Weekend Box Office: A diminished Sparta still conquers
Though it dropped over 50% of its phenomenal opening weekend take, 300 still had enough juice to crush the competition again in its second week with $31.2 million in receipts. Buoyed by improbably strong word-of-mouth—a reality that has us asking, "Who are these people?"— the critically drubbed comedy Wild Hogs continues to perform strongly without much drop-off, collecting $18.8 million and sailing past the magic $100 million dollar mark (and counting). The motorcycle movie barely edged out the week's strongest newcomer, the Sandra Bullock vehicle Premonition, which took an even $18 million despite yet another round of bad reviews. Other newcomers didn't fare as well, including the ventriloquist horror film Dead Silence and Chris Rock's relationship comedy I Think I Love My Wife, which made $7.8 million and $5.7 million respectively.