Buena Vista's road comedy with Tim Allen and John Travolta, WILD HOGS, debuted at the top of the box office chart for the weekend ended March 4, 2007, racking up $39.6M. David Fincher's gripping but cerebral ZODIAC bowed in second with $13.3M for Paramount (with vfx from Digital Domain and Matte World Digital). Third place belonged to last week's winner, GHOST RIDER, which raced home with another $11.5M (with vfx from Sony Pictures Imageworks). The Sony release now has a cume of $94.8M. Although it slipped a notch to fourth place, Buena Vista's BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA picked up an additional $8.9M (with vfx from Weta Digital), for a cume of $58.2M. New Line's THE NUMBER 23 settled for the fifth spot with $6.4M. With vfx by Intelligent Creatures, the Jim Carrey thriller now has a cume of $24.1M. Paramount/DreamWorks' NORBIT (with vfx from Digital Dimension) followed in sixth with $6.3M for a cume of $82.9M. Warner Bros.' MUSIC AND LYRICS occupied the seventh spot with $4.8M and a tally of $38.6M. Debuting in eighth with $4.1M was BLACK SNAKE MOAN from Paramount Vantage. Ninth place belonged to Fox's RENO 911!: MIAMI, with $3.9M and a total of $16.6M. The 10th place finisher was Universal's BREACH (with vfx by Mr. X), which took in $3.6M for a cume of $25.5M.
And in its third week, THE 2006 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED SHORT FILMS from Magnolia Pictures, added $18,857 on 13 screens for a total of $284, 248. Box office information obtained from boxofficemojo.com.
Bill Desowitz, former editor of VFXWorld, is currently the Crafts Editor of IndieWire.
