Brendan Bests Batman
August 8th, 2008 Posted in film buzz
There haven’t really been any new stories at the box office the last few weeks with The Dark Knight cleaning up on its way to a $400 million plus summer. In an effort to stir up a little competition I guess I could point out that while the caped crusader narrowly beat out the new Mummy movie by earning $42.7 million to the latter’s $40.5 Million, when Brendan Fraser’s two films managed to accumulate around $47.2 million. Does that make Brendan Fraser this weekend’s Box office champion? Probably not, but he certainly made his mark with ultimately forgettable flicks.
After the top two takers this weekend there was quite the drop off. Step Brothers took third place with $16.5 million and Mamma Mia continued to scrape up some loose change at the number 4 spot with $12.6 Million.
Apparently August is too early for the viewing public to have politics on the brain as Swing Vote, starring Kevin Costner came in at a disappointing sixth place in its debut. In the Summer of Superhero Love all other comers are destined to dwindle into box office obscurity.
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