New movies split up last week’s top 4, lead by Samuel L. Jackson’s “Lakeview Terrace”

Samuel L. Jackson’s bad cop, bad neighbor thriller “Lakeview Terrace” (an Honorable Mention in my 15 movies to see preview !!) tops this week’s box office report, “My Best Friend’s Girl” was 3rd, the animated “Igor” was a respectful 4th… and as expected “Ghost Town” barely showed up in 8th place.. maybe because they didn’t start promoting it until just a few weeks out.. it also got bad reviews.    “Igor” didn’t need much promotion… it was a animated film… with no current competition… it was bound to do pretty well.

While “Burn After Reading” only fell to 2nd in its second week… its important to note that “Righteous Kill” fell fewer spots in its second week than “The Family That Preys” and “The Women”.

I’m seriously warning everyone about waiting for “Bangkok Dangerous” until it hits DVD… and then maybe even waiting a couple weeks, its gone from #1 to #8 to #16 in 3 weeks… CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED AGAIN!!!

Top 10 Weekend Box Office list this week (studio estimates):

1. “Lakeview Terrace” - $15.60 million (1st week)

2. “Burn After Reading” - $11.29 million

(2nd week, was #1 last week, lost 41% of its audience from last week)

3. “My Best Friend’s Girl” - $8.60 million (1st week)

4. “Igor” - $8.01 million (1st week)

5. “Righteous Kill” - $7.70 million

(2nd week, was #3 last week, lost 53% of its audience from last week)

6. “The Family That Preys” - $7.50 million

(2nd week, was #2 last week, lost 57% of its audience from last week)

7. “The Women” - $5.31 million

(2nd week, was #4 last week, lost 47% of its audience from last week)

8. “Ghost Town” - $5.17 million (1st week)

9. “The Dark Knight” - $2.95 million (total gross: $521.92 million)
(10th week, was #7 last week, lost 29% of its audience from last week)

10. “The House Bunny” - $2.80 million
(5th week, was #5 last week, lost 33% of its audience from last week)

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11. “Tropic Thunder” - $2.58 million
(6th week, was #6 last week, lost 38% from last week)

Chasing History:

“The Dark Knight” may end up falling short of closing the gap between itself ($521.92 million) and “Titanic” ($600.78 million) for the highest grossing movie ever in the U.S. !!

Although, there are plans to re-release it in January (for Academy Award push and of course.. more $$$$ !!!

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Box Office numbers courtesy Box Office Mojo

“Lakeview Terrace” poster courtesy Screen Gems

“The Dark Knight” poster courtesy Warner Bros.

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