Selma Blair in Columbia Pictures' The Fog - 2005 | BEIJING, Oct. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Sony Corp.'s horror film "The Fog", a remake of a 1980 horror classic, topped the North American box office at the weekend, grossing $12.2 million, barely overcasting last week's winner.
Clay-animation adventure Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, dropped to second place with $11.7 million, and the new Cameron Crowe road-trip movie, Elizabethtown, stalled in third place with just $11 million.
In "The Fog," a seaside town is shrouded in a thick fog a century after a ship carrying lepers sank just off the coast under mysterious circumstances. Ghosts of the dead return for revenge. The movie stars Tom Welling, Maggie Grace and Selma Blair.
Maggie Grace in "The Fog" |
While $12.2 million is hardly a blockbuster opening for a major studio release, Columbia executives said they were cheered by the film's first-week performance in light of its modest budget.
"It cost in the neighborhood of around $18 million to make, so it will be very successful for us," said Rory Bruer, president of distribution for Columbia, a unit of Sony Corp. Enditem
(Agencies)
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