The title said it all, and the movie itself was an afterthought. Months of media and Internet coverage over the bluntly descriptive yet ridiculous name, Snakes on a Plane, turned out to be nothing but hype, and the picture remained what it always was: an average horror genre picture for August, Box Office Mojo reports.
Slinking onto 4,900 screens at 3,555 theaters, Snakes on a Plane snared an estimated $13.9 million over the weekend. The opening was a bit higher than Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid’s $12.8 million in August 2004, but below Red Eye, another plane-based thriller that made $16.2 million on the same weekend last year.
