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Traffic Slows for 'Rush Hour 3'
14 August 2007 (StudioBriefing)
Ordinarily a film that grosses $49.1 million in its opening weekend is considered a probable moneymaker, but some box-office analysts are suggesting that the results for Rush Hour 3 are not only disappointing but probably point to an inevitable loss for Time Warner-owned New Line. They point out that the film cost more than $100 million (some suggest it cost as much as $150 million) to make and that as much as 40 percent of the gross has been promised to the two stars and the director -- including 20 percent that will go to Chris Tucker, 15 percent to Jackie Chan and 5 percent to director Brett Ratner. (The movie sold one-third fewer tickets than Rush Hour 2 did six years ago.) Meanwhile, last week's top film, The Bourne Ultimatum, slipped to second place in its second weekend with $32.9 million, while The Simpsons Movie moved to third place in its third weekend with $11.3 million. Three other films that opened over the weekend were outright flops. Paramount's Stardust, which reportedly soared way over budget to close to $200 million, earned just $9.2 million. Sony's Daddy Day Camp, which had initially been planned as a low-budget, straight-to-video release, earned just $3.4 million, while the horror film Skinwalkers took in a mighty skinny $753,520 (to come in at No. 17 on the list of top attractions).

The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Media by Numbers (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date): 1. Rush Hour 3, New Line, $49,100,158, (New); 2. The Bourne Ultimatum, Universal, $32,879,125, 2 Wks. ($131,552,425); 3. The Simpsons Movie, 20th Century Fox, $11,269,651, 3 Wks. ($152,381,993); 4. Stardust, Paramount, $9,169,779, (New); 5. Hairspray, New Line, $6,396,666, 4 Wks. ($92,139,670); 6. Underdog, Disney, $6,352,377, 2 Wks. ($24,643,289); 7. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Universal, $5,877,915, 4 Wks. ($103,777,170); 8. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Warner Bros., $5,432,130, 5 Wks. ($272,047,388); 9. No Reservations, Warner Bros., $3,855,029, 3 Wks. ($32,025,018); 10. Daddy Day Camp, Sony, $3,402,678, (New).

'Rush Hour' Traffic Slows a Bit
13 August 2007 (StudioBriefing)
Traffic was fairly heavy but not all that heavy for Rush Hour 3, which opened over the weekend with an estimated $50.2 million -- much less than the $67.4 million its predecessor, Rush Hour 2, earned six years ago. New Line said it performed as expected. Last week's winner, The Bourne Ultimatum, lost about half its audience in its second week as it pulled in about $33.7 million, bringing its ten-day total to $132.3 million. It appears headed toward becoming the only summer "three-quel" besides Live Free or Die Hard to exceed its predecessor's total gross. Other new releases crapped out, with the all-star Stardust pulling in an estimated $9 million and Daddy Day Camp managing to bring in a dismal $3.6 million (versus $27.6 million for the original Daddy Day Care in its debut weekend). The werewolf film Skinwalkers, which opened in 737 theaters, had no bite whatsoever as it scraped up an estimated $565,000. Still, the weekend's total gross was about 37 percent higher than the comparable weekend a year ago. "We've been riding a wave of momentum that started with Transformers in July," Media by Numbers President Paul Dergarabedian told the Associated Press. "We already stand at $3.6 billion at the box office. The $4 billion summer, once thought an impossibility, is definitely within reach."

The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Media by Numbers: 1. Rush Hour 3, 50.3 million; 2. The Bourne Ultimatum, $33.7 million; 3. The Simpsons Movie, $11.1 million; 4. Stardust, $9 million; 5. Underdog, $6.5 million; 6. Hairspray, $6.4 million; 7. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, $5.9 million; 8. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, $5.4 million; 9. No Reservations, $3.9 million; 10. Daddy Day Camp, $3.6 million.