Weekend Estimates: 'Tropic Thunder' Drowns Out 'House Bunny' for Weekend Win; Statham's 'Death Race' No. 3 with $12.2M; 'Dark Knight' at No. 4 and Should Reach $500M by Labor Day!

22 August 2008 11:02 PM, PDT | From fantasymoguls.com | See recent Fantasy Moguls news

Steve Mason is now on Facebook. Sunday 8:30 a.m. (Pacific): On Friday night I reported that The House Bunny (Sony) had won the Friday box-office race, but that Tropic Thunder (DreamWorks/Paramount) would win the weekend, and that is exactly the way it played out. The Anna Faris PG-13-rated comedy was down almost 12 percent from its $5.92 million Friday for $5.25 million on its second day of release, and it will likely hit $15.1 million for the 3-day. That is well above industry expectations for the modestly budgeted, Under 25 Females-geared movie.

Steve Mason

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