Breaking a Labor Day 4-day box-office record is not exactly something to brag about considering the top five films in order are Transporter 2 ($20.1 mil.), Jeepers Creepers 2 ($18.3 mil.), Jeepers Creepers ($15.8 mil.), Crank ($12.8 mil.) and The Wicker Man ($11.7 mil.). Not exactly stiff competition, but Rob Zombie’s new remake of the classic horror Halloween, which hit theaters this weekend two months ahead of the actual holiday it is named for swooped in to claim the all-time record with $26.5 million in its first three days already surpassing Transporter 2 by $7.4 million. Tracking has the fright flick expected to come in somewhere around $33 million for the four-day holiday weekend, which would be about $8 million more than our Box-Office Oracle predicted.
One race that isn’t quite over yet and I am sure the Oracle has his eye on it is the #2 slot in which he had newcomer Balls of Fury edging out Superbad, but currently the three week old teen comedy is beating out the shitty ping pong “comedy” by only $0.6 million, an edge that could easily be lost over the next day.
The only other new flick to crack the top ten is Fox’s Death Sentence coming in at #8, a film that I thought looked decent, but all hope was lost as I learned it would only be screened at 9 PM the night before it opened (no chance of good work when that is the case). The Kevin Bacon starrer directed by Saw co-writer/director James Wan opened to a three-day cummulative of $4.1 million and you can’t really expect much more than maybe another $1 million on Monday.
The Bourne Ultimatum held strong at #3 over the first three days and is sure to crack the $200 million mark by the end of Monday as it’s three-day total of $10.1 million has it sitting at $199,603,000 domestically. How can they not give us a fourth one after this kind of success?
Rounding out the top five was Rush Hour 3 as it managed an additional $8.5 in its fourth weekend bringing it’s overall total to $120 million.
You can check out the current weekend estimates right here and stay tuned tomorrow when Laremy will break down the four-day Labor Day weekend totals.
