larger world. Establishing contact with Whoville\'s befuddled mayor (Steve Carell), Horton faces disbelief from his animal friends, including his blue mouse pal, Morton (Seth Rogen), and unwittingly incurs the wrath of an uptight kangaroo (Carol Burnett), setting the playful pachyderm on a journey to the most remote parts of Nool, with malicious vultures and monkeys not far behind.<br><br>Executive produced by Chris Wedge, the creator of ICE AGE, and directed by Steve Martino and Jimmy Hayward, this CGI take on Seuss (aka Theodore Geisel) is the first 21st-century adaptation to hew closely to the artist\'s true spirit and visual style. While Carrey, Carell, Burnett, and the rest of the vocal talent (also including Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, and Jonah Hill) contribute lively performances, the animation is the real focus of the film, displaying a stunning array of colorful characters and landscapes that capture Seuss\'s wonderfully whimsical aesthetic. Though Seuss loyalists might be dismayed by some liberties taken (particularly a Japanese anime-style interlude and a brief musical number set to a REO Speedwagon hit), the movie\'s heart is in the right place, resulting in a topnotch family feature.

7. Smart People – $4.2M

Monday, April 14th, 2008
For his feature film debut, director Noam Murro assembles an impressive cast: Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church, and Ellen Page. Quaid (VANTAGE POINT) stars as a brilliant-but-unhappy professor whose life begins to change--for the better--when he has a stroke. The experience allows him to reconnect with a former student (Parker) and his adopted brother (Church). JUNO breakout Paige plays the professor\'s equally intelligent daughter.

8. The Ruins – $3.2M

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Scott B. Smith adapts his own novel of tourism gone wrong with this horror film. In THE RUINS, a group of vacationers travel to a remote area in search of a missing man, but what they find there is far more disturbing and dangerous than they were prepared for.

9. Superhero Movie – $3.1M

Monday, April 14th, 2008
AIRPLANE! director David Zucker is back with another spoof movie, with his sights firmly set on the superhero genre this time around.

1. Vantage Point – $22.9M

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Thomas Barnes and Kent Taylor are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton at a landmark summit on the global war on terror. When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain, chaos ensues and disparate lives collide in the hunt for the assassin. In the crowd is Howard Lewis, an American tourist who thinks he's captured the shooter on his camcorder while videotaping the event for his kids back home. Also there is American TV news producer Rex Brooks, relaying the historic event to millions of TV viewers across the globe. As they and others reveal their stories, the pieces of the puzzle will fall into place - and it will become apparent that shocking motivations lurk just beneath the surface.