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'Pirates' rules at box office, as 'Lady' flops
Sun Jul 23, 2006 12:11pm ET
LOS ANGELES, July 23 (Reuters) - The "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequel logged a third weekend as the most popular movie in North America, while the latest films from directors M. Night Shyamalan and Ivan Reitman both bombed, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.
Shyamalan's mystical fantasy "Lady in the Water" opened at No. 3 with $18.2 million, amid a critical pasting that got personal at times. The New York Post described Shyamalan as "a crackpot with a messianic delusions."
His last movie, "The Village," opened to $50 million in 2004 and stalled at $114 million -- half of what 2002's "Signs" finished up with. Shyamalan's 1999 breakthrough, "The Sixth Sense," earned $293.5 million.
The new movie was distributed by Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. Pictures, which said it had hoped for an opening in the mid-$20 million range. It cost in the mid-$50 million range to make.
Reitman's romantic comedy "My Super Ex-Girlfriend," which received only marginally better reviews, opened at No. 7 with $8.7 million. The Uma Thurman vehicle marked Reitman's first directing effort since the 2001 flop "Evolution."
"Girlfriend" was distributed by News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox, which had hoped for an opening in the mid-teens.
Walt Disney Co.'s "Pirates," meanwhile, was No. 1 with $35.0 million, as its total rose to $321.7 million after three weekends. It set a new speed record hitting $300 million, taking 16 days -- one day faster than last year's "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith."
© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.
Sun Jul 23, 2006 12:11pm ET
LOS ANGELES, July 23 (Reuters) - The "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequel logged a third weekend as the most popular movie in North America, while the latest films from directors M. Night Shyamalan and Ivan Reitman both bombed, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.
Shyamalan's mystical fantasy "Lady in the Water" opened at No. 3 with $18.2 million, amid a critical pasting that got personal at times. The New York Post described Shyamalan as "a crackpot with a messianic delusions."
His last movie, "The Village," opened to $50 million in 2004 and stalled at $114 million -- half of what 2002's "Signs" finished up with. Shyamalan's 1999 breakthrough, "The Sixth Sense," earned $293.5 million.
The new movie was distributed by Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. Pictures, which said it had hoped for an opening in the mid-$20 million range. It cost in the mid-$50 million range to make.
Reitman's romantic comedy "My Super Ex-Girlfriend," which received only marginally better reviews, opened at No. 7 with $8.7 million. The Uma Thurman vehicle marked Reitman's first directing effort since the 2001 flop "Evolution."
"Girlfriend" was distributed by News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox, which had hoped for an opening in the mid-teens.
Walt Disney Co.'s "Pirates," meanwhile, was No. 1 with $35.0 million, as its total rose to $321.7 million after three weekends. It set a new speed record hitting $300 million, taking 16 days -- one day faster than last year's "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith."
© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.
