WEEKEND REPORT :: October 25-27 2003

1.  Scary Movie 3 ($49.7 Million)
2.  Texas Chainsaw Massacre ($14.7 Million)
3.  Radio ($14.0 Million)
4.  Runaway Jury ($8.4 Million)
5.  Mystic River ($7.6 Million)
6.  School of Rock ($6.5 Million)
7.  Kill Bill (6.0 Million)
8.  Good Boy! ($4.9 Million)
9.  Intolerable Cruelty ($3.6 Million)
10.  Under the Tuscan Sun ($2.2 Million)

The big news of the weekend is the HUGE opening of Scary Movie 3. The spoof raked in $49.7 Million which totally blew away everybody’s expectations. This opening takes the record for the biggest October opening in history as well as Miramax’s biggest opening ever. Scary Movie 4, which ill focus on the superhero genre, is already in pre-production.

Several movies continued to hold on strong, including Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Mystic River and School of Rock(closing in on $70 million).  Runaway Jury had the lowest drop of any top 10 film, dropping to fourth place. This is one film that definitely seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle. It actually looks pretty decent, but I haven’t seen it and I don’t know anyone who has.

Other than Scary Movie 3, the weekend]s other new movies were disappointments. Radio, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. opened at a measly $13 million, perhaps signalling that the heartwarming retard genre may finally be running out of steam. Radio‘s $13 million opening looks downright incredible when you compare it to Beyond Borders, which didn’t even scrape the Top-10. This has been a bad year for Angelina Jolie and perhaps she will take this as a sign to get back to her roots, i.e.  taking off her clothes, making out with her brother and drinking blood.

NEXT WEEK: Ridley Scott’s Alien returns to the big screen, Anthony Hopkins is black in The Human Stain and Meg Ryan reportedly gets her salad tossed in In The Cut.