Ice Cube's 'Barbershop' Still A Cut Above

09/23/2002 5:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Jerry Armor

(9/23/02, 5 p.m. ET) -- Bullets and big budgets lost out to modestly priced films in theaters this weekend. The ensemble comedy Barbershop, featuring rapper-actors Ice Cube and Eve, retained its Number One position at the box office with a $13.3 million sophomore-week performance. The girl-power flick The Banger Sisters, starring Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon, opened in second place with a respectable $10.3 million debut.

In third place was one of the year's biggest hits, the $5 million indie-that-could, My Big Fat Greek Wedding. The film added another $10 million and change to its dowry, bringing the movie's total earnings to more than $124 million.

Two new films, Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever and The Four Feathers, were neck and neck in fourth and fifth place, earning $7.11 and $7.10 million, respectively, according to early estimates.

Trapped, the weekend's only other new release, opened in tenth place. The Kevin Bacon kidnap drama was deliberately not widely publicized for fear that the movie's subject matter--the kidnapping of a little girl--would strike a sour chord with the public in light of recent real-life events.

-- Steve Iervolino, New York

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