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Hollow Man was far from unseen at the multiplexes this weekend, as director Paul Verhoeven's see-through thriller starring Bacon and Elisabeth Shue debuted with $26.4 million in ticket sales. Although the Sony flick was roundly panned by the critics, Hollow Man still gave Verhoeven his best opening ever, surpassing 1990's sci-fi thriller Total Recall, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger ($25.5 million).
The weekend's tightest race was for second place, with two debuts and one chunky professor battling it out. After taking the top spot last week, Eddie Murphy's Nutty Professor II: The Klumps shed a few pounds and dropped to second place with $18.2 million, while the openings for both Space Cowboys and Coyote Ugly remained close with $18.1 million and $17.3 million, respectively.
Warner Bros.' Space Cowboys marked not only 70-year-old Clint Eastwood's best box-office opening ever, but also proved that moviegoers would rather see the bare butts of four geezers than sexy ladies with ample cleavage and leather hip-huggers. The AARP-eligible space adventure, costarring Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner and Donald Sutherland, edged out the weekend debut of Touchstone's Coyote Ugly, starring Piper Perabo as an aspiring singer who joins up with a handful of other luscious babes at a rowdy New York bar.
Eastwood, who directed, produced and starred in Space Cowboys, topped his previous best opening as an actor from In the Line of Fire ($15.2 million) and as a director from Unforgiven ($15 million).
This week's biggest slide, once again, belonged to Pokémon: The Movie 2000, which tumbled 66 percent to a $2.1 million weekend showing, and dropped to number 11 in the rankings.
But perhaps more disconcerting to the industry has been the overall slide in ticket sales this summer. Despite three strong debuts, box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations noted a 2.8 percent drop from ticket sales last weekend, and a 14 percent drop in sales from the same weekend one year ago.
According to Exhibitor Relations, here are the final top 10 for Friday through Sunday:
1. Hollow Man, $26.4 million
2. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, $18.2 million
3. Space Cowboys, $18.1 million
4. Coyote Ugly, $17.3 million
5. What Lies Beneath, $13.8 million
6. X-Men, $6.8 million
7. Scary Movie, $4.2 million
8. The Perfect Storm, $4 million
9. Disney's The Kid, $3 million
10. The Patriot, $2.3 million
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