Paramount's `Kung Fu Panda' Is No. 1 With $60 Million in Sales I have a feeling we are in for a very hard opening on monday due to all the technical breakdowns on friday and the general market sentiment.
Other than that we should have seen a nice little pop for the stock!
``Kung Fu Panda,'' the animated comedy starring Jack Black, was the weekend's top film, taking in $60 million in ticket sales for Viacom Inc. and DreamWorks Animation SKG.
Adam Sandler's ``You Don't Mess With the Zohan,'' from Sony Corp., opened in second place with sales of $40 million, box- office tracker Media By Numbers said today in an e-mailed statement.
``Panda'' follows the misadventures of a lazy bear, voiced by Black, who tries to master martial arts to save his friends from a gang of leopards. The film was produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Viacom's Paramount Pictures. It is the fourth Paramount-released film to open in first place this year.
In ``Panda,'' Black's character studies with a group of legendary martial arts masters. His slacker personality collides with their highly disciplined approach to self-defense. Some of the actors providing other voices include Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan and Angelina Jolie.
``You Don't Mess With the Zohan'' stars Sandler as an Israeli special forces operative who has tired of war. He fakes his own death and moves to the U.S. to become a hairdresser. John Turturro and Emmanuelle Chriqui co-star.
``Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' from Viacom Inc.'s Paramount, took third place at $22.8 million; Time Warner Inc.'s ``Sex and the City,'' the film version of the television series, was fourth at $21.3 million; NBC Universal's ``The Strangers '' finished fifth at $9.29 million.
Rounding out the top 10 were: Paramount's ``Iron Man'' in sixth place at $7.52 million; Walt Disney Co.'s ``The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian'' was No. 7 at $5.53 million; News Corp.'s ``What Happens in Vegas'' was ranked eighth with $3.4 million; ``Baby Mama'' from General Electric Co.'s Universal Pictures, was in ninth place with $779,090; and Sony Corp.'s ``Made of Honor'' was 10th with $775,000. |