Show A i A ' ’i' v ' v Utah Tuesday April 6 2004 — C3 'The Herald Journal Logan t r ’ SHERMANS LAGOON 1 ' ’ a - wall!ss NmiaNamm peuawt6nur MTfumeHUami Ji 't ftaOD mn Cm mmmnwRfta V ' ' j LOS ANGELES (AP)—A wisecracking demon from hell took down The Rock for the title ' weekend’s Ron Perlman m the starring “Hellboy” comic-boo- k superhero with red skin hocus and a tail debuted as the top flkk with $235 mil' lion according to studio estimates Sunday The Rock's “Walking Tkll” a remake of the tale opened in second 1973 vigilante-justicmillion with $153 place o The previous weekend's top movie 2: Monsters Unleashed” fell to No 3 total to with $151rnillionlifting its y $50 million The weekend’s other new wide releases followed: Disney's animated cow tale "Home on the Range” at No 4 With $14 million and Julia Stiles' love story “The Prince and Me” at No 5 with $10 million Having five movies pull in $10 million or more is a rarity for early April typically a slower time at theaters The range of movies left something for all audiences from family adventures to teen romance to violent lastyear’s'-'"- EU6rzS COWttTOf OWNED NM XWff NEKftlNMK MdlfT IT NT NU! 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WITH THE 10-da- ! t 1 BEETLE BAILEY ! waste-manageme- nt ation The movie presents a working-clas- ps “This weekend was like the classic movie- - goers' weekend You had all these different genres represented" said Paul Dergarabedian tracker Exhibitor Rela- president of tions "If you wanted lots of choices they certainly were there for you” The overall box office rose for the weekend The top 12 movies took in $1145 million up 40 percent from the same weekend last year That string of up weekends began with the n blockbuster debut of Mel Gibson’s “The of the Christ which continued to hold strongly "The Passion” came in sixth with $99 million raising its total to $3301 million Distributor Newmarket Films expanded "The Passion” to 3408 theaters up about 200 in anticipation of a solid run through Easter next Sunday Hollywood’s domestic revenues for 2004 are just over $2 billion about 6 potent ahead of box-offi- ce : out to be a fun movie”' Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at North American theaters according to Exhibitor Relations Co Inc 1 “HeUboy” $235 million 2 “Walking Tall" $153 million sixth-straig- ht 3 Pas-sio- HAGAR THE HORRIBLE : V to cam TOi won F&m olaf 1 em&YMtf herb s fighting for good despite his demonic pedigree and wistful longing for the affection of a beautiful colleague (Selma Blair) “He’s a plumber He rides around in a garbage truck How’s he supposed to get the girl?” said Tom Sherak a partner in Revolution Studios which produced the movie for distributor Sony “You think of the title ‘HeUboy’ you think of the end of the world but it turns G-rat- ed shoot-'em-u- 'V ' "r “X-Me- n” k 1 ' better-know- “Scoo-by-Do- COMPARE “ ' rid e NMM01HEE2M MlN-CM- i That’s a solid springboard for the busy summer season whose May releases include the animated sequel “Shrek 2” Brad Pitt's epic “Troy" the vampire yarn "Van Helsing” and the tale “The Day After Tomorrow” Following in June are “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of A Man 2” ' A cult attraction compared to n comic books such as “Spider-Man- " and “Hellboiy” managed to draw a broad audience with its mix of dark humor and nonstop action Perlman plays a demon raised by a loving adopted father (John Hurt) who grooms die hero to work for a government paranormal bureau disguised as a oper- box-offi- ce I ' - : 2: Monsters “Scooby-Do- o ' Unleashed" $151 million 4 “Home on the Range" $14 million 5 “The Prince and Me” $10 million 6 “The Passion of the Christ” $99 million 7 “The Ladykillers” $7 million 8 “Jersey Girl” $5J million 9 “Dawn of the Dead” $44 million 10 “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” $36 million New on videoDVD By David Germain AP Movie Writer Selected PEANUTS home-vide- ilOTHER GOOSE two-dis- releases: o - “The Pink Panther Film Collection’’ All five Blake Edwards movies featuring Peter Sellers as bumbling Inspector Clouseau set The set ranges are packaged in a from the superior 1964 capers “The Pink Pan-ther” said “A Shot in the Dark” to the hilari- ous 1976 revival “The Pink Panther Strikes Again” to the feeble final two “Revenge of the Pink Panther” and “Trail of the Pink Pan- ther” (the latter stitched together using leftover footage after Selim died) Edwards delivers commentary for the original movie and the set has a documentary examining the development of die franchise plus six of the “Pink Panther” cartoon shorts it spawned DVD set $6996 six-DV- AND GRIMM remain mum with no commentary accompany- c set’s added materiing the movie The als focus heavily on visual effects and stunts including a look at the final battle between brooding hero Neo (Keanu Reeves) and his nemesis Smith (Hugo Weaving) plus back? 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