JACKASS 3D Tops Out Just Shy of FAHRENHEIT

Michael Moore can rest easy.

He will remain the filmmaker with the biggest nonfiction title of all time8 - at least for now.

Jeff Tremaine's JACKASS 3D closed out the Thanksgiving weekend with an estimated $190K.  And while that's a weekend gross that most docmakers would rejoice at, it's a significant drop (in dollars and in screen numbers) from the film's previous weekend take of $737K.  It's total cume is now $116.5M.

That means that in all likelihood the third film in the JACKASS series will top out a couple million shy of Moore's 2004 blockbuster FAHRENHEIT 9/11, which ended its run with $119M.

While it won't wear the overall box office crown, JACKASS 3D can still boast a number of box office records - the biggest nonfiction opening weekend ever, three of the top four individual days at the nonfiction box office, 19 consecutive days with $1M+ take.

Meanwhile, Davis Guggenheim's WAITING FOR 'SUPERMAN' becomes just the 29th nonfiction feature to make $6M at the box office.  It's far and away the highest grossing doc on the Academy shortlist, which usually means something (whether or not it means everything is an open question).

And Charles Ferguson's INSIDE JOB added another $311K (estimated) to its total, bringing it to $2.6M.  That makes it the 8th highest grossing nonfiction of 2010 - and third highest on the Academy shortlist (behind SUPERMAN and Banksy's EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP).