Weekend Box Office Report - Pirates take the Booty

It seems that America loves Johnny Depp in mascara . . . I mean, playing a pirate. Disney's latest offering in the Pirates of the Caribbean theatrial adaptation of the ride busted a ton of records. It even beat out the fake Aquaman opening weekend numbers. If you don't watch "Entourage", then you're not in the "know". "Superman Returns" returns this weekend at #2 and with a drop-off of about 60%, proving that Warner Brothers is in a heap of trouble if they can't recoup their quarter-billion dollar investment in this movie. "The Devil Wears Prada" gets a nice chunk of change added to it's total take, enabling the Devil to not only buy Prada, but Versaci, Gucci, and maybe get himself some of those dashing Manolo Blahniks.

The next three movies on the list (Click, Cars, and Nacho Libre) kind of baffle me in their success. Why does Adam Sandler keep making so much money with the movies he is in. His best role so far was in "Punch Drunk Love", which was his most un-Adam Sandler'ish role to date. He should make some more of those. Or maybe not, we might end up with another "Spanglish". "Cars" was just boring as all fuck. "Nacho Libre", while amusing, was not expected to make much money. If you look at Jack Black's previous track record as a leading man . . . it ain't that great.

The bottom portion of the countdown is populated by pure and utter shit, and we will not touch it with a ten foot pole. Suffice to say that I hope Vince Vaughn knows something we here at BAFW don't know about Jennifer Aniston. Like, maybe, despite her man-face, she willingly takes it in the pooper. Maybe that's why he's marrying her. It's hard to find a woman (outside of a porno) that like that kind of action. What does that have to do with the 100+ million "The Break Up" made . . . absolutely nothing. Total takes this week in new and improved bold RED. You're not tripping out. I did that. But, do put down the crack pipe. Heed Whitney Houston's words . . . "Crack is whack".

1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - $132,028,000
2. Superman Returns - $21,850,000 $141,677,000
3. The Devil Wears Prada - $15,600,000 $63,696,000
4. Click - $12,000,000 $105,921,000
5. Cars - $10,330,000 $205,504,000
6. Nacho Libre - $3,339,000 $73,813,000
7. The Lake House - $2,845,000 $45,621,000
8. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift - $2,484,000 $57,369,000
9. Waist Deep - $1,861,000 $19,167,000
10.The Break-Up - $1,646,000 $114,304,000