Will You Please Go Away Now?
The bottom fell out for Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" on Friday night.
The $182 million horror epic, struggling to hold its own among new releases, was beaten at the box office by an indie film about a pimp-turned-rapper.
"Hustle and Flow," a Sundance favorite this year, is playing in only 1,013 theaters. "War" is on 3,265 screens. But the former film took in $2,750,000 on Friday night, beating the latter by about $300,000.
"War of the Worlds," finishing in the eighth spot Friday night, has just passed the $200 million mark domestically. Internationally it's made a little more than that, giving the Tom Cruise pic a total worldwide take of $500 million. Believe it or not, that means it's just about broken even. If it weren't for the foreign audiences, though, War would have been a money loser for Paramount Pictures.
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