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Tuesday, May 18, 2004
'Troy' slays competition at the box office
Muscle-bound Brad Pitt fought his way through scrawnier competition to help the Greek epic "Troy" claim the top spot at the box office with $46.9 million.
A handful of older movies aimed at teenagers continued to dominate the top 10. Lindsay Lohan's high school comedy "Mean Girls" continued its strong run with $10.1 million for third place, dropping only 26 percent in its third week. "13 Going on 30" fell only 28 percent to earn $4.1 million for sixth place. Even the Olsen twins' bomb "New York Minute" fell by a relatively small 37 percent to earn $3.8 million in seventh place.
Most movies this time of year see earnings drop 50 percent or more each week. That was the case with the Dracula, Wolf Man and Frankenstein action-adventure "Van Helsing," which saw 61 percent of its audience turn to dust in its second week, falling to No. 2 with $20.7 million for a cumulative total of $85.1 million.
Despite the apparently strong earnings for "Troy" and "Van Helsing," their massive budgets and the intensity of the summer movie competition suggest they will have a hard time earning their money back in North American theaters.
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