Weekend Estimates: Get Smart Bumbles to Success
June 22, 2008
Get Smart overcame mediocre reviews to record a stronger-than-expected opening over the weekend, according to studio estimates released on Sunday.
The spy comedy scored a very respectable $39.2 million weekend, with a per theater average just topping $10,000.
That's a significant advance over Steve Carell's last Summer blockbusting effort, Evan Almighty, which opened with $31.2 million this weekend last year.
This weekend's other comedy opening, however, was more, err, flaccid.
Love Guru only managed an estimated $14 million over the weekend, for a very disappointing 4th place.
One has to look back over a decade to find the last Mike Myers movie to earn less than $15 million on its opening weekend: Austin Powers debuted with $9.5 million in May, 1997.
That movie started his superstardom.
Love Guru looks like the end of a remarkable run.
Filed under: Weekend Estimates, Get Smart, The Love Guru