{"id":918,"date":"2007-08-06T13:15:41","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T12:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/08\/06\/bourne-ultimatum-tops-the-us-box-office\/"},"modified":"2007-08-06T13:41:07","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T12:41:07","slug":"bourne-ultimatum-tops-the-us-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/08\/06\/bourne-ultimatum-tops-the-us-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Bourne Ultimatum tops the US box office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bourne<\/a>The Bourne Ultimatum<\/strong><\/a> has topped the US box office, grossing a whopping $70 million, making it the biggest opening of a film in August.<\/p>\n

Gary Gentile of The AP reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Superspy Jason Bourne delivered more than an ultimatum this weekend as the third in a series of spy thrillers topped box office charts and delivered the biggest August opening of a film ever.<\/p>\n

“The Bourne Ultimatum” took in $70.2 million this weekend, far surpassing the openings of both of the earlier Bourne films based on novels by Robert Ludlum.<\/p>\n

The opening also pushed last week’s top film, “The Simpsons Movie,” to second place, with $25.6 million. The big-screen version of the animated TV show has topped $315 million worldwide for distributor Twentieth Century Fox.<\/p>\n

“We’re really riding high today,” said Nikki Rocco, head of distribution for Universal Pictures, which put out “The Bourne Ultimatum.” “The reviews and audiences rated this one the best one yet.”<\/p>\n

The second in the series, “The Bourne Supremacy,” earned $52.5 million in its opening weekend in 2004, while the first film, “The Bourne Identity,” had an opening weekend take of $27.1 million when it debuted in 2002.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nikki Finke has some more details at Deadline Hollywood Daily<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The vast majority of the audience (94+%) had seen prior Bourne movies and 60% said that was the main reason for seeing the threequel.<\/p>\n

It did more than twice the June 2002 original The Bourne Identity (which opened to $27 mil) and way more than the July 2004 sequel The Bourne Supremacy (which debuted to $53 mil).<\/p>\n

Ratings of the movie broke down to 80% “Excellent\/Very Good”, 40% “Excellent”, and 55% “Definitely Recommend”.<\/p>\n

Another strong sign was this PG-13 pic’s per screen average Saturday, a healthy $6,950.<\/p>\n

The only bad news is that I hear script tweaks and reshoots made the price of this Bourne creep upwards to $110 mil. But its domestic and international ticket receipts should hand Universal a hefty profit, nonetheless.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Bourne Ultimatum<\/strong> opens in the UK on Friday 17th August<\/em>
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\n<\/em>> Official site for The Bourne Ultimatum<\/a>
\n> Images of the film shooting at Waterloo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bourne Ultimatum has topped the US box office, grossing a whopping $70 million, making it the biggest opening of a film in August. Gary Gentile of The AP reports: Superspy Jason Bourne delivered more than an ultimatum this weekend as the third in a series of spy thrillers topped box office charts and delivered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}