Good ol’ Adam
A lot of people seem to like the “new” Adam Sandler. But in Hollywood, money talks, and it says audiences really like the old Sandler (first figure is total domestic gross, second is opening weekend, in millions):
1
Big Daddy
$163.5
$41.5, 1999
2
The Waterboy
$161.5
$39.4, 1998
3
The Longest Yard
$158.1
$47.6, 2005
4
Anger Management
$135.6
$42.2, 2003
5
Mr. Deeds
$126.3
$37.2, 2002
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Box office
Here are last week’s gross revenues in millions of dollars at North American theaters for the top 15 films, followed by total amount grossed and number of weeks in release in parentheses.
1
Cars
$33.7
$117.1 (two weeks)
2
Nacho Libre
$28.3 (one week)
3
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift:
$24 (one week)
4
The Lake House
$13.6 (one week)
5
The Break-Up
$9.8
$92.3 (three weeks)
6
X-Men: The Last Stand
$7.8
$216.2 (four weeks)
7
Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties
$7.3 (one week)
8
The Omen
$5.6
$47.2 (two weeks)
9
The Da Vinci Code
$5.3
$198.8 (five weeks)
10
Over the Hedge
$4.3
$139 (five weeks)
11
A Prairie Home Companion
$2.8
$9.1 (two weeks)
12
An Inconvenient Truth
$1.9
$6.6 (four weeks)
13
Mission: Impossible III
$1.3
$130.2 (seven weeks)
14
Poseidon
$633,288
$56.5 (six weeks)
15
The Shaggy Dog
$604,547
$60.2 (15 weeks)
National: CBS, first; ABC, second; Fox, third; NBC, fourth
Network evening news: NBC’s Nightly News, first; ABC’s World News Tonight, second; CBS’s Evening News, third
Local 10 p.m. news: KUSA-Channel 9, first; KCNC-Channel 4, second; KMGH-Channel 7, third
1. NBA Finals Game 5: Dallas at Miami, ABC, 14.3 million viewers
2. CSI: Miami, CBS, 13.5 million viewers
3. NBA Finals Game 3: Dallas at Miami, ABC, 12.2 million viewers
4. NBA Finals Game 4: Dallas at Miami, ABC. 11.6 million viewers
5. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, 11.2 million viewers
6. Without a Trace, CBS, 10.6 million viewers
7. So You Think You Can Dance – Wednesday, Fox, 9.94 million viewers
8. Two and a Half Men, CBS, 9.87 million viewers
9. Law & Order: SVU, NBC, 9.7 million viewers
10. CBS Sunday Movie: What Women Want, CBS, 9.6 million viewers
11. NCIS, CBS, 9.2 million viewers
12. 60 Minutes, CBS, 9.1 million viewers
13. Last Comic Standing 4, NBC, 9.02 million viewers
14. Dateline NBC, NBC, 8.97 million viewers
15. Cold Case, CBS, 8.4 million viewers
16. AFI’s 100 Years 100 Cheers, CBS, 8.3 million viewers
17. The New Adventures of Old Christine, CBS, 8.28 million viewers
18. So You Think You Can Dance – Thursday, Fox, 8.18 million viewers
19. House, Fox, 7.9 million viewers
20. Windfall, NBC, 7.8 million viewers
