TOP 10: S.W.A.T. owns the house

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Monday, August 11, 2003

If you're the producer of a 1970s TV series that hasn't been optioned for a movie just yet, I bet you're relieved that Columbia Pictures' S.W.A.T. took number one spot at the box office this past weekend. The big budget remake earned an estimated $37 million dollars over three days, better than what the Columbia beancounters figured the picture would make. It's just a matter of time before someone turns POLICE WOMAN into a $80 M dollar picture.

Disney's FREAKY FRIDAY paid off nicely for the studio, netting $22 M over the weekend and bringing the film's total to $33 M. Last week's number one champ, AMERICAN WEDDING, dropped to third place with $15 M while PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN is still chugging along and earning eight figures each weekend.

FINDING NEMO is now less than $3 M away from beating THE LION KING as the all-time highest grossing animated film. The Pixar extravaganza should cross that line sometime next weekend.

And what about GIGLI? Ben and Jen's flick dropped more than an astounding 80% this week. You know when someone says that a film's a bomb? GIGLI isn't any old bomb; this film is the neutron bomb of modern cinema. They might not even make the cost of the production's catering bill back.

Next week: two movie maniacs enter the ring, Kevin Costner mounts up, teens shred pavement, and grass gets kicked.

Here's the list of the top grossing films from August 8 to 10, their weekend gross and the film's total gross to date:

1. S.W.A.T. $33,000,000 $33,000,000
2. FREAKY FRIDAY $22,300,000 $33,200,000
3. AMERICAN WEDDING $15,100,000 $64,900,000
4. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL $13,100,000 $232,800,000
5. SEABISCUIT $11,900,000 $69,500,000
6. SPY KIDS 3-D $10,130,000 $87,442,000
7. BAD BOYS II $6,000,000 $123,000,000
8. LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: THE CRADLE OF LIFE $5,200,000 $53,700,000
9. FINDING NEMO $2,500,000 $324,866,000
10. TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES $1,600,000 $145,983,000


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