Weekend Box Office: Jackie Chan and Jet Li take 'Kingdom' to number one!

[The Clown Prince]

The first teaming of Jackie Chan and Jet Li turned out to be a success as The Forbidden Kingdom was the number one movie this weekend with a $20.8 million debut.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall debuts in second place with $17.3 million and pretty good reviews (86% at RottenTomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/forgetting_sarah_marshall/)).

After a number one opening, Prom Night falls to third place with $9.1 million and a $32.5 million total.

Al Pacino's latest, 88 Minutes opens in fourth place with $6.8 million.

And rounding out the top 5 is Nim's Island with $5.6 million and a $32.8 million total.

Also opening this weekend was the Ben Stein documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed which opened in ninth place with $3.1 million.

Out of the top 12 this weekend is The Ruins (13th), Drillbit Taylor (14th), Meet the Browns (15th), and 10,000 BC (16th).

Opening next weekend, the last weekend before the summer movie season begins are three new movies. First up is Harold and Kumar Escape from Quantanamo Bay (http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=22961) (rated R) starring John Cho, Kal Penn, Rob Corddry, Roger Bart, and Neil Patrick Harris.

Next up is Baby Mama (http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=21020) (rated PG-13) with Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Romany Malco, Maura Tierney, Holland Taylor, and Sigourney Weaver.

And finally we have Deception (http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=39054) (rated R) starring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, Maggie Q, Natasha Henstridge, and Rachael Taylor.

Here are your numbers....


1) The Forbidden Kingdom- $20,870,000 ($20,870,000) NEW!
2) Forgetting Sarah Marshall- $17,348,000 ($17,348,000) NEW!
3) Prom Night- $9,100,000 ($32,564,000)
4) 88 Minutes- $6,800,000 ($6,800,000) NEW!
5) Nim's Island- $5,650,000 ($32,857,000)
6) 21- $5,500,000 ($69,984,000)
7) Street Kings- $4,000,000 ($19,879,000)
8) Horton Hears a Who- $3,500,000 ($144,407,000)
9) Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed- $3,153,000 ($3,153,000) NEW!
10) Leatherheads- $3,022,000 ($26,578,000)
11) Smart People- $1,613,000 ($6,818,000)
12) Superhero Movie- $1,542,000 ($23,538,000)

[Movie06]

Saw it coming. You know, Kingdom is actually a pretty good flick.

[Darklordavaitor]

Yeah, saw Forbidden Kingdom eariler today. Pretty stacked. I saw it coming. Not great, per say, for Sarah Marshall, but I'm pretty sure it did better than Walk Hard and Drillbit did in their first weeks combined. I don't know how Apatow's other films did at first; this good?

[Classic Speedy]

The theater where I saw it was sold out and packed. Not surprised that it reached #1.

[Hanshotfirst113]

Duh. Jet Li Lian-Jie+Jackie Chan Kong Sang+Yuen Wo Ping+hype=box office gold. Interesting to see Sarah Marshal doing reasonably well. Yay for my hometown girl Kristen Bell :D!

[RonDrakenfan17]

Wow I didn't predict this. I mean I know this is the first time seeing Jackie meet Jet-Lee but I didn't think it would draw in this many numbers. Maybe I'll go see it after all.

[CaptainHero]

I bet you Harold and Kumar is going to be the surprise sleeper hit next weekend. While the first one did terribly in the box office (only 18 million) I guarantee the sequel will make more its opening weekend than the original did its entire run

[Han Ji-Eun]

Kingdom was really great, so I'm glad to see it hit #1. It was cheesy, yes, but it had great action sequences and was visually beautiful. Jackie was funny, of course, but Jet Li as the Monkey King was surprisingly my favorite. You never get to see Jet being funny and cute, but he really was.

I really want to see Sarah Marshall, but I imagine that Jason Segel going full-frontal kept parents from allowing their kids to come with them, and I think a lot of draw for Apatow films comes from high schoolers who can't get in to see them. I expect it will do well on DVD. Hopefully it will stick around for a while with the summer coming up. The only thing that surprises me about the mere 17 mil is that it got TONS of advertising. Maybe people were just sick of seeing it everywhere?

[Tobias]

I really want to see Sarah Marshall, but I imagine that Jason Segel going full-frontal kept parents from allowing their kids to come with them, and I think a lot of draw for Apatow films comes from high schoolers who can't get in to see them. I expect it will do well on DVD. Hopefully it will stick around for a while with the summer coming up. The only thing that surprises me about the mere 17 mil is that it got TONS of advertising. Maybe people were just sick of seeing it everywhere?

I don't know if Segel's manhood was what stopped people from going. I mean, Superbad had a whole MONTAGE of that (even though they were just drawings) and SB became a sleeper hit.

You have to give Apatow credit for being so bold in the face of Hollywood squeamishness over male exposure.

[Desensitized]

I bet you Harold and Kumar is going to be the surprise sleeper hit next weekend. While the first one did terribly in the box office (only 18 million) I guarantee the sequel will make more its opening weekend than the original did its entire run
It became a big cult hit on DVD, so I'm sure it'll do much better than the original did in it's theatrical run.

[Infusions]

Man, you guys are just totally all over the movie news, huh? :0

And geeze, look how much Horton cashed in total.

[Tobias]

Man, you guys are just totally all over the movie news, huh? :0

And geeze, look how much Horton cashed in total.

Yes, yes we are. The weekend box office gross is a weekly thread, so be here Sunday afternoons to get the weekly totals.

Baby Mama looks hilarious, I might check that out next week.

[CaptainHero]

$17 million is far from disappoiting

[Ajax]

$17 million is far from disappoitingNo doubt espeically considering that anything with Apatow's name attached has been getting its ass kicked in the box office lately. Im gonna watch his film 2morrow.

[creeper]

No doubt espeically considering that anything with Apatow's name attached has been getting its ass kicked in the box office lately. Im gonna watch his film 2morrow.

I saw it twice already. I enjoyed it. My wife and I laughed pretty hard. I'm still waiting for a talkback for it, looks like a thread hasn't been made yet.