‘Tropic Thunder’ Holds Onto #1 Spot
‘Tropic Thunder’ has managed to hold on to the top spot at the box office despite all the buzz and hype surrounding the 2008 Olympics. ‘The House Bunny’ came in at No. 2 - which was a bit of a surprise for many of us.
Ben Stiller’s action satire grossed a very nice $16.1 mil on a slight 38 percent drop, raising its two-week sum to a sweet $65.7 mil. It’s just the third movie of the summer to repeat at No. 1 (after Iron Man and The Dark Knight), the fifth film of the year to do so (21 and Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! also managed the feat), and the first R-rated flick of 2008 to return as champ.
Anna Faris’ Playboy-infused college comedy, The House Bunny, was next, with a sexy $15.1 mil gross, thanks to a crowd that was three-quarters female and two-thirds under the age of 25. All of which is pretty cool, but the fact that the ladies awarded the film a just-okay B+ CinemaScore means that its long-term box-office prospects aren’t so hot.
Elsewhere, The Dark Knight (No. 4 with $10.3 mil), which at $489.2 mil is now within Bat-spitting distance of the $500 mil domestic mark, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars (No. 5 with $5.7 mil) rounded out the top five. New releases The Longshots (No. 8 with $4.3 mil, despite a solid A CinemaScore) and The Rocker (No. 12 with $2.8 mil) lived up to their low expectations.