Beverly Hills Chihuahua Movie News

‘Beverly Hills Chihuahua’ Still Top Dog At Box Office
Oct 13 2008:
#1 “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” ($17.5 million)
#2 “Quarantine” ($14.2 million)
#3 “Body of Lies” ($13.1 million)
#4 “Eagle Eye” ($11 million)
#5 “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” ($6.5 million)

Disney’s “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” won the weekend box office for the second-straight week. It made $17.5 million. The talking-dog-starring movie brought its overall total to $52.5 million.

‘Beverly Hills Chihuahua’ Claims Best In Show At Box Office
Oct 6 2008: Starring the voice talents of Drew Barrymore, George Lopez and Andy Garcia, “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” won the weekend box office by a hefty margin, proving that we should all be concerned about the fate of the world. The film that inspired its own star to call it “the most annoying [thing] you’ve ever witnessed in your life,” made $29 million. Cue the famine, pestilence, etc.

‘Max Payne’ Takes Aim At ‘Beverly Hills Chihuahua’ For Box-Office #1
Despite disappointing opening, awards buzz builds around ‘W.’
Oct 20 2008: With only a couple of weeks left before the presidential election, director Oliver Stone was betting that audiences would want to look back on the nation’s controversial leader of the past eight years. As it turned out, viewers were instead eager to relive a whole different kind of pain.

Mark Wahlberg’s “Max Payne” led the weekend box office with $18 million, putting it in first place. The moody, noir-esque adaptation of the best-selling video game series cast the former Funky Bunch leader as a disgruntled cop out to avenge the murder of his family. Mila Kunis, Chris O’Donnell and Chris “Ludacris” Bridges all played against type in the flick that was directed by hit (”Behind Enemy Lines”) or miss (”The Omen”) filmmaker John Moore.

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Box Office Guru Wrapup: Chihuahua is Top Dog
Oct 5 2008: This weekend a jam-packed slate of eight new films opening or expanding nationwide flooded the multiplexes but it was a pampered little dog that ticket buyers wanted turning Disney’s family comedy Beverly Hills Chihuahua into the box office king. Younger-skewing movies ruled the charts while an assortment of niche pics targeting specific audiences found some success elsewhere in the top ten. Three new films opening in over 1,000 theaters each failed to even make the top ten proving that the marketplace can only handle so much content. But the variety of product did lead ticket sales well ahead of year-ago levels starting October on a positive note.

Moviegoers just couldn’t resist talking animals and the Disney brand name as Beverly Hills Chihuahua delivered a powerful number one opening with an estimated $29M over the Friday-to-Sunday period. Averaging a stellar $9,020 from 3,215 locations, the PG-rated tale of a rich dog lost in Mexico connected with kids and parents and posted the best opening for a kidpic since June’s WALL•E launched to $63.1M. It was the second best family film opening ever in the September-October corridor trailing only Will Smith’s Shark Tale which debuted to $47.6M in October 2004. Also helping the Mouse House this weekend was the lack of good family movies over the past couple of months. The road ahead looks rosy as few options for children stand in the way of Chihuahua over the next month. Between now and the November 7 launch of the DreamWorks sequel Madagascar Escape 2 Africa there is High School Musical 3, but that belongs to the Disney empire.

Critics Consensus: Chihuahua a Dog; Nick and Norah a Hot Item
Oct 2 2008: This week at the movies, we’ve got hot dogs (Beverly Hills Chihuahua, starring Drew Barrymore and Andy Garcia), young love (Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, starring Michael Cera and Kat Dennings), magazine mishaps (How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, starring Simon Pegg and Kirsten Dunst), vision loss (Blindness, starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo), Dickensian satire (An American Carol, starring Kevin Farley and Kelsey Grammer), invention thievery (Flash of Genius starring Greg Kinnear and Lauren Graham), and hired guns (Appaloosa, starring Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen). What do the critics have to say?

Rotten Tomatoes loves canines and we have an office located in Beverly Hills, but even we couldn’t help but feel pangs of despair and embarrassment whilst enduring the trailer to Beverly Hills Chihuahua. So imagine our surprise when the movie comes out of the gate with a Fresh Tomatometer! And imagine our non-surprise when it freefalls into Rotten territory. Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, and George Lopez give voice to the dogs of BHC, a movie being praised by the critics for enthusiastic voice performances but its lack of surprise or originality does little to separate it from anything else littered throughout the family-movie bone yard. At 45 percent, your kids are barking up the right tree this weekend in Beverly Hills.

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