New Line Cinema/Warner Bros. Pictures’ “The Final Destination” held onto first place for a second weekend running with an estimated $12.3 million weekend gross. Film went on to gross more than $15.4 million over the four day Labor Day weekend frame. Total accumulated for the horror is over $50.5 million from two weekends at play.
Weinstein Co’s “Inglourious Basterds” also kept its ranking in second position with $11.6 million and $15 million earned on three and four day figures, bringing its total cume to over $95 million.
Surprisingly, Fox’s critically-slammed romantic comedy “All About Steve” starring Sandra Bullock, Bradley Cooper and Thomas Haden Church bested Lionsgate’s “Gamer” opener with Gerard Butler by earning $11.2 million vs. $9.1 million.
“Steve” debuted in 2,251 venues and averaged $6,175.03 and went on to add a further $2.7 million from Monday estimates. “Gamer” turned in an overall disappointing effort after much hype, averaging a paltry $4,476 per theatre.
The Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor-helmed and written film is now the second of the Gerard Butler starrers (the other being Sony’s “The Ugly Truth” with Katherine Heigl) which have not performed up to scratch.
Sony’s excellent “District 9” science fiction actioner, one of the best offerings of the year, finishes off the top five films this weekend.
Year-to-date estimates reflect that 2009 has chalked up around $7.4 billion vs. last year’s $6.8 billion. Revenue is up by 7.76% and attendance up by 3.86%. This is the fifth “up” weekend after four “down” weekends.
The top film at the same time last year was the uproariously funny “Tropic Thunder” followed by “Babylon A.D.,” “The Dark Knight,” “The House Bunny” and “Traitor.”
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