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"Amityville" House Haunts Box Office
Bad real estate made for good box office as The Amityville Horror easily moved in at the top of the weekend movie list.
The blood-spattered update of the 1979 horror flick about the purportedly true story of a bedeviled Long Island manse that not even the Extreme Home Makeover crew could fix scared up $23.5 million from Friday to Sunday, according to final studio figures Monday.
Made on the cheap for about $19 million with a B-list cast headed by Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George, the MGM frightfest (the last film to be issued by the storied studio before its merger with Sony) has already recouped its production costs. As the weekend's only major newcomer, Amityville overcame a slew of thumbs-down reviews to average $7,074 per site at 3,323 theaters, best among films in wide release.
The tally for the new Amityville compares favorably to the wall-bleeding original, which garnered $7.8 million at just 748 theaters in July 1979--an amount equivalent to about $20 million today when adjusted for inflation, according to movie-tracking Website boxofficemojo.com. The original film, which spawned seven sequels, most of which went directly to video, grossed $86.4 million in its day--that's nearly $220 million in 2005 dollars, per boxofficemojo.com.
With Amityville checking in at number one, last week's chart-topper, Sahara sank one spot to two with $13.1 million, a dip of just 28 percent. Its two-week tally stands at $36.4 million. Fever Pitch, holding tight at number three, also had a minimal drop after a disappointing opening weekend, down 31 percent to $8.5 million. The Red Sox-themed romantic comedy has grossed $23.7 million in two weeks.
On the art-house circuit, David Duchovny's feature directing debut, House of D, opened to strong business. Playing at just two theaters, the coming-of-age drama, starring Duchovny, wife Teé Leoni and Robin Williams, earned $36,371.
Palindromes, Todd Solondz's character-shifting story of a girl whose dream of having a baby is frought with drama, averaged $8,179 at seven theaters for a $57,251 weekend and $68,071 since its release Wednesday. The Year of the Yao, a documentary chronicling the rookie season of the NBA's all-star Chinese import Yao Ming, averaged $2,319 at 12 theaters for $27,833.
Receipts were down for the eighth consecutive weekend. The top 12 movies totaled just $74 million, according to the box-office bean counters at Exhibitor Relations, down 6 percent from last weekend and 13 percent from the same time last year.
Here's a rundown of the top 10 weekend films:
1. The Amityville Horror, $23.5 million
2. Sahara, $13.1 million
3. Fever Pitch, $8.5 million
4. Sin City, $6.7 million
5. Guess Who, $4.9 million
6. Beauty Shop, $3.7 million
7. Robots, $3.6 million
8. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, $3 million
9. The Pacifier, $2.4 million
10. The Upside of Anger, $2.1 million
(Originally published Apr. 17, 2005 at 5:45 p.m. PT.)
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