The Competition Was Unexpectedly Sawed In Half

Pencil a big goose egg next to our name after our prediction of this past weekend's box office reusults — "Saw II," with its $30.5 million take, sliced and bled its way over "The Legend of Zorro," which brought in $16.5 million. (Full report, as always, is here.) We aren't members of the "Saw" franchise community — nor is the msm, it would appear — but many bloggers are now raving about it. Movie afficianados might be reminded of the movie " Cube" and its sequels " Cube 2: Hypercube," and " Cube Zero," about strangers who find themselves in a strange, murderous environment and must use their wits to survive. The main difference may be that there's a main serial killer in the "Saw" pictures, and the bad guy is a big cube in the "Cube" movies, but it just goes to show you that recycling premises can pay out big in Tinseltown. Though that fact is decidedly less surprising than "Saw II's" performance this weekend.

Posted by Philip Ewing at October 31, 2005 10:03 AM

Category: Moving Pictures