Is Sweeney Todd a bomb?
Nationl Treasure: $45 million
Sweeney Todd: 9.5 million
Well, no one was expecting ST to be #1 at the box office - that was expected to be a battle between NT and
I Am Legend. Also, ST is playing in far fewer theaters: 1,249 vs. NT's 3,832.
What I think is interesting is that Variety is reporting that ST is skewing more male than female. What's not surprising, though, is that 65% of attendees were over 25. So, with NT broadly appealing to a younger crowd, and what with ST in less than a third of NT's theaters, ST's gross is healthy.