US Weekend Box Office Chart - Virgin Still On Top

Hear that noise? That’s the end of summer.

The end of summer means different things to different people. To some, it means buying pencil cases and new shoes to get ready for another school year; to others it means constantly laying on your back to ease the pain of your inexplicably sunburnt feet. And for Hollywood, it means throwing out the B-team.

The end of summer is usually when Hollywood studios dump all their not-quite-blockbuster leftover movies into cinemas. Movies like The Brothers Grimm and The Cave, both new releases that couldn’t topple The 40-Year-Old Virgin from the top of the US weekend box office chart.

The Brothers Grimm is the first new movie directed by Terry Gilliam
since 1998. It stars Matt Damon and Heath Ledger as the German
storytelling brothers, but it suffered from some poor reviews. It still
managed to get to number two, but that will be seen by many as an
under-performance.

And The Cave - the endlessly-trailed mid-budget horror film about
some idiots in a cave - entered the charts at number six this week.
We’re not even sure if this is a good or a bad thing. Anyway, here’s
this week’s top ten…

1 - The 40-Year-Old Virgin (A documentary about your Dad) $16,434,000

2 - The Brothers Grimm (A documentary about you and your grim brother) $15,093,000

3 - Red Eye (A documentary about the time you rubbed rock salt into your eye) $10,400,000

4 - Four Brothers (A documentary about all your siblings with different Dads) $7,825,000

5 - Wedding Crashers (A documentary about your drunk Nan) $6,250,000

6 - The Cave (A documentary about your Mum’s vagina) $6,200,000

7 - March Of The Penguins (The ruthless Lord Zarg begins the most violent space
massacre in United Galaxy history - can Dash Gunn and his team of
super-robots save the universe this time?) $4,570,000

8 - The Skeleton Key (A documentary about the time you, drunk on cheap cider, accidentally exhumed your Grandpa) $4,385,000

9 - Valiant (A documentary about everyone in the world apart from you and your stinking family) $3,352,000

10 - The Dukes Of Hazzard (A documentary about a bloody car or something) $3,045,000

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‘Virgin’ vanquishes rivals at U.S. box office - Reuters

[story by Stuart Heritage]