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'The Bourne Ultimatum' earns $70 million

8/5/2007, 5:29 p.m. EDT
By GARY GENTILE
The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Superspy Jason Bourne delivered more than an ultimatum this weekend as the third in a series of spy thrillers topped box office charts and delivered the biggest August opening of a film ever.

"The Bourne Ultimatum" took in $70.2 million this weekend, far surpassing the openings of both of the earlier Bourne films based on novels by Robert Ludlum.

The opening also pushed last week's top film, "The Simpsons Movie," to second place, with $25.6 million. The big-screen version of the animated TV show has topped $315 million worldwide for distributor Twentieth Century Fox.

"We're really riding high today," said Nikki Rocco, head of distribution for Universal Pictures, which put out "The Bourne Ultimatum." "The reviews and audiences rated this one the best one yet."

The second in the series, "The Bourne Supremacy," earned $52.5 million in its opening weekend in 2004, while the first film, "The Bourne Identity," had an opening weekend take of $27.1 million when it debuted in 2002.

Universal's research showed that more than 90 percent of the opening weekend audience had seen the previous two Bourne films.

"People just love Matt Damon and (director) Paul Greengrass is a superstar," Rocco said. "Matt Damon is the new James Bond."

The film's opening bodes well for a robust August, which is typically when the sweltering summer movie season begins to cool off a bit.

"The summer movie season is alive and well even as we are moving into the home stretch," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers. "The Bourne franchise just keeps getting better with age. The consistency of quality has always been there with the Bourne movies. That builds loyalty among viewers."

This weekend's top 12 films earned a whopping 36 percent more than the top 12 did in the same weekend last year.

Yeah.....No.

I might've wanted to see this, but now Elsia has ruined it for me like she ruins everything.

i watched the first one, but i didn;t care for it. i had read the books back in '99.

I watched the two first, and enjoyed them immensely. So, needless to say, I'm really looking forward to this one.

I saw it this weekend. It was good, I liked it! The action was nicely paced and shot throughout (even the "shaky camera" stuff).

I saw it last night. I enjoyed the hell outta this. And ignoring Elisa's initial post makes me like it that much more.

Nicely played.

But Matt Damon as a super-dee-duper spy?

C'mon...

The first two were great, so I look forward to seeing this!

hes not really a spy. more of an assasin...

I've now seen this movie, and it's highly recommendable.

I still haven't seen it yet.......hmmm, maybe DVD for me at this point.

Elsia ruined it for you too?