Put Your Wallet Where Officer Sam Can See It [Monday Morning Box Office]

Put Your Wallet Where Officer Sam Can See It [Monday Morning Box Office]
We're finding out the hard way this morning that an Emmy hangover is the worst kind of malaise: All rank breath, regrets and resentment, bundled up in a headache of knowing there must be something else you missed while watching the television industry implode. And now we know — it was an only slightly less torpid weekend at the movies. Still, it's never too late to wash down some of that bitter aftertaste with a run through the Monday Morning Box Office:

1. Lakeview Terrace — $15.6 million

Well, we nailed this one, finally locking down the complex Audience Demand Formula™ for Lakeview's known quantities: Samuel Jackson as a bad guy multiplied by interracial lust, raised to the negative power of Neil LaBute's post-Wicker Man directorial efforts, and that total divided by R-rated date-movie competition from Dane Cook. You try it!

2. Burn After Reading — $11.3 million

The Coens' latest dropped barely 40% in its second week, forcing hive-mind Clooney haters to spike their semi-annual "George can't open!" pieces for at least two years until he returns in the admittedly challenging Men Who Stare At Goats. At which time all bets are off, even ours.

3. My Best Friend's Girl — $8.3 million

Or about $5 million less than tracking indicated. Maybe Dane Cook was right — his vagina-like face doesn't sell tickets after all.

4. Igor — $8 million

All over America, families warmed to the story of a hunchback pursuing his lifelong dream of becoming a second-rate bit of animation left to dangle in the marketplace by Harvey Weinstein to the tune of $3400 per screen.

5. Righteous Kill — $7.7 million.

Go ahead — insert your "De Niro and Pacino kept it up for a whole week" jokes here.
Published 9/22/08 by


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