`INVINCIBLE' IS UNBEATABLE IN SECOND WEEK DISNEY FINISHES A FINE SUMMER WITH WAHLBERG FOOTBALL DRAMA.Byline: GREG HERNANDEZ Staff Writer A winning summer at the box office for Disney ended on a high note with its football drama ``Invincible'' tackling the competition to finish in first place over the Labor Day Labor Day, holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by the U.S. Congress in 1894. weekend. The film spent its second weekend at No. 1 with a four-day total of $15.2 million, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. studio estimates released Monday. It has grossed $37.8 million in less than two weeks. Starring Mark Wahlberg For the actor and television game show host, see Mark L. Walberg. Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5 1971) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and television producer. , it is based on the true-life story of Vincent Papale's rookie rookie a novice; often an athlete playing his first season as a member of a professional sports team. [Sports: Misc.] See : Inexperience season in the National Football League as a 31-year-old walk-on. ``It's really great to see a movie of this quality hang in there and take over No. 1 two weeks in a row,'' said Chuck Viane, president of Disney's Buena Vista Distribution
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. is the motion picture and television feature distribution company owned by The Walt Disney Company. . The success of ``Invincible'' gives Disney a summer of four releases and four hits, including the season's two highest-grossing movies, ``Pirates of the Caribbean This article is about the franchise. For other, more specific uses, see Pirates of the Caribbean (disambiguation). For real pirates, see Piracy in the Caribbean. Pirates of the Caribbean : Dead Man's Chest'' and ``Cars,'' as well as the surprise hit ``Step Up.'' Their combined domestic gross was $767 million, with ``Pirates'' taking in more than $412 million so far, the sixth-highest domestic gross of all time. ``To end up winning the summer season and to have all four movies end up being terrific, that says a lot about our slate and where we're going and what we're trying to do,'' Viane said. New releases ``Crank'' and ``The Wicker Man'' opened in second and third place, respectively. ``Crank,'' released by Lionsgate, grossed an estimated $13 million over the four days, while ``Wicker,'' distributed by Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) ., took in $11.7 million. Fox Searchlight's ``Little Miss Sunshine'' finished in fourth place after expanding to 1,602 locations, its widest release yet. The word-of- mouth hit took in an estimated $9.7 million for a six-week total of $35.8 million so far. ``The sun shone shone v. A past tense and a past participle of shine. shone Verb a past of shine shone shine brightly on `Sunshine' this week,'' said Sheila Sheila is a common given name for a female, taken from the Gaelic name Síle/Sìle, which is believed to be a Gaelic form of Julia or Cecilia. Like "Cecil" or "Cecilia", the name means "Smart and Wise", from the Latin caecus. Deloach, Searchlight's general sales manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → . ``It's building and it's building.'' In fifth place was the drama ``The Illusionist,'' which enjoyed a surge in business as it added 827 theaters for a total of 971. The period drama starring Edward Norton, Jessica Biel and Paul Giamatti took in an estimated $8 million, with the highest per-screen average ($8,281) of any film in wide release. Distributed by Yari Film Group, it will expand to 1,400 locations next weekend and has grossed $12 million so far. Labor Day weekend is typically a slow moviegoing period and officially brings an end to the summer movie season, which started the first weekend in May. Revenue during that four-month period totaled $3.84 billion, up 6 percent from summer 2005. Attendance was up by 2.84 percent, according to the box office tracking firm Exhibitor Relations Co. ``Moviegoers were more satisfied in general than they were last year,'' said Exhibitor Relations President Paul Dergarabedian. ``This is not a record-breaking summer by any means, but it was pretty consistent and solid.'' greg.hernandez(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3758 TOP MOVIES Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Monday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. Final figures will be released today. 1. ``Invincible,'' $15.2 million. 2. ``Crank,'' $13 million. 3. ``The Wicker Man For other uses, see The Wicker Man (disambiguation). The Wicker Man was a large wicker statue of a human allegedly used by the ancient Druids for human sacrifice by burning it in effigy, according to Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico ( ,'' $11.7 million. 4. ``Little Miss Sunshine,'' $9.7 million. 5. ``The Illusionist,'' $8 million. 6. ``Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,'' $7.7 million. 7. ``Barnyard: The Original Party Animals,'' $6.4 million. 8. ``Accepted,'' $5.9 million. 9. ``World Trade Center,'' $5.8 million. 10. ``Step Up,'' $5.5 million. CAPTION(S): box Box: TOP MOVIES (see text) |
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