Weekend Box Office: 8 Mile opens BIG!!!

[The Clown Prince]

It looks like Hollywood, critics, movie goers and probably Eminem himself are really surprised at 8 Mile's opening. In his acting debut the always crontroversial rapper has cleaned up at the box office this weekend with an amazing $54.4 million! It wasn't just fans that went to see his movie, but I'm sure a lot of curious people did as well as there was a lot of buzz and hype surrounding this movie. Reviews have been mixed to positive.

And falling to number 2 was last weeks champ, The Santa Clause 2. The much needed hit for Tim Allen continues to do well with $24.8 million and a $60 million total.

Word of mouth is a great thing, and so is multiple viewings, and that looks like that's what keeps happening with The Ring as it continues to stay in the top 5 making the same amount of money on average every weekend. In it's 4th week of release The Ring brought in an additional $16 million for an $86 million total.

I Spy continues to do moderately well in it's second week of release, $9 million.

Jackass continues to lure people in as well with $7.2 million this weekend and a $53 million total.

And the most successful independent film in history My Big Fat Greek Wedding should hit $200 million in about 2 weeks or less. $5.7 million got added this weekend.

Next weekend we have the first major blockbuster of the holiday season, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. While this second film doesn't have all the major hype that last year's Sorcerer's Stone did, this one, now a little darker in tone should still do VERY WELL. A couple of early reviews have been good.

And what other movie dares challenge the power of a wizard? Well Steven Segal does of course in his new movie Half Past Dead. Should be interesting if the troubled actor can get a hit or do moderately well with this one.

Here are your numbers...

1) 8 Mile- $54,464,000 ($54,464,000) NEW!
2) The Santa Clause 2- $24,800,000 ($60,100,000)
3) The Ring- $16,000,000 ($86,100,000)
4) I Spy- $9,000,000 ($24,678,000)
5) Jackass: The Movie- $7,200,000 ($53,319,000)
6) My Big Fat Greek Wedding- $5,752,101 ($192,755,261)
7) Sweet Home Alabama- $3,800,000 ($118,600,000)
8) Ghost Ship- $3,160,000 ($26,174,000)
9) Femme Fatale- $2,830,000 ($3,485,000)
10) Punch-Drunk Love- $2,600,000 ($14,600,000)
11) Frida- $2,571,000 ($4,323,700)
12) Bowling For Columbine- $1,650,000 ($6,874,000)

The Clown Prince

[Anthonynotes]

Nice to see "Axel Foley" has one success under his belt...though I imagine it isn't enough to fully remove the giant goose egg that was "Pluto Nash"...

Figure Eminem's #1 status ought to take a hit next weekend when Harry Potter comes out...

Surprised that "Greek Wedding" is still packing them in and holding in at #6... wonder if that means it will get the TV series spinoff I heard was rumored to be in the offing...

-B.

[Chris Sanders MSX]

That's huge, 8 Mile turned a profit in one weekend. Thank God because Harry Potter was going to whoop his ass. I'm sure as soon as these numbers dropped people started FedExing scripts to his house.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

Eminem isn't interested in doing any more acting for a long, long while, if ever again. He's said this in many interviews.

I know many will say "money talks," but I actually believe Eminem when he says this.

[Chris Sanders MSX]

I heard him say that too and I think he won't do another ''featured role'' but I'm sure he'll be in another film in a year or 2. Next year his label's gonna be taking off and D12's new album will be released so he'll be real next year.