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The Fog rolled in on top.
The ghostly bout of bad weather scared up $11.8 million, barely overcasting last week's winner, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which dropped to second place with $11.5 million, and the new Cameron Crowe road-trip movie, Elizabethtown, which stalled in third place with just $10.6 million. The weekend's third major entry, the female bounty hunter flick Domino, teetered in with just $4.7 million way down in seventh place.
Starring TV cuties Tom Welling (Smallville) and Maggie Grace (Lost), The Fog is director Rupert Wainwright's remake of John Carpenter's 1979 creepfest about a mysterious mist that stirs up an old curse. The PG-13 Sony release, which was slipped into theaters without being screened for critics, averaged $3,955 at 2,972 sites. While not a huge number for such seasonal youth-oriented scare fare, the studio claimed to be happy enough with the result. "It should play well through Halloween," Rory Bruer, Sony's head of distribution, told the Hollywood Reporter.
Plagued by poor reviews and opening in fewer theaters, the PG-13 Elizabethtown, featuring Orlando Bloom as a failed shoe-company hotshot who meets oddball flight attendant Kirsten Dunst on his trip home, managed a slightly better average--$4,219 at 2,517 sites--but couldn't top the Wallace & Gromit 'toon. The latter showed staying power for distributor DreamWorks, falling just 28 percent on a $3,153 average at 3,656 locations to bring its two-week tally to $33.3 million.
Director Tony Scott's Domino has had a tortured path to the screen. The greatly embellished biopic of celebrity offspring Domino Harvey need to be tweaked after the real Harvey died of a drug overdose and then was pushed back from summer to fall. The added time apparently didn't help too much as critics savaged the Keira Knightley-fronted action film. The R-rated New Line release, featuring the eclectic ensemble of Lucy Liu, Mickey Rourke, Jacqueline Bisset, Delroy Lindo, Mo'Nique, Christopher Walken and a couple of Beverly Hills, 90210 alums, averaged just $2,101 at 2,223 theaters.
The highest per-screen average belonged to George Clooney's political journalism docudrama Good Night, and Good Luck. Adding 57 screens to play at 68 sites, the Warner Independent release gained 195 percent, averaging $18,304 for $1.2 million to bring its two-week gross to $1.9 million.
Other than Wallace & Gromit, the rest of last weekend's major releases had mixed success. In Her Shoes only slipped 39 percent from third to fifth, with $6.1 million. Two for the Money lost 46 percent, down from fourth to sixth, with $4.7 million. And The Gospel fell 59 percent, from fifth to 10th, with $3.1 million.
The top 12 movies grossed $71.6 million, down 19 percent from last weekend and 19 percent from this time last year, when Shark Tale was still the big fish in town in its third week of release.
Here's a rundown of the top 10 films based on final studio figures compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
1. The Fog, $11.8 million
2. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, $11.5 million
3. Elizabethtown, $10.6 million
4. Flightplan, $6.5 million
5. In Her Shoes, $6.1 million
6. Two for the Money, $4.69 million
7. Domino, $4.67 million
8. A History of Violence, $3.6 million
9. Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, $3.58 million
10. The Gospel, $3.1 million
(Originally published Oct. 16, 2005 at 11:55 a.m. PT.)
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