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"Virgin" Still Potent
Like a Virgin? So do moviegoers.
For the second straight weekend, The 40-Year-Old Virgin scored, just potent enough to edge out the top newcomer, The Brothers Grimm.
According to final studio tallies Monday, the Steve Carell comedy grossed $16.3 million in its second weekend, beating Brothers' rather grim debut of $15.1 million.
Overall, as the summer season peters to a close, the box office continued its major slump. The top 12 movies grossed $80.4 million, down 5 percent from this time last year, off nearly 20 percent than last weekend, and at its lowest since early May. When final figures come in after the Labor Day holiday, summer attendance is expected to be down about 12 percent from last year.
Universal didn't do any exit polling for Virgin, but a studio spokesperson says that excellent word of mouth has kept a broad mix of male and female and young and older ticket buyers coming to the film. "They like the big jokes that are well scattered throughout, and the sweet redemption payoff," the studio rep said.
Playing at 2,868 sites--23 more than its opening weekend--the R-rated film dropped a modest 24 percent, averaging $5,674 to bring its two-week tally to $48.6 million.
The Brothers Grimm, starring Matt Damon and Heath Ledger, was troubled from the get-go. Its released was delayed for a year while Miramax first squabbled over the cut with director Terry Gilliam and then went through a divorce from Disney. The action fantasy was dissed by critics and mostly shunned by audiences. Opening at 3,087 theaters, Grimm averaged $4,888.
That was practically a fairy-tale debut compared to the rest of the new films in wide release.
Sony's claustrophobic terror trip The Cave was buried down in fifth place, with a sparse $6.1 million opening. The Sony release, billed as an underground Alien with a case of pretty people including Cole Hauser and Lena Headey, was dumped into 2,195 theaters, where it averaged just $2,800.
Meanwhile, Undiscovered remained largely so. The PG-13 Lions Gate release, about wannabes seeking show-biz fame and starring Steven Strait and Ashlee Simpson, unspooled in 1,304 theaters and averaged an abysmal $518 per for a three-day total of just $676,000.
In limited release, the highest per-screen average for a new film belonged to The Memory of a Killer. At just six sites, the European crime thriller imported by Sony Pictures Classics averaged $7,233 for a total of $43,400.
At 64 sites, the PG-13 Green Diamond-released high school comedy Dirty Deeds, starring Milo Ventimiglia and Lacey Chabert, averaged $1,226 for $78,500.
Here's a rundown of the top 10 based on final studio tallies compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
1. The 40-Year-Old Virgin, $16.3 million
2. The Brothers Grimm, $15.1 million
3. Red Eye, $10.3 million
4. Four Brothers, $7.9 million
5. The Cave, $6.14 million
6. Wedding Crashers, $6.05 million
7. March of the Penguins, $4.7 million
8. The Skeleton Key, $4.5 million
9. Valiant, $3.5 million
10. The Dukes of Hazzard, $3.1 million
(Originally published Aug. 28, 2005 at 11:45 a.m. PT.)
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