Crowe Has a Hit With 3:10 to Yuma

Posted on September 10, 2007

Russell Crowe and Christian Bale won the box office this past weekend with their excellently-reviewed Western remake 3:10 to Yuma. The film made $14,100,000 in 2,652 theaters, for a very nice $5,316 per theater average. Crowe needs a hit, after the disappointing numbers for Cinderella Man. This is it.

Despite rumors of on-set strife between Crowe and Lionsgate over the handling of the film's marketing and release, Crowe turns in an Oscar-caliber performance. In second place was Halloween, which made another $10,034,000, for a total box office to date of $44,230,000. In third place was Balls of Fury, which made another estimated $5,693,000, which puts its gross to date at $24,281,000. Add in DVD sales, and the resulting number says that unfortunately we'll probably see another movie of this ilk next year.

Debuting at a disappointing sixth place was the Clive Owen action thriller, Shoot Em Up, which made $5,450,000. As the title implies, it's all-violence, all the time. But it's Clive Owen, people. That makes it worth seeing, even for the violence-averse -- which certainly isn't us. We love a good action flick around here.

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