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"Barbershop 2" Clips "Miracle"
Barbershop 2: Back in Business was indeed back in business this weekend.
The snip-and-diss sequel clipped up $24.2 million to take over the top slot at the box office. According to official studio figures released Monday, Barbershop 2 is now the fourth best February opener ever and easily topped the $20.6 million debut of the original Barbershop in 2002.
The haircutting hysterics of Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Eve and Queen Latifah did something the 1980 Soviet hockey team couldn't, beat the American skating upstarts.
The feel-good Olympic hockey saga Miracle merited a silver medal, finising in the runner-up slot with a $19.4 million opening.
The week's only other newbie, the 'tween heist caper Catch That Kid, could only capture sixth place, with just $5.8 million.
Without the controversy of its predecessor, which made fun of civil rights icons Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., the PG-13 Barbershop 2 buzzed into 2,711 sites and averaged $8,942 for MGM and is seemingly on pace to pass the $75.7 million total of the first flick.
Miracle, starring Kurt Russell as determined coach Herb Brooks, slid into 2,605 sites and averaged $7,439 per. Disney says the PG release appealed to all age groups, with 55 percent of its audience male.
Fox's PG-rated Catch That Kid, with Kristen Stewart as one of a trio of young robbers trying to use their playground skills to knock off a bank to pay for a family crisis, opened in 2,844 theaters, where it averaged $2,046.
In limited release, the per-screen victory went to The Dreamers, Bernardo Bertolucci's tale of passion and incest among three movie buffs during the 1968 student riots in Paris. The art-house crowd was apparently eager to see why the film earned an NC-17 rating; at just five sites, the Fox Searchlight release averaged $28,526 for a total of $142,632.
Osama, winner of the Golden Globe as Best Foreign-Language Film, also had a successful limited debut. A moving tale of a young girl who tries to live as a boy in order to support her family during the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the PG-13 MGM release averaged $12,992 at four sites for $51,969.
The two new top movies served to push last week's topper, You Got Served, down to third place. The dance movie, featuring the defunct band B2K, dropped off 53 percent, but the low-budget flick still earned $7.5 million to bring its two-week total to $25.9 million.
The only gain for those films in the Oscar derby was chalked up by Monster. The serial killer biopic, starring Golden Globe winner Charlize Theron, added 224 more screens, gaining 4 percent and moving up from 11th to ninth place into a virtual tie with eighth-place finisher Mystic River (whose stars Sean Penn and Tim Robbins won Golden Globes). Now at 892 sites, the R-rated New Market release averaged $3,939 to earn $3.5 million, pushing its seven-week gross to $15.3 million.
Overall, the top 12 movies grossed $91 million, up 24 percent from last week's Super Bowl-ravaged tally, but down 11 percent from this time last year.
Here's how the top 10 ranked, as compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
1. Barbershop 2: Back in Business, $24.2 million
2. Miracle, $19.4 million
3. You Got Served, $7.5 million
4. Along Came Polly, $6.8 million
5. The Butterfly Effect, $6.5 million
6. Catch That Kid, $5.8 million
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, $4.3 million
8. Mystic River, $3.6 million
9. Monster, $3.5 million
10. Cold Mountain, $3.2 million
(Originally published Feb. 8, 2004 at 12:25 p.m. PT.)
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