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Dwayne Johnson Rocks Box Office
What do Wes Anderson, Ang Lee and the actor formerly known only as the Rock have in common? Not much, actually.
The three, however, did all have big weekends at the box office.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson scored with The Game Plan. In its first weekend, the Disney family comedy, about a big, bad football star asked to make like Vin Diesel in The Pacifier, grossed more money than any other movie—$23 million, per final studio tallies compiled by Exhibitor Relations Monday.
The Game Plan, the first of Johnson's movies in which his given name split billing with his pro-wrestling name, edged out the weekend's other new wide release, the Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner Saudi Arabian-set actioner The Kingdom, which debuted with $17.1 million.
Directors Anderson and Lee scored with their new movies, The Darjeeling Limited and Lust, Caution, respectively, which packed houses from coast to, well, New York City.
Lust, Caution, bowing at one theater, also in Manhattan, took in $63,918.
The Darjeeling Limited, a comedy starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Rushmore's Jason Schwartzman as three brothers who take a spiritual train journey through India, is Anderson's first film since 2004's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou failed to build on the box-office potential shown by 2001's The Royal Tenenbaums.
Playing in two Gotham theaters, the film did even better than Lust, Caution, averaging $67,469 for a total of $134, 938.
"We are extremely excited about it," Fox Searchlight's Sheila DeLoach said Sunday. "Wes Anderson's fans came out in droves."
The Darjeeling Limited is also Wilson's first film to hit theaters since the actor's reported suicide attempt in August. As yet, the star, out of the public eye since the summer incident, has not done publicity for the film.
Lust, Caution, meanwhile, is Lee's first film since he won the Best Director Oscar for Brokeback Mountain. The Chinese-language drama is a spy thriller set in World War II. It earned some press for taking top honors at the Venice Film Festival and earned a lot of press for getting branded with an NC-17 for "some explicit nudity."
Elsewhere, the Beatles-paced Across the Universe ($2 million; $5.5 million overall) moved into the top 10. Still showing at fewer than 400 theaters, the musical held off Feast of Love, the romantic comedy-drama featuring Greg Kinnear and Morgan Freeman, for the 10th and last spot. Feast, which bowed as 1,200 theaters, went starving with $1.7 million.
The Bourne Ultimatum ($1.75 million; $222.8 million overall) fell out of the top 10 after eight big weeks in which it established itself as the top-grossing entry in the Bourne franchise. Also exiting: Superbad ($1.6 million; $118.9 million overall) and Dragon Wars ($900,956; $10.2 million overall), after stays of six and two weeks, respectively.
In limited release, Sean Penn's Into the Wild had another strong weekend, digging up $631,451 ($930,105 overall) at 29 theaters.
Here's a rundown of the top 10 films based on official Friday-Sunday tallies compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
1. The Game Plan, $23 million
2. The Kingdom, $17.1 million
3. Resident Evil: Extinction, $8 million
4. Good Luck Chuck, $6.2 million
5. 3:10 to Yuma, $4.2 million
6. The Brave One, $3.7 million
7. Mr. Woodcock, $2.947 million
8. Eastern Promises, $2.938 million
9. Sydney White, $2.6 million
10. Across the Universe, $2 million
(Originally published Sept. 30, 2007 at 2:49 p.m. PT.)
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