Monday Morning Box Office: Time To Start Thinking About 'Borat 2'
Beat back your acute case of Monday morning depression with these pharmaceutical-grade box office mood enhancers:
1. Borat—$29 million
With their movie finishing first at the box office for a second consecutive weekend, and having already earned $67 million domestically (and about $40 million internationally), the Borat team is already talking sequel. While they recognize that trying to trick people using what has become the most recognizable character in comedy is going to be harder the second time around, producer Jay Roach boasts to MTV News, "There are always insulated worlds where Borat can go either on this continent or others." But even if they send their faux documentarian into rural Pennsylvania in search of communities who've intentionally isolated themselves from mainstream America for Borat: Cultural Reportings To Make Learn Kazakhstan About The Backwards Amish Peoples, Sacha Baron Cohen would probably be met by enthusiastic high-fives and requests for autographs from participants in the first barn-raising he'd planned on sabotaging, and knowing, "here we go again" smirks as he tries to convince them that he genuinely believes that the butter churn was the appropriate place to "make toilet."
2. The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause—$16.893 million
3. Flushed Away—$16.710 million
Even though these movies have little in common besides their intent to attract families desperate to entertain their children, we once again group them together, our dismissive way of striking back at the studios for constantly rubbing our faces in our lonely, childless existence.
4. Stranger Than Fiction—$14.1 million
To the best of our recollection from last night's trip to Stranger Than Fiction, Will Ferrell at no point removes his clothes and runs in circles while wearing a helmet and tighty-whities, a creative decision that seems to have cost the movie roughly $33 million on its opening weekend.
10. A Good Year—$3.775 million
While audiences have previously responded favorably to Gladiator Crowe, Sea Captain Crowe, and even Cartoonishly Schizophrenic Crowe, they proved completely uninterested in Pussified, Wine-Aficionado Crowe.
