The Keira Knightley costume drama The Duchess (my review is coming soon) had the best per-screen average of the weekend: $29,000 on each of seven screens. Small, Oscar-baiting releases did well, though. Perhaps last weekend’s celebrating over the improving box office was premature. Overall, though, the top slate doesn’t look so good compared to this time last year, when Resident Evil: Extinction took in $23.7 million and Good Luck Chuck took in $13.7 million, both over their opening weekends. That’s an economic reality that many, many GenXers, as the couple in the film are, will recognize. It’s also notable that the person who suggested this, the wife’s father, is clearly much better off, financially, than his daughter and her husband are. It’s dismissed by the couple without any discussion. What happens when you take on a mortgage in a plunging market and then are stuck with it? It’s perhaps notable that one character in the film, when informed of the difficulties the young couple are having with their new neighbor, suggests that they put the house back on the market, even if they have to take a loss on it. I have to wonder whether Lakeview Terrace hit some sort of tender spot in the zeitgeist at the moment: not one about racism but one about mortgage terror.
Righteous Kill: $7.7 million (dropping 53% in its 2nd week) My Best Friend’s Girl: $8.3 million (NEW)ĥ. Burn After Reading: $11.3 million (dropping 41% in its 2nd week)ģ. My head is so preoccupied with sheer terror and sputtering anger over this Wall Street bailout fiasco that it’s hard for me to focus on box office numbers today, which are positively puny when stacked up next to $700 billion or $1.8 trillion.
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