(Source: Box Office Mojo)
The box office, like life, rarely grants second chances. However, Paramount's Barnyard: The Original Party Animals jumped back into the middle of the Top 10, rising to the 7th spot. The animated movie made $4,891,459, bringing its 5-week total to $62,080,221. That's $12 million over its production cost of $50 million. This makes Barnyard the only mid-summer animated release to actually make back what the studio paid for it.
Sony's Monster House is inching its way towards profitability. It made $795,546, totalling $70,577,979 over its 7-week run. This would be very good news, except for the fact that the film cost $75 million to make.
Right above Monster House at #19 was Disney/Pixar's Cars, which quietly added another $849,014 to its box office take. It has now made $241,743,295. Cars has handily won the Best Box Office of the year (Animated Division) award.
Warner Bros.' The Ant Bully is sliding towards ignominy with a measly $560,510 added to its total. The film cost $50 million to make, it's now made $26,505,664.
The only new animated film in the near future will be Fox's Everyone's Hero, due on September 15. This film was the late Christopher (Superman) Reeves' last project.
Here's the animated film box office for last weekend:
7) Barnyard: The Original Party Animals (Par.): $4,891,459 ($62,080,221 over 5 weeks)
19) Cars (Buena Vista): $849,014 ($241,743,295 over 13 weeks)
20) Monster House (Sony): $795,546, ($70,577,979 over 7 weeks)
23) The Ant Bully (W.B.): $560,510 ($26,505,664 over 6 weeks)
41) Over the Hedge (Dreamworks): $142,614 ($154,966,834 over 16 weeks)
54) Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (Fox): with $41,303 ($28,347,480 over 12 weeks)
58) A Scanner Darkly (Warner Independent): $36,059 ($5,354,553 over 9 weeks)
84) Ice Age: The Meltdown (Fox): $5,386 ($195,327,048 over 23 weeks)
