“Vantage Point” Earns $24 Million in Ticket Sales

February 25, 2008

(Long Island, N.Y.) Movie industry experts indicated that Box-office ticket sales this year have been encouraging despite economic turmoil and the recently concluded Writer’s guild strikeout. Last week’s turnout was no exception; “Vantage Point” topped Box-office sales for the week with over $24 Million in ticket sales by Sunday.

Dennis Quaid leads the cast in the movie as he plays a secret service agent named Thomas Barnes; the film revolves around the plot of a political assassination of the US president played by William Hurt as he was attending a war on terror summit in Spain. Barnes and Kent Taylor are the lead agents assigned to protect President Ashley. Howard Lewis enacted by Forrest Whitaker was an American tourist in Spain and was videotaping the whole event when the incident happened and believes he captured the face of the assassin in his camera and confides his hunch to agent Barnes and Taylor who immediately undertook the burdensome task of unmasking the real fugitive and untangling several eye-popping mysteries in the process.

“Audiences really love it when they get a summer-style popcorn movie at a time of the year when they don’t expect it,” said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box office tracker Media By Numbers. Sony Pictures distributed the movie and distribution department Ronry Bruer illustrated the movie as “fresh with lots of twists and turns. Audiences become very invested in it,”

Last Week’s number one “Jumper” by 20th Century Fox which set a record for highest sales for president’s weekend in gathering over $43.7 Million in its first week amassed another $12.7 million to finish second this week upping its total nationwide two week sales to $56.2 Million. Paramount’s “The Spiderwick Chronicles” came in third with $12.6 Million in sales while “Step Up 2 The Streets” and Warner Bros.’ romantic comedy starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey “Fool’s Gold” finished fourth and fifth respectively.

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