Shark Night 3D looks for some box office bite over Apollo 18 on Labor Day Weekend.
The Help may very well top the charts again.
Two wide releases contend to try topple DreamWorks' The Help, which could very well end up holding top spot for a third weekend in a row. Relativity Media's Shark Night 3D starring Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack, Katharine McPhee and Joel David Moore, opens in over 3,500 theaters at 2,806 locations nationwide. The thriller helmed by David R. Ellis (Snakes on a Plane, Cellular, The Final Destination), from the writing by Will Hayes and Jesse Studenberg.
Dimension Films' docu-horror Apollo 18 teasing with the found-footage style of The Blair Witch Project, finds 3,328 theaters under the helm of Spanish helmer Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego. The film's uncredited cast consists of two small names in Warren Christie and Lloyd Owen.
Focus Features' The Debt opened on Wednesday in 1,826 locations, with a strong cast including Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, Jesper Christensen, Ciarán Hinds and Tom Wilkinson on board. John Madden could turn in a solid per-theater average.
DreamWorks' crowd-please The Help holds strong reviews and has held steady during the week. The Emma Stone, Viola Davis and Bryce Dallas Howard starrer may see first place yet again after two strong weekend runs, being the kind of film that's a safer holiday weekend bet.
Samuel Goldwyn Films' comedy A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, starring Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Bibb, Lake Bell, Michelle Borth, Nick Kroll and Tyler Labine, makes a limited run, as do the following:
- Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life from Music Box Films (3 theaters).
- IFC's Love Crime foreign offering in 5 theaters.
- Seven Days in Utopia from Visio Entertainment un 550 theaters
- Lionsgate's foreign film Saving Private Perez in 125 theaters
- Bodyguard from Reliance Big Pictures in 89 locations
- Bol from Eros in liimited venues.