Michael Bay's $122 million summer blockbuster The Island, starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson, fizzled at the box office, earning an estimated $12.1 million, only a third of what some analysts had projected.  Tim Burton's version of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starring Johnny Depp dropped 49.6% to $28.3 million but still remained atop the weekend box office charts.  New Line comedy Wedding Crashers fell only 22% and finished a very close second with an estimated $26.2 million while totally trouncing its comedic competition -- a remake of the Bad News Bears, which earned an estimated $11.5 million during its debut weekend.  Wedding Crashers averaged a muscular $8.957 per location in its second week indicating that this comedy should be around for awhile since comedies with good word of mouth tend to have much better 'legs' than promotion-driven, front-loaded action pictures.

Fantastic Four, which continues to benefit from promotional tie-ins with SBC and others, performed better than expected dropping just 46% and earning an estimated $12.27 million during its third frame.  The FF movie has now grossed $122.5 million.  Checking in on the other major summer action film releases it appears that Batman Begins is closing in on $200 million after earning an estimated $4.7 million and finishing in the ninth spot; War of the Worlds earned an estimated $8.8 million as it plowed past the $200 million barrier; and Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith is just about played out with a year-to-date-leading cumulative total of $375 million.  Overall the weekend box office after topping the 2004 total last weekend in week 28 reverted to its typical 2005 form and came in well behind the '04 total for week 29.

The Devil's Rejects, Rob Zombie's horror sequel to House of 1000 Corpses, opened in eighth place with an estimated total of $7 million.  House of 1000 Corpses demonstrated considerable 'legs' back in 2003 and the hard 'R' Devil's Rejects averaged a substantial $3,984 per location marking it as a title with 'cult hit' potential.