Lackluster week for new flicks

It was a lackluster week for new flicks this weekend as The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 drew only $25 million, a weak third-place finish, while Imagine that drew a mere $5.7 million over its debut weekend, good enough only for sixth place.

The box office champ was The Hangover, which drew a strong second week posting of $33.4 million to bring its 10-day total to over $105 million domestically. The Pixar film Up! continued to perform well, drawing $30.5 million in its third week, for a total of $187 million domestically to day, against a $175 million production budget.

One movie in need of disability insurance is Will Ferrell’s Land of the Lost, which fell to fifth place in its second week, drawing a meager $9.1 million in its second week, bringing its 10-day total to only $34.9 after the dinosaur flick cost $100 million to make. Of course the primary mistake for Ferrell was to take a Saturday morning live-action kids show, and turn it into a sex-driven, foul-mouthed adult comedy.

Of course, turning Holly from his daughter into a scientist girlfriend was not all that wise for those of us old enough to remember the Sid and Marty Kroft show, either.