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Eminem’s ‘8 Mile’ Debuts at No. 1
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Eminem hip-hopped over the movie competition as his film debut “8 Mile” collected $51.2 million in its opening weekend.
That was more than double the amount of second-place “The Santa Clause 2,” which had $24.7 million in its second week, but slightly less than Sunday’s estimated returns of $54.5 million for “8 Mile.”
Universal Pictures reported that about 30 percent of the audience for the R-rated film was older than 25.
“I think everybody was wondering what all the fuss was about,” said box-office analyst Robert Bucksbaum of Reel Source Inc. “People who wouldn’t necessarily spend money on his album or a soundtrack, were just drawn in by the music, the critics and the director, Curtis Hanson.”
Hanson shared a screenwriting Academy Award in 1998 for “L.A. Confidential,” which he also directed. His other films have included “Wonder Boys” and “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.”
“8 Mile” co-stars Kim Basinger as Eminem’s mother and Brittany Murphy as his love interest. The setting is the impoverished Eight Mile neighborhood of Detroit, where Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, was raised.
The film got positive reviews in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Rolling Stone, USA Today and Entertainment Weekly. Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan praised the film, but described it as a “somebody-up-there-likes-me” story that allows “audiences to feel the safety and security of familiarity that’s simply not in the cards when listening to Eminem’s earlier, more nasty and threatening work.”
The top 20 movies at North American theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. and Nielsen EDI Inc. are:
1. “8 Mile,” Universal, $51.2 million, 2,470 locations, $20,745 average, $51.2 million, one week.
2. “The Santa Clause 2,” Disney, $24.7 million, 3,352 locations, $7,379 average, $60 million, two weeks.
3. “The Ring,” DreamWorks, $15.5 million, 2,927 locations, $5,298 average, $85.6 million, four weeks.
4. “I Spy,” Sony, $8.8 million, 3,182 locations, $2,769 average, $24.4 million, two weeks.
5. “Jackass: The Movie,” Paramount, $7.1 million, 2,532 locations, $2,807 average, $53.2 million, three weeks.
6. “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” IFC Films, $5.8 million, 1,975 locations, $2,964 average, $192.8 million, 30 weeks.
7. “Sweet Home Alabama,” Disney, $3.8 million, 2,004 locations, $1,902 average, $118.5 million, seven weeks.
8. “Ghost Ship,” Warner Bros., $3.1 million, 2,361 locations, $1,337 average, $26.1 million, three weeks.
9. “Femme Fatale,” Warner Bros., $2.7 million, 1,066 locations, $2,604 average, $3.4 million, one week.
10. “Frida,” Miramax, $2.7 million, 319 locations, $8,634 average, $4.5 million, three weeks.
11. “Punch-Drunk Love,” Sony, $2.5 million, 1,293 locations, $1,935 average, $14.5 million, five weeks.
12. “Red Dragon,” Universal, $1.5 million, 1,324 locations, $1,180 average, $91.4 million, six weeks.
13. “Bowling for Columbine,” MGM-UA, $1.5 million, 222 locations, $7,024 average, $6.7 million, five weeks.
14. “Star Wars: Episode II รณ Attack of the Clones,” Fox-IMAX, $1.3 million, 58 locations, $23,963 average, $2.7 million ($303.6 million total domestic gross), two weeks in large-format IMAX theaters.
15. “Tuck Everlasting,” Disney, $1.08 million, 1,090 locations, $997 average, $17.6 million, five weeks.
16. “Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie,” Artisan, $1.06 million, 1,497 locations, $710 average, $23.1 million, six weeks.
17. “Barbershop,” MGM, $1.05 million, 984 locations, $1,074 average, $74 million, nine weeks.
18. “Brown Sugar,” Fox Searchlight, $1.03 million, 649 locations, $1,599 average, $26 million, five weeks.
19. “The Tuxedo,” DreamWorks, $649,104, 755 locations, $860 average, $49.1 million, seven weeks.
20. “The Transporter,” Fox, $588,301, 569 locations, $1,034 average, $24.5 million, five weeks.