Box-Office Shocker: Moviegoers Toast Mel Gibson
Those who said
Mel Gibson would never eat lunch in Hollywood again were wrong: His
Apocalypto debuted at the top of the box office this weekend with a haul of $14.2 million. That said, the self-destructive director may be having that lunch at Burger King rather than Chez Fancypants, seeing as his last hard-sell flick,
The Passion of the Christ, took in $83.8 million in
its opening weekend.
Rounding out the top five were the Cameron Diaz/Jude Law (or Kate Winslet/Jack Black, if you prefer) date movie
The Holiday (opening with $13.5 million), then
Happy Feet ($12.7 mil),
Casino Royale ($8.8 mil) and Leo DiCaprio's
Blood Diamond (debuting with $8.5 mil).
Monday's Today's News was written by Ben Katner.
