Oscar contenders bomb at box office
It looks like movie goers have grown tired of serious, downer movies.
Gone Baby Gone, Rendition, and Things We Lost in the Fire all debuted with dismal numbers at the box office this weekend. All three Academy Award contenders were shot down by the horror flick 30 Days of Night starring Josh Hartnett. It debuted at number one with $16 million.
Even a re-released movie faired nearly as well than the other three films. A 3-D version of Tim Burton’s the Nightmare Before Christmas finished number 8 with $5.1 million, beating out Rendition.
Gone Baby Gone is Ben Affleck’s new movie starring his brother, Casey, and is about a kidnapping. Rendition stars Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal and is about terrorism, and Things We Lost in the Fire stars Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro. It’s about a widow who takes in her husband’s drug-addicted best friend.
Here are the top 10 movies:
1. 30 Days of Night, $16 million
2. Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married?, $12.1 million
3. The Game Plan, $8.1 million
4. Michael Clayton, $7.1 million
5. Gone Baby Gone, $6 million
6. The Comebacks, $5.85 million
7. We Own the Night, $5.5 million
8. Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, $5.1 million
9. Rendition, $4.2 million
10. The Heartbreak Kid, $3.9 million