January 8th, 2002

Still The "Lord"

Though it's slipped a tiny bit as far as gross, The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring raked in 23 million. Right behind it was A Beautiful Mind doing quite well in its first weekend in wide release with a cool 16.5 million, making it pass the almighty 200 million mark. Behind was Ocean's Eleven grossing half it's title... 11 million. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I MADE A FUNNY! In fourth was Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and in fifth, also in its first weekend of wide release, was my favorite movie of 2001 (maybe I'm somewhat biased since "Rushmore" is my favorite film of all time), The Royal Tenenbaums with an impressive 8.5 million... incredibly strong for 751 theaters.

In sixth was Vanilla Sky with 7.1 million, followed by Ali with 7 million and then Kate & Leopold with 6.1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone brought in 5.9 million making it cross the awesome 300 million mark, while Monsters Inc. was last with 3.9. Newcomer Imposter opened out of the top ten with only 3 million, after being moved to last Friday from Christmas Day. That was probably a mistake...

-Zach B.