Chihuahua Flick Tops US Box Office These be the end of days folks... Source: ERC Box Office
And, lo, The Book Of Revelations foretold of a catastrophic event. A hairless canine with pointy ears would come unto the earth and bring with it Armageddon... okay, not really, but mankind did take one serious step back away from enlightenment this weekend when US crowds flocked to see a movie about the adventures of a talking lap dog.
Walt Disney scored first place with its new family comedy, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, which opened to an estimated $29 million from 3,215 theaters. That marks the eighth-biggest debut for the month of October ever - click here to see for yourself why that is so very wrong.
In other, less shocking, news, DreamWorks' Eagle Eye, starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan dropped to second place with $17.7 million in its second weekend, bringing the D.J. Caruso-directed thriller's box office total to $54.6 million.
Indie flick Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist, with Michael Cera and Kat Dennings, fared well with a third spot entry raking in $12 million.
Richard Gere's latest weepie, Nights In Rodanthe, dropped two spots to number four, while Ed Harris' western Appaloosa moved up to the number five place for its third week in the top ten.
Other newcomers included David Zucker's An American Carol, Bill Maher's Religulous,the Anne Hathaway-starrer Rachel Getting Married, Greg Kinnear's Flash Of Genius, Fernando Meirelles' Blindness and Simon Pegg's latest How To Lose Friends & Alienate People.
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L: Karl Crutchley
The trouble is now this is successful, you just know the inevitable Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 & 3 will be hastily greenlit, whereas more deserving films such as Hellboy 3 are going to languish in development limbo hell.
just watched the trailer and it looks fine...just another dumb kids film. What's wrong with this movie making money? Cream floats, shit floats - what's the difference?
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
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I don't mind dogs nabbing the top spot (or any other animal for that matter) but the film looks terrible!!!!! Why did people think this looked good? Just stay home and rent Babe or something! ... Read More
L: Karl Crutchley
I can only assume all those on here saying, "its a kids film, about talking dogs, whats the problem?" never saw the trailer for this. Sweet Lincolns Mullet. Trailers are supposed to make a film look GOOD. This did not. Not even as a kids film. In fact I thought it was destined to be a straight to DVD film, not a number 1 box office smash. The trouble is now this is successful, you just know the inevitable Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 & 3 will be hastily greenlit, whereas... Read More
How shitballs like this go to number 1, whereas little gems like the awesome WAR INC with john cusack get shoved out of cinemas on to DVD. boggles the mind. ... Read More
Ere... forgive me but isn't this a childrens film!?
I don't like the Twenies, Power Rangers or High School musical but as a grown up... does it matter? I'm sure it's shit and most Empire readers won't be watching it and sure Pixar have raised the bar in terms of childrens (big-kids) movies but still... is our opion actually relevant for this type of film after all we're not it's intended demographic are we? ... Read More
