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"Van Helsing" Slays Olsen Twins
Van Helsing is more adept than imagined. Not only can the vampire hunter slay old-school Universal monsters, he's also handy at cutting down the Olsen twins.
Van Helsing, starring Hugh Jackman as the titular foe of Dracula, the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's Monster, killed the competition at the weekend box office--the Olsens' New York Minute, included--scaring up $51.7 million, per Exhibitor Relations' final figures Monday.
Van Helsing also scored the biggest per-screen average of the week, averaging $14,475 at each of its 3,575 sites.
By comparison, Mary-Kate and Ashley's legitimate screen debut, following a mega-empire built on straight-to-video flicks, played to less-than-full houses, taking in $6 million and bowing in fourth place. New York Minute averaged a minute $1,983 per the 3,006 theaters where it played.
The PG comedy failed to topple the reigning teen movie, Mean Girls, which fell one spot from last week's number one but still managed a strong $13.7 million for a two-week total of $42.1 million.
Super Size Me, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock's account of how he gave himself McGas and worse while gorging on McDonald's delicacies for one month, was the other top new entry. Showing at only 41 screens, the documentary ate its way into the top 20, placing 19th, grossing (truly) $516,641 and averaging a healthy $12,601 per screen.
The Mother's Day weekend race represented the start of the summer blockbuster season. As such, the box office could sort of use a blockbuster.
While Van Helsing's $51.7 million marked the year's biggest opening since The Passion of the Christ's in February, it hardly represented the biggest opening for the summer season.
Per BoxOfficeMojo.com, it ranks 12th among May openers, a world behind all-time champ Spider-Man, which snared nearly $115 million in 2002.
Spider-Man was made for about $140 million; Van Helsing clocked in at an estimated $160 million.
The Jackman-toplined horror-action flick, dissed by critics, doesn't just have history and bad reviews to contend with--starting next weekend it'll do battle with Brad Pitt's sword-and-skirt epic, Troy.
Elsewhere, Denzel Washington's Man on Fire (third place) pushed its take to a respectable $56.4 million with another $8.2 million this weekend.
The romantic comedy Laws of Attraction (sixth place) was down 45 percent from its underwhelming opening weekend, attracting just $3.7 million in receipts from fans of crackling Pierce Brosnan-Julianne Moore dialogue. So far the $32 million production has made about $12.1 million.
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (12th place), meanwhile, dug up another $1 million. Its haul now stands at $81 million, about half what its 2002 predecessor took in.
Here's a rundown of the top 10 grossing films, Friday-Sunday, according to Exhibitor Relations:
1. Van Helsing, $51.7 million
2. Mean Girls, $13.7 million
3. Man on Fire, $8.2 million
4. New York Minute, $6 million
5. 13 Going on 30, $5.8 million
6. Laws of Attraction, $3.7 million
7. Kill Bill: Volume 2, $3 million
8. Godsend, $2.8 million
9. Envy, $2.5 million
10. The Punisher, $1.3 million
(Originally published May 9, 2004 at 4:45 p.m. PT.)
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