By the Numbers

By R. Kinsey Lowe

July 19, 2005 12 AM PT

Weekend box office

“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” had a slightly sweeter opening than estimates in Monday’s story indicated, bringing in $56.2 million instead of $55.4 million. Additionally, a foresighted mistake in Monday’s story turned out to be correct when estimates were updated with more reliable numbers: “Charlie” had the third-best opening weekend this year. The earlier story managed to overlook the $56.1-million opening the previous weekend of “Fantastic Four,” which was better than the $55.4 million Warner Bros. estimated for the Tim Burton-Johnny Depp collaboration, and until Monday morning, “Fantastic” would have had the year’s third-best opening weekend.

“Wedding Crashers” also wound up performing better than expected, taking in $33.9 million instead of the $32.2 million reported Monday.

R. Kinsey Lowe

*--* MOVIE 3-DAY GROSS TOTAL (MILL.) VENUES AVG VENUE WEEKS

1Charlie and $56.2 $56.2 3,770 $14,901 1 the Chocolate Factory (Warner Bros.)

2Wedding $33.9 $33.9 2,925 $11,590 1 Crashers (New Line)

3Fantastic Four $22.8 $100.2 3,619 $6,295 2 (20th Century Fox)

4War of the $15.2 $192.4 3,724 $4,094 3 Worlds (Paramount)

5Batman Begins $6.0 $183.1 2,810 $2,148 5 (Warner Bros.)

6Mr. & Mrs. $5.2 $168.3 2,370 $2,209 6 Smith (Fox)

7Dark Water $4.6 $18.9 2,657 $1,735 2 (Buena Vista)

8 Herbie: $3.6 $56.0 2,481 $1,459 4 Fully Loaded (Buena Vista)

9Bewitched $2.6 $57.0 2,290 $1,116 4 (Sony)