Cloverfield roars, Mad Money bores
Posted on January 21st, 2008 by Hot Momma
Perhaps not surprisingly, “Cloverfield” the dazzling, monster movie, was tops at the box office this weekend. It brought in $41 million enough to pass the 1997 Star Wars: Special Edition re-release ($35.9 mil). It also broke the record with the biggest January opening of all time. Unfortunately, the same can not be said for Katie Holmes’ “Mad Money,” which tanked. Despite a publicity blitz that brought Katie Holmes to nearly every major TV talk show to talk up the movie. Mad Money only brought in $7.7 million in over 2,400 locations, and the movie cost $22 million to make. Holmes was widely criticized as the worst part of the film — The New York Times called her “the movie’s weakest link.” She reportedly passed on the Batman sequel in order to do this flop.
The rest of the box office weekend looked like this:
1. Cloverfield – $41 million
2. 27 Dresses – $22.4 million
3. The Bucket List – $15.1 million
4. Juno – $10.2 million
5. National Treasure: Book Of Secrets – $8.1 million
6. First Sunday – $7.8 million
7. Mad Money – $7.7 million
8. Alvin And The Chipmunks – $7 million
9. I Am Legend – $5.1 million
10. Atonement – $4.7 million
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