Rent Film Drops Out of Weekend Box Office Top Ten

The Rent film has fallen off the box office charts for the weekend of December 16-18.  The Producers film, however, opened to good business in its limited release.

Now in its fourth weekend, Rent, which opened nationwide on November 23rd, earned $700,000.  The movie musical, directed by Chris Columbus, is now in the # 15 spot at the box office.  Starring Adam Pascal, Idina Menzel, Rosario Dawson, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Tracie Thoms, Anthony Rapp, Jesse L. Martin and Taye Diggs, the film, which is a Columbia Pictures/Revolution Studios production and was released by Sony Pictures, has grossed $28 million.

Meanwhile, the film version of The Producers, directed by Susan Stroman and starring Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Will Ferrell, Uma Thurman, Roger Bart and Gary Beach, earned $156,000 this weekend.  The film, produced by Mel Brooks and Jonathan Sanger and distributed by Universal Pictures and Columbia Pictures, was released on only six screens.  The Producers will open on $1,200 screens on Christmas Day, and on even more on January 13th.

Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong earned the top spot at the box office; it pulled in $50.1 million.  It was followed by The Chronicles of Narnia, The Family Stone, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Syriana in the other top five spots.