Weekend Box Office Report: Museum still tops

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Sunday, December 31, 2006

The last film to top the weekend box office in 2006 will be Night at the Museum.  The film claims the spot for the second weekend in a row with a gross of over $37 million for the weekend.  That number is likely to drop to about $34 or $35 million when the actual numbers come out, but it is still a terrific gross for a film that is on it's way to over $200 million.

In second place we find Will Smith's Pursuit of Happyness with an estimated $19.3 million which puts the films total thus far just below the $100 million mark.

In other news ...

The musical Dreamgirls is off to a fantastic start, pulling in $15.5 million this weekend for a total of over $38 million.  Just about every film saw an increase from the previous weekend with the exception of Rocky Balboa which fell off by 6.6%.  Still, Rocky has made almost $50 million to date on a budget of only $25 million and it's still got a lot more money to earn, so nothing to worry about there.

The fantasy war film Pan's Labyrinth also opened this weekend on 17 screens in select cities.  It pulled in a per theater average of $35,000 for a total of $595,000 over the weekend.  A solid start for the film which expands wide on January 19th.

Until next week ...

1) Night at the Museum - 37.80 (116,855,000)
2) The Pursuit of Happyness - 19.30 (98,346,000)
3) Dreamgirls - 15.50 (38,464,000)
4) Charlotte's Web - 12.00 (52,858,000)
5) Rocky Balboa - 11.35 (48,822,000)
6) The Good Shepherd - 11.25 (35,311,000)
7) Eragon - 8.48 (56,689,000)
8) We Are Marshall - 8.03 (25,063,000)
9) Happy Feet - 7.84 (176,152,000)
10) The Holiday - 6.78 (50,011,000)
11) Blood Diamond - 5.00 (35,831,000)
12) Casino Royale - 4.50 (153,425,000)
13) Black Christmas - 4.12 (11,272,000)
14) Apocalypto - 3.40 (42,792,000)