B.O. Update: 'Lakeview Terrace' Wins Friday with $13.5M

www.hollywood.com - 20th Sep 2008

Aaron Eckhart: Samuel L. Jackson's “scare tactics” in Lakeview Terrace (Sony) have put this Neil LaBute-directed thriller at the top of the box office heap for the three-day weekend. The racially-charged, crooked-cop yarn sold an estimated $4.7M in tickets on Friday, and it should finish the weekend with $13.5M or so. For Jackson, Lakeview Terrace doesn't even crack his top 15 openings, settling for a number on par with 2006's Snakes on a Plane ($13.8M), but it is easily LaBute's all-time biggest opening, surpassing his dreadful remake of The Wicker Man ($9.6M). The playwright-turned-director became friends with budding superstar Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight) while attending BYU, and the square-jawed actor starred in LaBute Read full story at www.hollywood.com

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