The Fog Tops The US Weekend Box Office Chart

Old films are good, but don’t you sometimes wish that you could watch new versions of them? New versions set in the modern day, will all of the fun kicked out of them and starring less famous people. Wouldn’t that be just dandy?

That’s what all of America thinks, anyway. They’ve taken The Fog - a rubbishy-looking remake of a 25-year-old horror film - to the top of the US weekend box office chart.

The Fog has managed to ride two of the biggest current Hollywood
trends - schlocky horror films and pointless ropey remakes. If it had
managed to cram a Will Ferrell cameo into the third act, it would have
been a hat-trick. Here’s the top ten…

1 - The Fog (A film about fog. The scariest fog in the whole wide world. Oooh, fog) $12,200,000

2 - Wallace And Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (Coming soon -
Wallace And Gromit: The Curse Of The Melted Morph) $11,700,000

3 - Elizabethtown (After being an unconvincing elf, an unconvincing
sailor and an unconvincing boxing milkman, Orlando turns his hand to
playing a sap. Quite convincingly) $11,000,000

4 - Flightplan (Hopefully Flightplan 2 will upset flight attendants
even more, maybe by showing them pissing in coffee or interfering with
livestock) $6,475,000

5 - In Her Shoes ("Hey, boys! This film’s for you too!" say the makers of a movie with the word "Shoes" in the title) $6,100,000

6 - Domino (Featuring the least sexy lapdance scene in any film ever. Ever) $4,675,000

7 - Two For The Money (If Al Pacino was wired up to a generator, his
overacting in this film could power a small town for seven weeks)
$4,614,000

8 - A History Of Violence (Best harrowingly silent ending to a movie ever) $3,600,000

9 - Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (This film gets beaten in the charts
by Wallace And Gromit - then the Aardman warehouse burns down.
Coincidence?) $3,460,000

10 - Gospel (Something tells us that a film called Methodist would do quite as well) $3,200,000

Read more:

Sony’s Horror Film ‘The Fog’ Debuts As Top Movie With $12.2 Mil - Bloomsberg

[story by Stuart Heritage]