Even though this weekend was supposedly the weekend of Snakes On A Plane, Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby – AKA Anchorman In A Car – stays at the top of the US weekend box office. Well, sort of.
As with World Trade Center last week, Snakes On A Plane's US weekend box office haul will be seen in some quarters as a disappointment – Snakes On A Plane can claim the US weekend box office number one spot solely because of a few advance screenings. However, Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby is the only movie in the US weekend box office top two to not feature a big snake biting a man's cock off, so Snakes On A Plane probably remains the moral victor.
Without taking Snakes On A Plane's advance screenings into consideration, Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby has now managed to notch up three weeks at the top of the US weekend box office which, for a blatant Anchorman rip-off with some cars and Borat in it, isn't bad at all. Of course, Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby still has almost $300 million to make up before it reaches the heights of the last Pirates Of The Caribbean film, but it does have the distinction of emerging the US weekend box office victor against a movie about a harrowing terrorist attack and a movie about a snotty English guy being swallowed by an anaconda. Here's the US weekend box office top five, for Friday to Sunday only…
1 – Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby (Proving that a year's worth of solid internet buzz is still no match for a three week old flick about a man who drives a brum brum car all funny) $14,100,000
2 – Snakes On A Plane (Or, more appropriately, Snakes Biting A Woman On The Tit, Snakes Chewing On A Woman's Tongue, or Snakes Hanging Off The Back Of A Fat Man's Arse) $13,850,000
3 – World Trade Center (Perhaps World Trade Center would have done better in the US weekend box office if, like Snakes On A Plane, it featured a jive-talking black man with a computer game addiction landing the plane safely in Los Angeles) $10,800,000
4 – Accepted (The film that answers the question "what kind of piece of crap movie would Chevy Chase probably want to be in if he was a teenager in 2006?") $10,112,000
5 – Step Up (A movie about annoying self-obsessed arts students finding their place in life by dancing and that. And it's still in the US weekend box office top five. Ashamed? You should be) $9,867,000
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[story by Stuart Heritage]