From Darkhorizons, '"Cars" revved into first place at the box-office this weekend, the Pixar flick taking in a superb $62.8 million estimated haul over its three-day launch, the fourth highest opening movie of 2006. Whilst the total was impressive, the shine is off a little as the amount was a significant drop from the $70+ million that both "Finding Nemo" and "The Incredibles" enjoyed in their debuts.
No word if reviews had any impact - like all Pixar films they were positive but generally a little less so than previous movies. Over at Rotten Tomatoes the film scored an average 7.1/10 score from reviewers - by far the worst mark a Pixar film has gotten. Past efforts of the company have scored much higher like "Toy Story" (8.9/10), "Finding Nemo" (8.6/10), "Toy Story 2" (8.6/10), "The Incredibles" (8.3/10), "A Bug's Life" (8/10) and "Monsters Inc." (7.9/10).
Romantic drama "The Break-Up" held alright against the competition with a 48% drop to $20.5 million, and looks on its way to cruising over the $100 million mark. "X-Men: The Last Stand" has now well overtaken "The Da Vinci Code" and crossed the $200 million mark, the first film in 2006 to do so. Rival CG comedy "Over the Hedge" still held well with around $10.3 million and now sits with a very comfy $130.2 million total.
Despite its big opening day haul on Tuesday, "The Omen" cooled a little but still made a nice $15.5 million for Fox. Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion" did well on a large limited release front, managing to crack the top ten and earn a sweet $6,166 per theatre average. "Poseidon" continues to bomb badly and will probably dock at around $60 million by the end of its run, M:I-3 is cooling right off and looks to be ending with around $140 million - easily the series lowest.'
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Yay Cars, doing okay.
Unfortunately, I think there's some fundamental block with their choice of cars as the anthropomorphized characters in this movie. It's like an insurmountable weirdness that there's no inside to the cars. Maybe it's just me. I want it to do well, though.
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