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Box Office: Game Plan Scores a Touchdown

Dwayne Johnson and Madison Pettis in The Game Plan courtesy Buena Vista Pictures Distribution

The Game Plan, a Disney comedy starring Kyra Sedgwick (that's my spin and I'm sticking to it) topped the weekend box office with a $22.7 million opening. The weekend's other major new release, Jamie, Jen and Jason's The Kingdom, placed second with $17.7 mil.

Rounding out the top five were Resident Evil: Extinction ($8 million), Good Luck Chuck ($6.3 mil) and 3:10 to Yuma (clocking in with another $4.2 mil).

In very limited release, both The Darjeeling Limited (aka the Owen Wilson-in-a-head-bandage film) and Ang Lee's Lust, Caution opened strongly.

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Matt Webb Mitovich

Oct 1, 2007 8:05 AM

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Matt, I'd probably add "and Kristen Chonenweath" (forgive me if I misspelled her last name) to your comment about The Game Plan. So The Rock wants to be the next Swartzennager (once again, forgive me) by appearing in both adult-action and bland family comedies. Nothing wrong with that though a Disney-formula flick is not normally something I'd want to go near...
Posted by SNLfan Oct 1, 2007 10:11 AM Report Abuse

Hmm, might want to reframe that description of The Game Plan. Saw it yesterday and not Kyra's finest moment. I don't think she's suitable for formulaic comedy.(Though she rocks in The Closer) That being said, the movie took that formula and created an enjoyable film, with likable characters. Not Shakespeare by any means....but not The Pacifier (shudders just thinking of that movie) either!
Posted by sapphiremoon Oct 1, 2007 11:04 AM Report Abuse

Is Dwayne Johnson the Rock's real name? He'll always be The Rock to me. Good timing on the release of this film.
Posted by CinderAngelkc Oct 1, 2007 4:05 PM Report Abuse

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