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"Lara Croft" Raids Box Office
Angelina Jolie's star turn as the curvaceous video game icon, looted $47.7 million at the box office to debut at number one, according to final studio figures Monday.
The PG-13 rated release scored as the best-ever opening for a film based on a video game. Paramount is also claiming that the butt-kicking action-adventure established a record as the top female star-driven vehicle.
The film also solidifies Jolie as a legitimate box-office draw. Tomb Raider's business was nearly double the $24.3 million opening weekend for last year's Gone in 60 Seconds, in which the Oscar-winning actress costarred with Nicolas Cage.
Playing at 3,308 sites, Tomb Raider averaged $14,400. Ignoring lukewarm reviews, male fans made up 55 percent of the audience ogling the estrogen version of Indiana Jones.
Meanwhile, the weekend's other wide release, Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire, surfaced with a respectable, if not thrilling, $20.3 million. Expanding from extremely limited release (one theater each in Los Angeles and New York) into 3,011 theaters, the PG-rated animated action-adventure floated into second place.
The animé-inspired 'toon averaged $6,800 per screen--good enough to jump over Disney's archrival DreamWorks' animated hit Shrek. The fractured fairy tale earned another $13.2 million in third place to bring its gross to $197.5 million. It should hit the coveted $200 million mark by the middle of the week.
Last week's chart-topper, John Travolta's cyber-thriller Swordfish, proved a flash in the pan, dropping 30 percent to fourth place with $12.8 million.
Pearl Harbor continued to slip, dropping another 33 percent down to fifth place with $9.9 million. In four weeks, the ultra-expensive epic has grossed $160 million, but still needs to earn almost another $100 million before even recouping its production and marketing costs.
The R-rated British gangster thriller Sexy Beast, starring Ben Kingsley as a vicious hitman, proved to be a monster in limited release, earning the weekend's highest per screen average, $19,000 at nine theaters. Since debuting Wednesday the Fox Searchlight release has grossed nearly $215,000.
Overall, the top 12 films grossed $128.5 million, up 36 percent from the previous period.
Here are the top 10 weekend movies, as compiled Monday by Exhibitor Relations from final studio tallies:
1. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, $47.7 million
2. Atlantis: The Lost Empire, $20.3 million
3. Shrek, $13.2 million
4. Swordfish, $12.7 million
5. Pearl Harbor, $9.9 million
6. Evolution, $6.6 million
7. The Animal, $5.8 million
8. Moulin Rouge, $5.1 million
9. What's The Worst That Could Happen?, $3 million
10. The Mummy Returns, $2.7 million
(originally posted 6/17/01 at 1:05 p.m. PT)
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