Flightplan Still Top Of US Weekend Box Office Chart

All publicity is good publicity. Look at Flightplan - a slightly hokey-looking thriller set on an aeroplane. It was doing OK box office business, then came the bizarre furore.

All the real flight attendants in America this week tried to organise a big Flightplan boycott because some of the pretend flight attendants in the movie were arseholes. But this only made everyone else want to see what all the fuss was about, and so Flightplan gets a second week at the top of the US weekend box office chart.

To be fair, the ongoing success of Flightplan probably wasn’t
entirely down to a bunch of shitty stewardesses kicking up a stink
because they can’t tell fiction from fact. There’s a chance that it
hung around at number one because there are no other decent mainstream
films around at the moment. The nearest thing to that is Serenity -
like a Buffy The Vampire Slayer space western based on a failed TV
show - and that doesn’t exactly scream out populist.
Here’s this week’s US weekend box office chart…

1 - Flightplan (We’re waiting for a hokey thriller to be made about
a UK-based entertainment blog, so that we can boycott that, too. It
looks like a fun thing to do) $15,038,000

2 - Serenity (It’s a space gun bang boom kapow movie. Why is it
called Serenity? Hey Joss, call your next film Laser Death Mutant Nazi
Massacre. Maybe it’ll get to number one if you do) $10,141,000

3 - Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride? That’s no way to talk about Helena Bonham Carter) $9,755,000

4 - A History Of Violence (A film so bleak that we spent almost ten
minutes staring into the middle distance after it was finished,
unsuccessfully trying to put our minds back in order) $8,200,000

5 - Into The Blue (A film that almost manages to show lots of
Jessica Alba’s lovely body without showing any of her horrible acting
ability) $7,000,000

6 - Just Like Heaven (Maybe it’s a new trend to name films after
songs by The Cure. In which case, bring on The Exploding Boy) $6,100,000

7 - The Exorcism Of Emily Rose ("It’s scary but not really that scary" - an American filmgoer, yesterday) $4,400,000

8 - Roll Bounce (A shoo-in for Best Retro Coming-Of-Age Rollerskate Comedy Oscar next year) $4,025,000

9 - The Greatest Game Ever Played (A film about golf. Hold on to your hats, excitement fans!) $3,749,000

10 - The 40-Year-Old Virgin (We’ll come clean - we’ve run out of virgin jokes) $3,110,000

Read more:

Foster’s ‘Flightplan’ still tops at box office - ABC News

[story by Stuart Heritage]