Debuting on only 800 screens, the religious-themed drama about firefighters proves that marketing to a niche audience is a great idea.
The fourth place film, with $6.514 million at the box office is Kirk Cameron (!!) in Fireproof. The film that slides into fourth place is, well, kind of odd.
Burn After Reading, last week’s second place film, rounds out the top five with a fifth-place $6.169 million. Samuel Jackson’s latest, Lakeview Terrace, falls from its lofty perch last week to third this week, bringing in an additional $7 million after topping last week’s box office (which I stupidly forgot to write about, feel free to kick me in the comments). Let’s move on before I bust a blood vessel in my brain trying to figure this out.
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Either that or he’s the biggest genius at picking scripts Hollywood has ever seen, because he’s made more money at the box office over the last two years than anyone except Christian Bale (and all his box office points have come from one mighty movie which finally fell out of the top 10 this week). I have no idea what in the hell Shia the Beef’s appeal is, but apparently he’s got it. His new movie, Eagle Eye, has taken number one this weekend with an impressive $29.2 million box office debut. His debut film, Holes, made $67 million in 2003. He made $316 million and counting off of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and in 2007 he grossed over $485 million between turns in Disturbia, Surf’s Up, and Transformers. His lifetime gross is nearly $975 million in the United States alone. Shia LaBeouf is somehow the biggest star on the planet, and I have absolutely no idea how or why he’s gotten this way.