Saw III Terrorizes the Box Office

Posted on October 30, 2006

Saw III scared off the competition this past weekend, making a whopping estimated take of $34,300,000. The Departed came in second with an estimated $9,840,000 and The Prestige made an estimated $9,626,000 in its second week.

The new Brad Pitt/Cate Blanchett film, Babel opened in only seven theaters nationwide and made $366,000: that works out to an amazing $52,285 per theater take. Saw III's blockbuster performance was not a surprise really -- it was the weekend before Halloween, after all. But the Babel numbers show that adults are looking for movies to watch -- and they don't want to see Saw I, II, or III.

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