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While castaway Tom Hanks may have already dug up a Spanish galleon's worth of booty on his desert island, this week's big winner resides in the No. 3 slot -- Traffic. After a limited opening before New Year's, the star-studded Steven Soderbergh drug-war epic added 1,506 sites and racked up $15.5 million, bringing its two-week street value to $16.0 million. Spurred by a string of early award-circuit honors, Traffic seems on track to become this year's little indie that could. Others looking to take a page from Soderbergh's wide-rollout playbook in the coming weeks include Finding Forrester, Thirteen Days, and O Brother, Where Art Thou?
TOP 20 WEEKEND NO. OF WEEKEND WEEKS GROSS GROSS* SITES[1] PER-SITE IN TO DATE AVERAGE RELEASE 1 CAST AWAY 20th Century Fox $22.2 2,948 $7,538 3 $141.7 2 WHAT WOMEN WANT Paramount $15.6 3,052 $5,097 4 $137.9 3 TRAFFIC USA Films $15.5 1,510 $10,277 2 $16.0 4 MISS CONGENIALITY Warner Bros. $13.0 2,668 $4,881 3 $65.4 5 THE FAMILY MAN Universal $9.1 2,410 $3,785 3 $56.3 6 THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE Walt Disney $7.5 2,774 $2,690 4 $62.4 7 VERTICAL LIMIT Columbia $5.0 2,602 $1,926 5 $59.3 8 WES CRAVEN PRESENTS: DRACULA 2000 Dimension $4.3 $4.3 2,204 $1,956 3 $28.1 9 DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? 20Th Century Fox $3.8 2,004 $1,912 4 $41.4 10 CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON Sony Pictures Classics $3.4 172 $19,816 5 $18.5 11 DR SEUSS' HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS Universal $2.5 $2.5 2,594 $965 8 $257.8 12 ALL THE PRETTY HORSES Miramax $2.5 1,593 $1,555 2 $12.8 13 FINDING FORRESTER Columbia $2.2 200 $11,064 3 $8.6 14 102 DALMATIONS Walt Disney $1.6 1,474 $1,106 7 $61.2 15 CHOCOLAT Miramax $1.5 260 $5,916 4 $6.4 16 O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? Touchstone $1.4 165 $8,442 3 $3.8 17 UNBREAKABLE Touchstone $1.3 1,106 $1,179 7 $92.0 18 PROOF OF LIFE Warner Bros. $1.3 1,381 $916 5 $31.2 19 RUGRATS IN PARIS -- THE MOVIE Paramount $1.1 1,308 $810 8 $73.1 20 QUILLS Fox Searchlight $0.6 223 $2,761 7 $4.3
SOURCE: ACNIELSEN EDI, INC. WEEKEND OF JAN 5, 2001-JAN 7, 2001 *WEEKEND GROSS AND GROSS-TO-DATE FIGURES IN MILLIONS [1]INCLUDES SOME MULTISCREEN THEATERS AND PRINTS SHIPPED AS WELL AS INDIVIDUAL SCREENS
