| Title | Weekend Gross | Total Gross | | Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | $29,000,000 | $67,840,000 | | The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause | $16,893,000 | $41,052,000 | | Flushed Away | $16,710,000 | $39,931,000 | | Stranger Than Fiction | $14,100,000 | $14,100,000 | | Saw III | $6,600,000 | $69,879,000 | | Babel | $5,651,000 | $7,488,000 | | The Departed | $5,240,000 | $109,778,000 | | The Return | $4,776,000 | $4,776,000 | | The Prestige | $4,630,000 | $46,037,000 | | A Good Year | $3,775,000 | $3,775,000 | It is now official, Borat is both a critical and commercial success. It seems as though scaling down the initial release was a bold yet brilliant move by the Executives at Fox. By scaling down the release they made Borat an instant hit and a conversational centerpiece. Interesting enough Borat is one of those rare movies that instead of loosing a percentage of its audience it actually gained an audience. It seems as though all the press Borat is receiving both positive and negative is helping Fox sell more movie tickets. By the time this movie is done making money I am sure it will be well into the $400 million mark of course I am including Dvd sales and Tv rights. The Santa Clause 3 maintained its grip on Borat’s coat tails and is still in the second spot for its second straight week. This movie might not be the failure everyone thought it might be. Flushed Away also kept its same spot from last weekend at number 3. Seems though none of the new releases had any impact on last weekends releases. I was sure that Will Ferrell’s Stranger than Fiction was going to cause major damage this past weekend. It was a sad and disappointing weekend for him at number 4. The Departed and The Prestige both are keeping a strong grip on the top 10 with $5 million and $4 million respectively. Seeing the box office results for A Good Year put a smile on my face. The last time Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe teamed up they made close to half a Billion dollars. This time they couldn’t even managed to make $5 million. This is the second bomb for Crowe and hopefully this will humble Mr. Crowe. Even though I doubt this guy is in it for the money. I am sure he has plenty of money and now only does it for the craft. Still, I really dislike him. This weekend saw a lot of disappointing openings and a few surprises. Borat is going to continue to make a disgusting amount of money for Fox and solidify Sacha Baron Cohen’s greatness. Next week the new 007 movie is coming out and I am excited to see it.
As always click on the title of any of the movies to watch the trailer.
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