Long weekends are good for doing so many things; like visiting family, deepening bonds with friends or starting drunken fights in pub carparks, but they're not that good for going to see sports films at the cinema.
By using basic maths, you'd expect a four-day US weekend box office total to be higher than the normal three-day US weekend box office, because four is one more than three. However, over the Labor Day weekend, the top US weekend box office movie was Invincible, a crappy-looking film about American Football which hardly anyone went to see anyway.
Different people spend Labor Day doing different things – like relaxing, going on family trips or, in our case, screaming our throats raw because our pissy little server keeps crashing all the arseing time – but not too many people decided to go to the movies. Invincible – this week's US weekend box office number one movie – was seen by roughly eight people on the entire planet. And yet it still did better than Crank. Here's the US weekend box office top five…
1 – Invincible (Basically it's Rocky, but it's about American Football so it's Rocky with interminable breaks between action and a bunch of men wearing lots of padding so they don't hurty-wurty their body-woddies) $15,206,000
2 – Crank (We get the impression that this film was mostly financed after investors read the words "Jason Statham gets injected with a deadly Chinese poison." Who wouldn't pay to see that? Seriously, they could have left all the action stuff out) $13,000,000
3 – The Wicker Man (Thank God someone finally had the idea of remaking a perfect film in a crappy way and getting the bloke from sodding Con Air to play the lead. Finally!) $11,720,000
4 – Little Miss Sunshine (It's good to see that Steve Carell is already – after one crazy knockabout comedy film – doing the whole "There's more to me than the crazy clown" thing. Expect Steve Carell's Bicentennial Man any day now) $9,725,000
5 – The Illusionist (A movie adaptation of Paul Daniels' blog. Most people are watching The Illusionist purely for the big budget action sequence where Paul Daniels drives to Doncaster and is surprised by the clear roads, before falling asleep in front of ITV3) $8,021,000
Read more:
Weekend Box Office – Box Office Mojo
[story by Stuart Heritage]