SEBRING, August 24, 2009 – Hey! give Quentin Tarantino his props.
Inglourious Basterds killed Nazis and crowned itself king of the box office for the weekend of August 21-23, 2009.
The darkly comical World War II flick Basterds used grit and gore, (Brad) Pitt and more to earn $38.1 million. It’s Tarantino’s biggest box office coup. We must wait to see whether it will hold, but it’s notable that Basterds drew a considerable number of older male viewers in addition to its younger ones.
Inglourious Basterds plays at the Regal Eagle Ridge and the Carmike.
Rounding out the Top Three were District 9 and G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra.
District 9 was last week’s champ, and the sci-fi social commentary fell a respectable 51% to earn more than $18 million in its second week of release. To date, District 9 has earned more than 72 million – far in excess of its $30 million production budget.
G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra reined in its slide in week Two, falling only 45% and earning $12.2 million. That puts it over $120 million since its release Aug. 7. G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra still has a lot of ground to make up to its $175 million budget.
District 9 and G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra play in Sebring at the Fairmount Cinema 6.
No other films earned double digit millions, but the box office as a whole was up 20% from last year.
Sarah (Cameron Diaz) will do anything to save the life of her daughter, Anna (Sofia Vassilieva), including conceiving a new child that can give Anna the transplants or transfusions she needs to survive. But can Sarah keep her family members’ hearts and minds in harmony with hers? That’s the question in My Sister’s Keeper, which debuts today at the Fairmount Cinema 6.
