Benson Lee's B-Boys at the Box Office

Sylvie Kim
April 10, 2008

Wong Kar Wai’s English-language debut My Blueberry Nights, starring Anglo-American and Bengali jazz/pop chanteuse Norah Jones, took in $74,146 on 6 screens in its first week of release. Reviews have been lukewarm for the film, with most critics saying its beautifully shot but low on substance and energy. The trailer is pretty easy on the eyes: 


 

 



In mainstream film news, 21, which was based off of an original story that had some Asian Americans in it here and there, maintained its #1 spot at the box office this past week earning a total of $46.5 million dollars since its release. It will most likely be usurped this weekend by the dreamy-looking hapa Keanu Reeves and his terrible-looking Street Kings (trailer below) which opens this Friday.


 

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Sylvie Kim

contributing editor & blogger

Sylvie Kim is a contributing editor at Hyphen. She previously served as Hyphen's blog coeditor with erin Khue Ninh, film editor, and blog columnist.

She writes about gender, race, class and privilege in pop culture and media (fun fun fun!) at www.sylvie-kim.com and at SF Weekly's The Exhibitionist blog. Her work has also appeared on Racialicious and Salon.

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Comments

boo wrote on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 1:04pm
if '21' is #1 at the box office, then hot damn, i don't know what's the standard for hollywood anymore. it barely got a 40% on rotten people! do we just like shitty movies or what?!
There there... wrote on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 1:13pm
Unfortunately, yes. Shitty movies balance out the good ones. You need it.