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If Only Will Ferrell Were Olympics-Eligible...
Real figure skating's on thin ice. Fake figure skating, on the other hand...
Blades of Glory, the Will Ferrell-Jon Heder farce on ice, topped the weekend box office with a cool $33 million, per final studio tallies Monday.
The other major new release, Meet the Robinsons, did all right for a non-Pixar Disney animated tale—its $25.1 million debut (second place) was bigger than, say, The Wild ($9.7 million in 2005), but smaller than, say, Chicken Little ($40 million in 2005), to cite two like Magic Kingdom products.
Blades of Glory's big opening comes a week after figure-skating's premiere non-Olympic event, the World Championships, was a non-event in the United States, with U.S. skaters failing to medal in either the men's or women's individual events, and international organizers fretting that ESPN might not reup as the sport's stateside TV home.
At the movies, though, skating couldn't have gotten much bigger. Blades of Glory's debut was Ferrell's second-biggest after Talladega Nights ($47 million in 2006).
Blades' success, however, wasn't all good news for its featured sport. The comedy poked fun at rink denizens, lampooned spandex and pretended figure skating's new-and-supposedly-improved scoring system didn't exist, featuring instead the junked, but familiar 6.0 judging scale.
On the plus side, Heder did stick the landings on his special-effects-aided axels.
Elsewhere, 300 (third place, $11.4 million; $179.9 million overall) let up a little, TMNT (fourth place, $9.2 million; $38.5 million overall) let up a lot, and Wild Hogs (fifth place, $8.7 million; $135.6 million) continued to make more money than seemed possible of a William H. Macy vehicle.
Outside of the Top 10, the thriller The Lookout got great reviews from critics, but not much love from audiences, averaging just $2,113 on 955 screens for a $2 million debut.
In limited release, the Vietnam drama Journey from the Fall ($90,100 on six screens) and Killer of Sheep ($24,000 on two screens), a 1977 film only now getting a theatrical release, impressed.
Here's a rundown of the top 10 films per final Friday-Sunday studio figures compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
1. Blades of Glory, $33 million
2. Meet the Robinsons, $25.1 million
3. 300, $11.4 million
4. TMNT, $9.2 million
5. Wild Hogs, $8.7 million
6. Shooter, $8.4 million
7. Premonition, $5.2 million
8. The Hills Have Eyes 2, $4.2 million
9. Reign Over Me, $3.83 million
10. The Last Mimzy, $3.82 million
[Originally published Apr. 1, 2007 at 5:23 p.m. PT.]
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