Hollywood ejected the last of its springtime crap as it braces for the summer box office onslaught. The new offerings this week were so bad that Disturbia managed to stay in the top spot for the third weekend in a row. To add insult to injury, Disturbia is officially the first movie of the year to go top the chart for three weeks in a row. That's just about the saddest thing the box office has seen since Scary Movie opened at number one.
Teen-bop horror/thriller The Invisible took second place, just nosing out Nicholas Cage's recook of last year's Deja Vu, Next. Stone Cold Steve Austin's new release The Condemned was even more stone cold than it's wannabe-actor star. It pulled in just $4 million dollars at ninth place. The fourth new film, Jamie Kennedy's Kickin' It Old Skool couldn't even kick it into the top ten. With only $2.8 million it was lucky to make number eleven. Perhaps Kennedy should consider a career in Uwe Boll films. Anyone with his ability to make a movie tank would be beloved in Boll's camp. For the rest of the top ten, check out the chart below.
Brace yourselves, folks, the lines at the theater are about to get out of control again. Next weekend Spiderman 3 kicks off the summer smash-fest in an almost record 4000 theaters. A very unlucky Lucky You will go head to head with the web slinger. Despite the presences of rom-com princess Drew Barrymore and dramatic brooder Eric Bana, the movie can only hope to make a tenth of what Spidey will likely catch in his web.
The real question is whether or not Spider-man 3 whose predecessors have taken it to the bank in style, can make its own footprint in box office history. Last summer's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest holds the record for biggest opening weekend at $135.6 million. Bear in mind that Spider-man 2 didn't do so well as the first film. Can Spidey rally back and outshine them all or will the trilogy go out in mediocrity? It's been a long, dry spring and this is the first refreshing thing to roll audience's way. I say look for Spiderman 3 to be the best of the 3, especially at the box office.
