Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood: Weekend Box Office In Review
If you were brave enough to stop watching DVD’s and actually venture outdoors this sweltering weekend, the cineplex rule of Captain Jack Sparrow came to an end. Michael Mann’s Miami Vice took the top spot this weekend with $25.2 million. Here’s Nikki on the news…
Nostalgia for Crockett and Tubbs, plus a grittier look and story, made Universal’s Miami Vice the No. 1 movie at the box office, knocking off month-long Disney blockbuster, Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest. This was Michael Mann’s biggest movie opening of his directorial career as Vice took in $8.8 mil Friday and $9.1 mil Saturday for what was a less-than-anticipated $25.2 mil finish. Then again, the pic was playing in only 3,021 theaters, so its per-screen average was a respectable $8,340. (Mann’s last big film, Collateral, starring Tom Cruise in his first villain role, opened at $24.7 mil and went on to gross a 4x multiple of its domestic opening weekend — getting past $100 mil.)
Source: Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood