Weekend Box Office
1)
Race to Witch Mountain $25 million
2)
Watchmen $18 million
3)
The Last House on the Left $14.6 million
4)
Taken $6.6 million
5)
Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail $5.1 million
6)
Slumdog Millionaire $5 million
7)
Paul Blart: Mall Cop $3.1 million
8)
He's Just Not That Into You $2.9 million
9)
Coraline $2.6 million
10)
Miss March $2.3 million
Disney's
Race to Witch Mountain flew out of the gate going 100 miles per hour. The kid-friendly thriller raced into the number one spot this weekend, taken in an estimated $25 million. This was $3 million more than the opening grosses for Dwayne Johnson's 2007 comedy
The Game Plan, which proved to be a substantial hit for both Disney and The Rock. That film went on to collect more than $90 million at the box office.
Race to Witch Mountain will most likely do the same.
Dropping to number two in its second week of release is the comic book adaptation
Watchmen. The action drama pulled in another $18 million, which places its cumulative grosses at $86 million. Opening in third place was Wes Craven's remake of
The Last House on the Left. A crowd pleaser, this horrifying new take on an old classic pulled in $14.6 million. This week's only other major release
Miss March kerplunked itself all the way down in the number ten spot. It opened this weekend to a rather lackluster $2.3 million take.
Opening in limited release, the dramedy
Sunshine Cleaning had the highest per screen average for the weekend. It took in an estimated $214,000 playing on four screens. If given the 3,187 screens held by
Race to Witch Mountain, the film could have potentially walked away with $6.8 billion dollars. Also opening in limited release was the film
Tokyo Sonata which earned $30,000 from just two screens.
Next week makes for a crowded marketplace as the comedy
I Love You, Man opens against the Julia Roberts' caper
Duplicity as well as Nicolas Cage's
Knowing. The Rock doesn't stand a chance.
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And it's been ages since I saw "Jingle All the Way," so my bad. It's really not that big of a deal that Dwayne Johnson (You can't call him The Rock anymore, people) does Disney films, since he's good at em. But w/e. We all have opinions for a reason, right?
It is a matter of proportion between the amount of previous hype and the actual result, that's where it failed.
...and Wes Craven is a hack for Re-Making "The Last House on the Left" ...Man it also got the "WORST" reviews of any film so far this year!!!
I knew "Watchmen" would fall ....the hype wore off!!!
NEXT WEEK IS "Duplicity: W./Clive Owen & Julia Roberts...This is what I can't wait to see this weekend (03/20/2009)!
Nicolas Cage's "Knowing" LOOKS interesting ...but most of Mr. Carge's films have sucked!!!