Poster for Saw 3
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Weekend Box Office Report: Saw Scares
By: Karl SchneiderDate: Monday, October 30, 2006
Once again proving that it doesn't take a budget north of $100 million to make a lot of money at theaters, the hottest horror franchise easily grabbed the top spot for the weekend managing a healthy $34 million in it's opening weekend. With a budget estimated at $12 million before advertising, Saw III is a lock to turn a very healthy profit as well as spawn a sequel for Halloween 2007.
The Departed continues one of the most amazing box office runs in quite a while, dropping only 26% and leap-frogging The Prestige to nab the second spot with $9.8 million. If you haven't seen the film yet, do yourself a favor and go check it out.
While The Prestige wasn't strong enough to hang onto second place, it put up a great second weekend number in $9.6 million. The drop of only 35% should mean good things for the film's legs in the weeks to come.
Outside of the top three there wasn't a whole lot of action. The Grudge 2 fell hard, as was expected with the direct competition from Saw. Aside from that ... not much to report.
So, until next week ...
1 SAW III $34,300,000 New $34,300,000
2 THE DEPARTED $9,840,000 -26.9% $91,090,000
3 THE PRESTIGE $9,626,000 -35.0% $28,834,000
4 FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS $6,350,000 -38.0% $19,926,000
5 OPEN SEASON $6,100,000 -25.3% $77,357,000
6 FLICKA $4,975,000 -35.4% $14,138,000
7 MAN OF THE YEAR $4,714,000 -32.0% $28,871,000
8 THE GRUDGE 2 $3,300,000 -56.9% $36,016,000
9 MARIE ANTOINETTE $2,850,000 -46.8% $9,756,000
10 RUNNING WITH SCISSORS $2,550,000 +1,027.8% $2,884,000
