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Carrey Yucks Beat "Chicken" Clucks
Jim Carrey's outrageous split-personality comedy Me, Myself & Irene was number one at the box-office, earning an estimated $24.2 million. It outpaced the animated fowl comedy Chicken Run, which earned $17.5 million over the weekend for second place.
However, in the big numbers game of Hollywood movies, truth isn't all in the figures. Carrey's twisted turn as a Rhode Island state trooper actually underachieved, coming in below studio expectations, whereas Chicken Run's Rhode Island red rooster, voiced by Mel Gibson, is seen as a real winner.
Carrey's outing in the Farrelly brothers' slapstick played in 3,020 theaters for an average of $8,013. The Fox release scored bigger than the trio's previous collaboration on Dumb and Dumber which opened with $16.3 million in 1994. But Irene took in considerably fewer bucks than Carrey's top grossing Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls, which opened with $37.8 million in 1995, or even his more high-brow The Truman Show, which debuted with $31.5 million in 1998.
Meanwhile, the handiwork of animators Peter Lord and Nick Park looks to have set a record for a DreamWorks animated movie. Playing in 2,491 theaters, the clay-animated family film averaged $7,025. Its estimated three-day weekend total is slightly bigger than the opening gross of $17.1 million for the company's Antz in 1998.
Critics panned the antic, vulgar humor of Me, Myself & Irene which teams a double dose of Carrey with his girlfriend Renée Zellweger--nothing usual in that--but the film's R rating may have impeded a young audience keen on his low end humor. Exit polls revealed only 60 percent viewer recommendation.
But 85 percent of viewers recommended Chicken Run, starring a gaggle of brave poultry trying to escape the coop. Created by the animators of England's Aardman Studios, Oscar winners for Wallace and Gromit and also creators of those toothy talking cars of the Chevron commercials, the G-rated toon had earned raves from critics indulging in numerous cackling puns.
Last week's number one, the blaxploitation revival Shaft, fell to third place, racking up $13.3 million. Also remaining in the top10, in sixth place, Mission: Impossible 2, earned $8 million to bring its overall five week total to $189.3 million. The film is on cruise control to become the first $200 million grosser of the year 2000.
According to estimates from Exhibitor Relations, the top 10 ran this way:
1. Me, Myself & Irene, $24.2 million
2. Chicken Run, $17.5 million
3. Shaft, $13.3 million
4. Gone in Sixty Seconds, $9.5 million
5. Big Momma's House, $8.7 million
6. Mission: Impossible 2, $8 million
7. Gladiator, $4 million
8. Titan A.E., $3.7 million
9. Dinosaur, $3.5 million
10. Boys and Girls, $3.1 million.
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