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Lopez's "Cell" Opens Well
However, bigger crowds squeezed into the theaters showing The Original Kings of Comedy. The yukfest featuring the stand-up of D.L. Hughley, Steve Harvey and Cedric the Entertainer, captured on the road through the lens of Spike Lee, finished in second place, but scored a higher per screen average than The Cell. Kings averaged $13,813 at 847 sites for a total of $11.7 million, according to studio estimats.
In contrast, Lopez's flashy slasher rampage as a shrink on a literal head trip attracted just $7,134 per screen at 2,411 sites.
Overall, it was a down weekend. The top 12 movies grossed just $88.7 million, 35.5 percent less than the same weekend last year and 8.2 percent less than last weekend. There is now scant hope that summer 2000 will set any records. Estimates suggest the total will be at least $200 million less than last year's record $3 billion, when The Sixth Sense held sway.
However, Clint Eastwood and his good ol' bare bum geezer sidekicks continued to hold their own as Space Cowboys earned $9.9 million in third place in its third week of release. It has now sucked up an estimated $54.2 million.
But all the hot air vanished from Kevin Bacon's Hollow Man. After two weeks at the top of the box-office, audiences decided there was little more to see. The see-through frightfest nearly vanished, falling 53 percent to seventh place with just $6.1 million.
Better news for Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, which, although now in sixth place after four weeks, earned $6.4 million. That was enough to push Eddie Murphy's multiple persona'd comedy to a total gross of $104.4 million, making it the 12th film this year to pass the $100 million mark.
Meanwhile, the Y2K edition of a classic radioactive reptile failed to ignite moviegoers. Godzilla 2000, the latest stomp and romp of the original big rubber lizard, didn't even make it into the top 10, debuting with just $4.6 million in 11th place.
According to Exhibitor Relations, the weekend lines up this way (final tallies due Monday):
1. The Cell, $17.2 million
2. The Original Kings of Comedy, $11.7 million
3. Space Cowboys, $9.9 million
4. The Replacements, $7.5 million
5. What Lies Beneath, $7.1 million
6. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, $6.4 million
7. Hollow Man, $6.1 million
8. Autumn in New York, $5.7 million
9. Coyote Ugly, $5 million
10. Bless the Child, $4.9 million.
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