‘District 9′ Rules the Box Office
District 9’s director Neill Blomkamp recently said he’d love to make a sequel if the film was successful, jokingly throwing District 10 out there. Perhaps we just moved one step closer to that sequel after District 9 topped the US box office with $37M in its opening weekend.
Add a $7M international haul to the domestic take and Blomkamp’s first feature length film has already earned $14M more than its estimated budget of $30M. It opened bigger than Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening. That’s an impressive debut for a film that doesn’t feature big name stars like Tom Cruise or Mark Wahlberg.
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In second and third place at the weekend box office were two more sci-fi films, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra ($22.5M) and The Time Traveler’s Wife ($19.2M).
A big nod goes to Robert Schwentke’s The Time Traveler’s Wife which took its $19.2M from 2,988 screens, one of the best attendances ever for a romantic drama in any part of the year.
Source(s): Box Office Mojo / Variety
August 16th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
“It opened bigger than Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening. That’s an impressive debut for a film that doesn’t feature big name stars like Tom Cruise or Mark Wahlberg.”
That is so inspiring to read, a short filmmaker that leaps into the feature world and makes an amazing piece of cinema. I saw District 9 and loved every minute of it. Hoping District 10 will let us see other planets. I’m excited to see what they do next.