TOP 10: September doldrums for DICKIE

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Monday, September 08, 2003

For the first weekend since May of this year, the box office failed to produce a movie that earned more than $10 million dollars. Welcome to the weekend after Labor Day.

David Spade has bragging rights for the top movie at theaters, with Paramount's DICKIE ROBERTS: FORMER CHILD STAR taking pole position this past weekend. Even so, Spade's film just squeaked by last week's number one film, JEEPERS CREEPERS 2, by less than 300k. And even more telling than that, less than two million separated DICKIE ROBERTS from PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, now in its ninth week of release. What is it about films with ships and young lovers that audiences can't get enough of?

(Psst! Here's some free advice to Warner Bros.: get Orlando Bloom's agent on the phone this week and offer him the SUPERMAN movie role. Team him up with Christian Bale as your new Dark Knight, find a way to slip in a nautical vessel and BAM!, it's a license to print money!)

The week's other major new release, 20th Century Fox's THE ORDER, came in sixth place with only $4.3 M. That's a disappointment; perhaps the thriller might have played better in October.

Also, a quick look at the chart indicates that FREAKY FRIDAY is poised to cross the $100 M mark next weekend. It will be the twenty-first film of 2003 to pass nine figures domestic.

Next week: Ridley Scott's MATCHSTICK MEN, Eli Roth's CABIN FEVER and Robert Rodriguez's ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO. Something tells me there'll be more money flowing into theaters in just five short days.

Here's the list of the top grossing films from September 5 to 7, their weekend gross and the film's total domestic gross to date:

1. DICKIE ROBERTS: FORMER CHILD STAR $7,000,000 $7,000,000
2. JEEPERS CREEPERS 2/b> $6,716,000 $$27,440,000
3. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL $5,482,000 $282,042,000
4. FREAKY FRIDAY $5,125,000 $97,168,000
5. S.W.A.T. $4,600,000 $108,800,000
6. THE ORDER $4,310,000 $4,310,000
7. OPEN RANGE $4,031,000 $49,138,000
8. SEABISCUIT $3,667,000 $109,604,000
9. FREDDY VS. JASON $3,175,000 $78,282,000
10. UPTOWN GIRLS $2,450,000 $33,567,000


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