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"Blade 2" Cuts Back "Ice Age"
Wesley Snipes' return as the comic-book-based ass-kicking vampire slayer debuted with $32.5 million, according to final studio tallies Monday, the second best ever March opener.
The first? Ice Age, which debuted with $46.3 million last weekend, but slipped 35 percent this weekend to earn $30.1 million in second place.
New Line's R-rated Blade 2, a sequel to 1998's successful Blade, stars Snipes as a half-vampire heavyweight sparring with other vampire hunters in a flurry of internecine conflicts. It opened in 2,707 theaters with a $12,016 per-screen average.
Fox's Ice Age, a computer-animated fable in which a mammoth, saber-toothed tiger and sloth band together to rescue a human child, averaged $8,986 per screen at 3,345 locations and has now grossed $87.3 million.
The digitally tinkered reissue of E.T. The Extra Terrestrial received only a so-so welcome as Steven Spielberg's now classic cute-kids-meet-cute-alien sci-fi tale returned home to 3,007 screens to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The PG-rated Universal release averaged $4,730 to earn $14.2 million.
The drag farce Sorority Boys was a real bust. The R-rated Buena Vista release, starring Harland Williams, Barry Watson and Michael Rosenbaum as a trio of dumb dudes trying to pass themselves off as crass chicks, earned just $4.1 million in 1,801 theaters with a per-screen average of $2,292.
In limited release, the much discussed Stolen Summer, winner of the Matt Damon-Ben Affleck Project Greenlight screenwriting contest, finally opened. Peter Jones' sentimental tale of Catholic and Jewish kids growing up in Chicago in the mid '70s, chronicled by an HBO documentary crew, opened with $61,613. The PG-rated Miramax release averaged $4,739 per its 13 sites.
This being Oscar weekend (when it's presumed Sunday-night audiences will watch the awards rather than go to the movies), we should note that of the hot contenders only A Beautiful Mind was still on the top 10 list, in ninth place with $4.1 million.
Overall box-office receipts for the top 12 films was $118.3 million, down about 2 percent from last weekend. However, the combined $121 million gross was up a whopping 70 percent over the same period last year.
Here is how Exhibitor Relations tracked the weekend top 10:
1. Blade 2, $32.5 million
2. Ice Age, $30.1 million
3. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, $14.2 million
4. Showtime, $8.1 million
5. Resident Evil, $6.7 million
6. We Were Soldiers, $5.7 million
7. The Time Machine, $5.3 million
8. Sorority Boys, $4.13 million
9. A Beautiful Mind, $4.08 million
10. 40 Days and 40 Nights, $2.7 million
(Originally published 3/24/02 at 11:40 a.m. PT.)
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