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Huge "Pokémon"-ey Rolls In
Kids craving their Pikachu fix continued to drag their minders and keepers to theaters, pumping another $32.4 million or so into Warners Bros. pockets to bring the five-day total for the hyped-up phenom to an estimated $52.1 million.
Easily the hit of the weekend, Pokémon, playing in 3,043 sites, earned $10,647 per screen. The pocket monsters saga beat the three-day record for a cartoon, earned last November by Paramount's The Rugrats Movie, and became the highest-grossing five-day animated player of all time, beating Disney's A Bug's Life, which totaled $45.7 million over Thanksgiving weekend last year.
In the space left over, last week's No. 1, the adult thriller The Bone Collector, starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie, continued to do fairly okay business. In 2,594 sites it scored a per screen average of $4,626 to earn an additional $12 million, pushing its total gross to $35.3 million.
Dogma, Kevin Smith's controversial fallen angels flick movie starring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Chris Rock, attracted $8.8 million in 1,269 theaters for third place.
Not doing nearly as well was the latest portrait pic of a religious babe who stirred up a whole lot of dogma in her day. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, the umpteenth Tinseltown take on the French saint, only earned $6.3 million in 2,147 theaters. Critically trashed and coming in the wake of the recent successful CBS television version, Messenger clearly didn't, ahem, catch fire.
In slightly fewer theaters Anywhere But Here, with Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman as a mother and daughter from the sticks looking for kicks in Beverly Hills, did slightly better per screen, but still wasn't in the real money, with only $5.7 million in fifth place.
In limited release, Felicia's Journey, a gritty drama about a much more harrowing transition, benefited from good reviews and the reputation of its The Sweet Hereafter director, Atom Egoyan, to earn $47,500 in just five sites.
Light It Up, an urban school drama (which Fox debuted on Wednesday) didn't live up to its title or make the Top 10 grade, earning just $3.2 million in five days from 1,253 sites.
Here's how the receipt counters at Exhibitor Relations estimated the Top 10 weekend films:
1. Pokémon: The First Movie, $32.4 million
2. The Bone Collector, $12 million
3. Dogma, $8.8 million
4. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, $6.3 million
5. Anywhere But Here, $5.7 million
6. The Insider, $5.1 million
7. The Bachelor, $4.7 million
8. House on Haunted Hill, $4.4 million
9. Double Jeopardy, $3.1 million
10. The Sixth Sense, $2.7 million
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