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"Scary Movie" Slays 'Em
The Wayans brothers' raunchy horror spoof scored a humongous estimated gross of $42.5 million.
Saved by its controversial R rating, the low-budget sex-and-slasher comedy was able to reach the youth audience it targeted. And teens and twentysomethings lapped it up. At 2,912 sites the parody averaged $14,595 per screen.
Keenen, Shawn and Marlon's tasteless joker was the second biggest opener of the year, behind the much more expensive Mission: Impossible 2, which opened in May and earned $57.9 million in its first three days.
Scary Movie was scary cheap to make, costing about $19 million--way way less than the reportedly $200 million M:I-2 or $140 million spent on each of last week's headliners, The Perfect Storm and The Patriot.
The Dimension release washed The Perfect Storm down to second, pushed The Patriot down to third and only allowed Bruce Willis' family film Disney's The Kid to open in fourth.
Willis' sentimental story about a cold-hearted exec able to look back on himself as a cute tyke just managed to average $5,768 at 2,167 sites for a total of $12.5 million.
The adult dramas starring George Clooney and Mel Gibson both dropped over 30 percent from their opening week. The Perfect Storm averaged $7,925 per screen at 3,407 sites to take in another $27 million, which swept it past the $100 million mark. The Patriot earned $5,064 at 3,061 sites for another $15.5 million bringing its two-week total of $65.5 million.
However, the biggest per screen average was scored by But I'm a Cheerleader. On just four screens in New York and San Francisco the gay comedy averaged $15,000, prancing in with a total $60,000.
According to box-office trackers Exhibitor Relations, here are the top 10:
1. Scary Movie, $42.5 million
2. The Perfect Storm, $27 million
3. The Patriot, $15.5 million
4. Disney's The Kid, $12.5 million
5. Chicken Run, $9.5 million
6. Me, Myself & Irene, $8 million
7. Shaft, $4.125 million
8. Big Momma's House, $4.1 million
9. The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, $4 million
10. Gone in Sixty Seconds, $3.8 million
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