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MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2002
CONGRATULATIONS!
'Jackass' pulls stunt at theaters
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Jackass has pulled its craziest stunt yet, debuting in first place at the box office.
Jackass: The Movie, the big-screen version of the MTV show whose stars specialized in bizarre and risky behavior, debuted with $22.7 million.
Last weekend's winner, The Ring, slipped to No.2 but raised its gross by adding about 650 more theaters. The movie took in $18.8 million, up $3.8 million from opening weekend, pushing its 10-day total to $39.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Another fright flick, Ghost Ship, opened in third place with $11.7 million. The movie stars Julianna Margulies and Gabriel Byrne as leaders of a salvage crew that finds a haunted ocean liner.
Debuting in much narrower release was Mark Wahlberg and Tandie Newton's The Truth About Charlie, a remake of the Cary Grant-Audrey Hepburn crime caper Charade.
The Truth About Charlie played in 752 theaters, averaging $3,105 a cinema. Jackass averaged $9,047 in 2,509 theaters. The Ring did $7,137 in 2,634 theaters, and Ghost Ship did $4,203 in 2,787 theaters.
Directed by Jonathan Demme,
The Truth About Charlie opened out of the top 10 with $2.3 million.
The overall box office rose for the seventh straight weekend. The top 12 movies grossed $88 million, up 21 percent from same weekend last year.
Produced for just $5 million, Jackass features Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O and others from the new-defunct MTV show doing
such hazardous or crude acts as roller-skating with bottle rockets attached.
"People love to watch a train wreck. They can't take their eyes off any horrible thing where you can sit on the sidelines and watch without actually putting yourself in jeopardy," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations.
Two-thirds of the movie's audience was male, and young men from 17 to 24 accounted for nearly half the crowds, according to distributor Paramount.
The R-rated movie carried warnings urging viewers not to try the stunts themselves, and Paramount offered to provide guards at theaters that wanted extra security to keep those younger than 17 from sneaking in, said Wayne Lewellen, the studio's head of distribution.
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22 Joyride
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31 Consume completely
33 Offers to buyers
34 Post
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40 Rod and Payne
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56 Requirement
57 Lee or Kenton
59 Olden times
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Underworld
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