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May 01, 2006

THREE DIVA ARTFILM CATFIGHT WEEKEND SPUTTERS

Three TimesA sharp-eyed reader passes along a link to the American trailer for Hou Hsiao-hsien's THREE TIMES.

April 28th was supposed to usher in THREE DIVA ARTFILM CATFIGHT WEEKEND with the releases of CLEAN (Maggie Cheung), THREE TIMES (Shu Qi) and LADY VENGEANCE (Lee Young-Ae). But things got off to a weak start when Tartan moved its release of LADY VENGEANCE to May 5 (going head to head with THE PROMISE). But that stills leaves Maggie Cheung and Shu Qi in the ring. Neither could beat Robin Williams' caa-caa comedy, RV (which grossed a depressing, in every sense of the word, US$16 million) but they could beat each other. And the winner????

Results uncertain, check again later.

THREE TIMES took in US$15,900 on four screens for a per screen average of US$3975. But CLEAN's box office isn't being reported yet.

May 1, 2006 at 08:48 AM in News | Permalink

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Lady Vengeance is playing at the moment. Here in NYC it's at the AMC Empire 25.

Posted by: Al | May 1, 2006 12:49:23 PM

To update:

"Clean" took in $14,953 on 2 screens for a $7,476 average.
"Lady Vengeance" took in $9,850 on 2 screens for a $4,925 average.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/

Posted by: Al | May 1, 2006 2:22:43 PM

Actually we shouldn't forget that our Bwood queen, Aishwarya Rai, opened last weekend in the flick "Mistress of Spices." Depending on whether Rainbow Films will report grosses or not, we may have another figure to compare!

Posted by: Al | May 1, 2006 2:47:33 PM

Whoomp! It looks like Maggie beat Lee Young-Ae. Not what I would have expected.

Ah, but Shu Qi beats them all.

Posted by: Grady Hendrix | May 2, 2006 4:33:57 AM

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