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"Are We There Yet?" Arrives First
Ice Cube's road trip managed to survive some wintry weather.
On a weekend when blizzard conditions kept many potential moviegoers home, Cube's family comedy Are We There Yet? snowed the competition, raking up $18.6 million according to final studio tallies Monday. The Sony movie accounted for 22 percent of tickets sold.
Overall business for the top 12 films was just $83 million, down 30 percent from last weekend (but actually up about one percent from this time last year). Distributors blamed the low receipt count on appalling weather in the Midwest and Northeast, but there was also a dearth of major new releases in rotation at the megaplex, and NFL playoffs on Sunday kept couch potatoes at home.
Aside from Are We There Yet?, the only other wide entry was the R-rated action drama Assault on Precinct 13, which opened Wednesday. The R-rated remake of John Carpenter's mid-'70s B-flick, about a bunch of cops, criminals and gangsters battling each other as, appropriately enough, a blizzard rages, only managed $6.5 million from Friday to Sunday to land in sixth place and $8 million since its debut. This, despite the Focus/Rogue release's heavyweight cast, which includes Laurence Fishburne, Brian Dennehy, Gabriel Byrne and Ethan Hawke.
Movies in their second weekend of release took severe hits. Last week's top dog, Samuel L. Jackson's inspiring hoops tale Coach Carter, dropped 56 percent, which was more than expected. The talking zebra family film Racing Stripes was reined back 51 percent, down from third to fifth place. And Jennifer Garner's comic-book flick Elektra continued to short circuit, down a whopping 69 percent and falling from its dud fifth place debut to 10th. Fox executive Rick Myerson figured the dip might have been considerably less had the weather been nicer, but he does concede the film, which has grossed just $20.4 million, is a disappointment.
Clearly not a disappointment is Sideways, distributed by the studio's Fox Searchlight division. Speaking from Park City, Utah, where blue skies are shining over the Sundance Film Festival, Seachlight executive Steve Gilula said excellent word of mouth and key Golden Globes wins had combined to create "a terrific boost" for the wine-drinking buddies comedy. In its 14th week the R-rated release expanded to 699 sites from 333 last weekend. It gained 32 percent, moving up from 13th to 11th place with $2.9 million.
There was good news for another winner at the Globes, Clint Eastwood's boxing drama Million Dollar Baby, starring Hilary Swank. Expanding to 147 sites from 25 last weekend, the PG-13 Warners release moved up from 14th to 12th place with $1.7 million and earned the highest per-screen average of the weekend: $12,619.
In contrast, packed into 2,709 sites, the PG-rated Are We There Yet?, costarring Nia Long as the divorced mother of the two ride-along tykes who plague Ice Cube's journey, only averaged $6,857. Assault on Operation 13, slammed into 2,297 locations, averaged only $2,140.
Here's a rundown of the top 10 films based on final studio figures compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
1. Are We There Yet?, $18.6 million
2. Coach Carter, $10.5 million
3. Meet the Fockers, $9.7 million
4. In Good Company, $8 million
5. Racing Stripes, $6.8 million
6. Assault on Precinct 13, $6.5 million
7. White Noise, $5 million
8. The Aviator, $4.8 million
9. Andrew Lloyd Weber's The Phantom of the Opera, $4.6 million
10. Elektra, $4 million
(Originally published Jan. 23, 2005 at 12:45 p.m. PT.)
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