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"Saw II" Much for Competition
Saw II promised lots of blood; it delivered lots of bucks.
The grisly horror sequel, in which the determined Jigsaw picks up where he hacked off in Saw, delivered the box office's fifth-biggest October opening ever, according to Exhibitor Relations
Its $31.7 million take was more than enough to top the weekend competition, but not quite enough to shake Hollywood out of its fall slump. Overall, the top 12 films combined to gross $87 million, down about 6 percent when compared to this time last year.
It was during Halloween weekend 2004 that the original Saw opened with an eye-opening $18.3 million--a quick return on the flick's $1 million or so budget. Production costs on Saw II, starring The More Affordable Wahlberg (aka, Mark's big brother Donnie), remained on the low end, but quadrupled to an estimated $4 million, per IMDB.com.
If Saw II was an amplified version of its forerunner (bigger budget, bigger box office), then The Legend of Zorro is looking like a diminished version of its predecessor.
Seven years after The Mask of Zorro became Catherine Zeta-Jones' first big hit, The Legend of Zorro became just another of 2005's underachievers.
Legend, reuniting Zeta-Jones with Antonio Banderas, bowed in second place with $16.3 million, or $6 million less than Mask made on 1,000 fewer screens several inflationary cycles ago, per the stats at BoxOfficeMojo.com.
The Weather Man, meanwhile, wasn't the worst opening of Nicolas Cage's career, but suffice to say even Captain Corelli's Mandolin saw better weekends. The grown-up, character-driven drama of a TV weather forecaster in crisis debuted with a tepid $4.2 million (sixth place).
The weekend's other major new release, the Meryl Streep and Uma Thurman therapy comedy, Prime, didn't rate all that highly with audiences--third place, $6.2 million.
Doom, last weekend's champ, was this weekend's chump. Business plummeted 73 percent, down to $4.2 million ($23 million overall) and seventh place.
Falling out of the top 10 were: Elizabethtown (11th place, $2.4 million--$22.7 million overall); In Her Shoes (13th place, $1.7 million--$29.1 million overall); A History of Violence (14th place, $1.4 million--$28.5 million overall); and Two for the Money (18th place, $632,000).
The Passenger, a reissue of the 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni drama starring Jack Nicholson, was the prize of the art-house circuit, scoring $24,157 in two theaters, for a weekend-best screen average of $12,079.
Here's a rundown of the top 10 films based on estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
1. Saw II, $31.7 million
2. The Legend of Zorro, $16.3 million
3. Prime, $6.2 million
4. Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story, $6.1 million
5. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, $4.3 million
6. The Weather Man, $4.25 million
7. Doom, $4.23 million
8. North Country, $3.6 million
9. The Fog, $3.1 million
10. Flightplan, $2.7 million
(Originally published Oct. 30, 2005 at 4:35 p.m. PT.)
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