Talledega Nights Holds Off Snakes on a Plane For Box Office Victory

Posted on August 21, 2006

Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby fought off stiff competition from Snakes on a Plane to retain the top box office spot this past weekend, making an estimated $14,100,000. Snakes on a Plane came in second with $13,850,000, averaging a nice $3,895 per theater. Oliver Stone's World Trade Center was in third place; to date the film has made $45,005,000. Snakes on a Plane actually opened on Thursday night, so if those totals were counted toward the weekend take, Snakes won the box office with a total take of $15.3 million.

Universal's college comedy, Accepted came in fourth with $10,112,000, and the new Hilary Duff film, Material Girls, came in ninth with $4,620,000. Little Miss Sunshine went into wider release and made an estimated $5.7 million while playing at only 691 theaters.

There were six films all aimed at the same demographic, which led to the strange, spread-out box office results over the weekend. It will be interesting to see how these films hold up next weekend.

Update

The final weekend box office numbers came in and it turns out that Snakes on a Plane made just enough to beat out Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby for the #1 spot. Snakes made $13,806,311 to Talledega Nights box office take of $13,755,387. Step Up also earned $10,157,605 which was enough to bump Accepted out of the 4th slot.

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