February 19th, 2002

The First "Q"

With February now half-over, this month sure has some breakout hits. In its first weekend out, John Q. captured the top box office spot with an impressive 23.6 million at the box office (Denzel sure can open a movie). In second and making back its original budget more or less is Britney Spears' feature film debut, the love it or hate it Crossroads with 17 million. In third was the once direct to video and now theatrical release of Return To Never Land, Disney's "Peter Pan" sequel making a nice 15 million. In fourth was Big Fat Liar with 11.4 million and Collateral Damage with 9.6 million.

Oscar® contender A Beautiful Mind still continues to play strongly with 9.4 million, while Hart's War opened to a rather lukewarm 8.9 million (I'm sure this will deterioate during the upcoming weeks - too bad MGM couldn't convince New Line to delay "John Q."). Black Hawk Down made another 7.2 million, Super Troopers brought in 7.1 million during its first weekend while Snow Dogs rounded the top ten off with 6.7 million.

-Zach B.