Weekend Box Office: Musketeers Fights To The Top

[James Harvey]

Following are the top 10 movies at the North American box office for the Sept. 7-9 weekend, according to studio estimates collected Sunday by Reuters. Final data will be issued Monday.

1 (+) The Musketeer ........... $10.7 million ($10.7 mill)

2 (+) Two Can Play That Game .. $ 8.3 million ($8.3 mill)

3-(+) Rock Star ............... $6.2 million ($6.2 mill)

3-(1) Jeepers Creepers ........$ 6.2 million ($24.3 mill)

5 (4) The Others .............. $6.1 million ($67.6 mill)

6 (2) Rush Hour 2 ............. $5.9 million ($206. 1 mill)

7 (3) American Pie 2 .......... $ 4.7 million ($131.2 mill)

8 (5) Rat Race ................ $ 4.4 million ($43.2 mill)

9 (6) The Princess Diaries .... $ 3.4 million ($97.1 mill)

10 (7) O ....................... $ 2.7 million ($10.8 mill)

Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back fell out of the top ten, and grossed $2,300,000 million, bringing it's total to a respectable $25,600,000.

Note: Edited to add cumulative gross and extra information.

[Nightflower]

The Musketeer was mucho lame-o. I watched it with my friends on Friday. The last fight scene, in the "ladder room" is a complete rip-off of a famous Chinese movie called Wong Fei Hung (Once Upon A Time in China in English), and several other Chinese movies. It Hollywood-ified the classic novel, making it completely different from the story. And some parts were plain silly... like when he's climbing up a tower on a rope, and they're sending al these baddies climbing down to meet him and fight with him. Naturally he sends them plummeting to their doom.... but nobody thinks to cut his rope from the safety of the top of the tower...nooo....

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by Nightflower
The Musketeer was mucho lame-o.

I myself stick to the 70s Salkind productions. ;)

[The Mad Hatter]

So Jay and Silent Bob will probably end up at a little over $30 mil, same as Dogma. Of course, his films tend to sell like crazy when they get on video. So all is well.

[James Harvey]

I figure dit would go to about $30 - 35 million, so I'm not suprised by the Box office. The video will be a hit I tells ya...