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"Spy Kids" Still Tops
Despite a slate of new releases in megaplexes for the holiday weekend, the pint-sized secret agents towered over the box office for the third straight week, racking up $12.5 million, according to final studio tallies Monday. The film has grossed $68.3 million in three weeks and appears headed to a $100 million-plus run.
And for the second week in a row, a spider was nipping at their heels. The Morgan Freeman thriller Along Came a Spider finished at number two, with $11.5 million from the Friday-Sunday period. Its 10-day total stands at $33.9 million
Try as they might, this weekend's crop of new flicks couldn't avoid the Friday the 13th curse. Joe Dirt, Kingdom Come and Josie and the Pussycats all opened Wednesday to avoid the unlucky premiere date. The only high-profile feature to dare the supposed jinx and open on Friday was Bridget Jones's Diary--and that did the best of them all, coming in third place with $10.7 million.
Playing in 1,425 sites, the romantic comedy had a per screen average of $6,700. The movie version of Helen Fielding's runaway bestseller received glowing reviews for its star, Renée Zellweger (British accent, cellulite and all), and good notices in general, and will likely be buoyed by strong word-of-mouth in coming weeks.
The same won't be likely for some of the other major-release new films. David Spade's trailer-park trash comedy Joe Dirt dug up a measly $8.02 million in fourth place over the three-day weekend. The mullet-headed flick averaged $3,000 per its 2,638 screens. Since its Wednesday open, the film has grossed a little more than $10.7 million.
The all-star family comedy Kingdom Come, in which Jada Pinkett Smith, Vivica A. Fox, Whoopi Goldberg, Toni Braxton and Cedric the Entertainer get together for a funny funeral, managed $7.6 million in sixth place. For the three-day weekend, the film averaged a respectable $6,800 per screen at 1,111 theaters--it was the best average among the top 10 films. Kingdom Come has earned $9.7 million since opening Wednesday.
Finally, the overly ironic big-screen adaptation of Josie looks bound for the celluloid litter box, barely registering with critics or audiences and scraping by with a less-than purr-fect $4.6 million down in seventh place over the three-day weekend (and $6.5 million since its Wednesday release). It averaged just about $1,800 per its 2,554 screens.
Overall, the top 12 films grossed a total of $75.3 million, up 12 percent from last year's $67.6 million, reports box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations.
Here are the weekend's top 10, according to Exhibitor Relations as compiled from final studio tallies:
1. Spy Kids, $12.5 million
2. Along Came a Spider, $11.5 million
3. Bridget Jones's Diary, $10.7 million
4. Joe Dirt, $8.02 million
5. Blow, $8.01 million
6. Kingdom Come, $7.6 million
7. Josie and the Pussycats, $4.6 million
8. Pokémon 3: The Movie, $2.7 million
9. Enemy at the Gates, $2.67 million
10. Someone Like You, $2.6 million
(originally posted 4/15/01 at 12:30 p.m. PT)
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