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June-23rd-2008, 06:43 AM
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LOS ANGELES — In a comedy slugfest at the weekend movie box office, Steve Carell and “Get Smart” knocked out Mike Myers and “The Love Guru,” though intense competition among a continuing series of comic films could leave everyone looking a little bruised before the summer is over.
“Get Smart,” from Warner Brothers, a remake of the television series, had an estimated $39.2 million in domestic ticket sales.
That was the best opening for a film with Mr. Carell in the lead role. It did somewhat better than his “Evan Almighty,” which took in $31.2 million for Universal Pictures on the same weekend last year and went on to draw $100 million at the domestic box office, a number that was considered low for a heavily promoted movie that opened in the prime ticket-selling season.
“Get Smart” stopped far short of the $73 million in first-weekend ticket sales for another spy spoof, “Austin Powers in Goldmember,” which starred Mr. Myers in 2002. Yet both outperformed Mr. Myers’s latest, which had just $14 million in domestic ticket sales over the weekend.
“The Love Guru” placed fourth at the weekend box office in a serious embarrassment for Mr. Myers, who had spent years perfecting his new screen character, a love counselor named Pitka, only to be rejected by the critics and audience alike.
For weeks industry executives had privately warned that “Get Smart” and “The Love Guru,” comedies with a similar target audience, were certain to hurt each other by insisting on the same release date. No weekend for the rest of the summer promised quite so brutal a showdown.
But a crowded field of comedy releases could well reduce the prospects for each. “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan,” an Adam Sandler comedy from Sony Pictures, for instance, took in $7 million over the weekend, bringing its total so far to $84 million. But the film will be hard-pressed to match the $137 million earned two years ago by Mr. Sandler’s “Click,” given competition from comedies already in the market and others, like Sony’s Will Smith film “Hancock,” that are yet to come.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/movies/23box.html?em&ex=1214366400&en=6f31e559b759ce00&ei=5087%0A
LOS ANGELES — In a comedy slugfest at the weekend movie box office, Steve Carell and “Get Smart” knocked out Mike Myers and “The Love Guru,” though intense competition among a continuing series of comic films could leave everyone looking a little bruised before the summer is over.
“Get Smart,” from Warner Brothers, a remake of the television series, had an estimated $39.2 million in domestic ticket sales.
That was the best opening for a film with Mr. Carell in the lead role. It did somewhat better than his “Evan Almighty,” which took in $31.2 million for Universal Pictures on the same weekend last year and went on to draw $100 million at the domestic box office, a number that was considered low for a heavily promoted movie that opened in the prime ticket-selling season.
“Get Smart” stopped far short of the $73 million in first-weekend ticket sales for another spy spoof, “Austin Powers in Goldmember,” which starred Mr. Myers in 2002. Yet both outperformed Mr. Myers’s latest, which had just $14 million in domestic ticket sales over the weekend.
“The Love Guru” placed fourth at the weekend box office in a serious embarrassment for Mr. Myers, who had spent years perfecting his new screen character, a love counselor named Pitka, only to be rejected by the critics and audience alike.
For weeks industry executives had privately warned that “Get Smart” and “The Love Guru,” comedies with a similar target audience, were certain to hurt each other by insisting on the same release date. No weekend for the rest of the summer promised quite so brutal a showdown.
But a crowded field of comedy releases could well reduce the prospects for each. “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan,” an Adam Sandler comedy from Sony Pictures, for instance, took in $7 million over the weekend, bringing its total so far to $84 million. But the film will be hard-pressed to match the $137 million earned two years ago by Mr. Sandler’s “Click,” given competition from comedies already in the market and others, like Sony’s Will Smith film “Hancock,” that are yet to come.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/movies/23box.html?em&ex=1214366400&en=6f31e559b759ce00&ei=5087%0A