Loading ...Top 10 Genre Movies: Babylon A.D. towers over genre competition
Despite poor reviews, dystopian newcomer Babylon A.D. topped the genre Labor Day holiday weekend box office with just under $10 million in ticket sales. It was second overall, behind only the comedy blockbuster Tropic Thunder.
Lat week's No. 1 - Death Race - fell to the No. 3 spot among genre films (No. 6 overall) with about $6.3 million in ticket sales.
The No. 2 genre spot was held by Batman flick, The Dark Knight, which passed the half-billion mark in North American sales this past weekend. Racking up $8.6 million in ticket sales for a grand total of $502.3 million in domestic sales, added to the $417 million foreign takem the film reached a total gross of $921.7 million worldwide.
Needless to say, there will be more Batman films in future years.
No genre films are set to debut over the next two weeks.
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Following are the Top 10 speculative fiction movies in release in North America for the 2008 Labor Day weekend.
RANK #. (Overall Rank) Title - Weekend Gross | Total Gross [Budget]
- (2) Babylon A.D. - $9.6 million | $9.6 million [$70 million]
- (3) The Dark Knight - $8.6 million | $502.3 million [$185 million]
- (6) Death Race - $6.3 million | $23.1 million [$45 million]
- (11) Mirrors - $2.74 million | $24.8 million [unreported budget]
- (12) Star Wars: The Clone Wars - $2.70 million | $29.6 million [unreported budget]
- (13) The Mummy: Dragon Emperor - $2.6 million | $97.9 million [$145 million]
- (15) Journey to the Center of the Earth - $1.8 million | $94.6 million [$60 million]
- (18) Fly Me to the Moon - $1.5 million | $6.3 million [$25 million]
- (21) Wall-E - $1.1 million } $217.9 million [$180 million]
- (29) Hellboy 2 - $0.2 million | $75.4 million [$85 million]
Source: Box Office Mojo - list only includes science fiction, spy fi, fantasy and dark fantasy/horror titles.
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