'Snakes' has little bite at box office
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The Internet buzz over "Snakes on a Plane" turned out to be nothing to hiss about. The high-flying thriller preceded by months of unprecedented Web buildup technically debuted as the No. 1 movie, but with a modest $15.25 million opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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LOS ANGELES  - Hollywood attempted to squeeze a few more dollars out of a record summer by launching a handful of midrange movies that mostly came up short at the North American box office during the weekend.
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So much for the Internet hype.  "Snakes on a Plane," a camp thriller that generated an  unprecedented tsunami of online hysteria during the past year,  crawled into the No. 1 slot at the North American weekend box  office with estimated ticket sales of just $15.3 million, its  distributor said on Sunday.
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Shark Tale is continuing to fight off all competition at the US box office. The animated aquatic tale is the most successful film for a second week, taking a strong $31.
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Hollywood is only marginally ahead of its lackluster 2005 in terms of dollars and cents. Studios are miles ahead in terms of summer hits and misses, though.
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The new film by the Teja-Nitin duo lacks punch.
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Moviegoers are not following the script written for them by the Hollywood studios. In a sign that big-budget sequels may be losing their allure, North American ticket sales for the first three big films of the lucrative summer season have not kept pace with their respective predecessors.
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Apparently moviegoers had enough of all the mother-bleepin'   hype about the mother-bleepin' snakes on that mother-bleepin' plane.
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Late August generally is a time  when Hollywood's studios dump movies for which they have low  box office expectations, and this week continues that old  philosophy with four new films crowding theaters nationwide.
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It's been a bad time for movies in general lately, but good for thrillers like "The Forgotten," which claimed the No. 1 box office spot over the weekend, scaring up &#36;22 million.
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The gangster cartoon "Shark Tale"  roughed up its rivals at the North American box office for a  second weekend, while Billy Bob Thornton scored a touchdown at  No. 2 with his new school football drama "Friday Night Lights,"  according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.
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It&#39;s amazing how little you need to make a really good movie: just throw a couple of actors into shark-infested waters and turn on the camera.
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In a case of life imitating art, a Houston movie theater has shut down while workers hunt for an 8-foot snake spotted by a maintenance worker.    Among the movies playing at the 16-screen Tinseltown theater is the horror-thriller "Anacondas."    Terrell Falk, a spokeswoman for Cinemark USA Inc., said the worker saw a snake about a week ago that he described as thick as a man's arm slithering along a wall...
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Keshu Ramsay's under-production multi-starrer (earlier titled Sipahee) is facing problems due to a reptile.
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DreamWorks&#39; animated &quot;Shark Tale&quot; took another big bite at the boxoffice this weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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The new low-budget thriller  "Boogeyman" haunted the No. 1 slot at the weekend box office in  North America on Sunday, a day when movie theaters will be  lucky to scare up much business in the face of competition from  the Super Bowl.
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Late August generally is a time when Hollywood&#39;s studios dump movies for which they have low box office expectations, and this week continues that old philosophy with four new films crowding theaters nationwide.