Reject Report Update: ‘3:10 to Yuma’ Does All The Shooting
Posted by John Cairns (jcairns@filmschoolrejects.com) on September 10, 2007
It was bound to happen. We all knew that the box office would go south in September with the summer season over, but what went down this weekend was pretty ridiculous.The top movie in the land, 3:10 to Yuma, made a crummy $14 million dollars!!! That Clive Owen shoot-em-up, called Shoot ‘Em Up, did even worse with $5.4 mil! Where is everyone?!?
That’s a lot of empty cinemas, all over North America! Maybe everyone’s in Toronto at the film festival there, which just started on Thursday. I know that’s where Paris Hilton is. She was spotted there last week, whooping it up. A lot of other stars and celebs are going to be there too. That’s about the only place in North America where theaters are still packed. Everywhere else, forget it.
And Halloween did some really crummy business this weekend. It dropped something like 61%, after its Labor Day weekend set some records at the ol’ box office.
The crummy numbers courtesy of Box Office Mojo:
| Release | Studio | Studio Estimate |
| 3:10 to Yuma (2007) | Lionsgate | $14,100,000 |
| Halloween (2007) | MGM / Weinstein | $10,034,000 |
| Superbad | Sony | $8,000,000 |
| Balls of Fury | Rogue | $5,693,000 |
| The Bourne Ultimatum | Universal | $5,478,000 |
| Shoot ‘Em Up | New Line | $5,450,000 |
| Rush Hour 3 | New Line | $5,330,000 |
| Mr. Bean’s Holiday | Universal | $3,387,000 |
| The Nanny Diaries | MGM / Weinstein | $3,321,000 |
| Hairspray (2007) | New Line | $1,950,000 |
This is not shaping up to be a great September.
The summer months, though, ended up being pretty good in the end thanks to big box office numbers for The Simpsons Movie, The Bourne Ultimatum and even Rush Hour 3. Of the late summer releases in the USA, The Bourne Ultimatum has so far made $210,099,000, The Simpsons made $180,337,000 and Rush Hour 3made $129,168,000. Hairspray is now up to $114,881,000 and the very last of the big summer releases, Superbad, is up to $103,668,000 and is still climbing.
I notice that Transformers is now up to $311,389,000 overall. In fact, it made more money this weekend than the new release The Brothers Solomon did. The Brothers Solomon finished in twenty-third place and made only $525,000!!! AND it got beat by Transformers this weekend, which got over $600,000! That’s really bad.
What can I say? It was a bad week all around at the box office. See you later this week for more REJECT REPORT.
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