Box Office Beat Down: 21 Beats the House with $23 Million

Weekend Box Office:

1)21 $23.7 million

2)Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who $17.4 million

3)Superhero Movie $9.5 Million

4)Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns $7.7 million

5) Drillbit Taylor $5.8 million

6) Shutter $5.3 million

7) 10,000 B.C. $4.8 million

8) Stop Loss $4.5 million

9) College Road Trip $3.5 million

10) The Bank Job $2.8 million

21 rolled into town this weekend looking like a true winner with a box office take of $23 million. This was enough to insure the film the top position on this week's box office chart. Audience favorite Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who had a very low drop in its numbers, managing to stay near the top at number two with a third weekend take of $17.4 million. This brings the animated feature's cumulative gross to $117 million. It is officially a blockbuster.

Superhero Movie failed to follow the spoof trend of stealing that number one spot away from more prestigious films this week. The comic book comedy only managed to grab a meager $9.5 million in third place. But it was MTV's Stop Loss that tripped all over itself on the way to the theater. Kimberly Peirce's follow-up to Boys Don't Cry barely squeaked into the 8th place spot with just $4.5 million.

A couple of independent films toppled into the box office this weekend as well. The Simon Pegg-David Schwimmer team up Run, Fat Boy, Run hit at thirteenth place with $2.3 million playing on a healthy 1,133 screens. Demi Moore's latest drama Flawless opened on just 35 screens, pulling in an estimate $180,000. Priceless grabbed a fare take of $117,000 playing out on just 24 screens. While the film My Brother is an Only Child pulled in the highest per screen average with an amazing $10,500 on just one screen.

Next week George Clooney will likely rule the roost with his third directorial effort Leatherheads. Also opening will be the films The Ruins, My Blueberry Nights, Nim's Island, and Sex and Death 101.

21 was released March 28th, 2008 and stars Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Aaron Yoo, Liza Lapira, Jacob Pitts, Laurence Fishburne, Jack McGee. The film is directed by Robert Luketic.


Sources: Box Office Mojo

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Comments (11)

  1. They call me ITCHY BALLS

    So FREAKIN' what? Gimmee some of that stuff and THEN I'd be interested in the numbers.

    4 years agoby @danbrchFlag

  2. The Kwisatz Haderach

    21 was good I enjoyed it

    4 years agoby @the-kwisatz-haderachFlag

  3. Marcusx

    i just saw 21. it was very good. i gotta go write a review

    4 years agoby @marcusxFlag

  4. CelluloidDreams

    "21" had a very twisty nasty little ending!! Shhh if you have seen it don't give it away! "21" was better than what critics said, I agree there!

    4 years agoby @2movieguysFlag

  5. Phatlightning

    yea, whats up with the critics on the 21 movie?? whatever, this proved them wrong.

    4 years agoby @sxers2k1Flag

  6. Moviemaniack1993

    Superhero Movie was actually good. The best spoof movie since Scary Movie 3. It's a shame that sh*t like Meet the Spartans winds up # 1, but an actual good spoof doesn't. They also didn't market it very well by putting all the dumb parts in the TV spots and trailer. (Btw, for those who don't know, this movie has NOTHING to do with the creators of Date Movie, Epic Movie, or Meet the Spartans).

    4 years agoby @moviemaniack1993Flag

  7. Bink

    21 was not as bad as the critics r making it out to be.

    4 years agoby @justbink07Flag

  8. CelluloidDreams

    I saw "21" (B+) and "Stop Loss" (B-)...both very good films for the movie dollar! I would highly recommend both films!!

    Congrats to "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who" for being a blockbuster!!!

    "Superhero" looked stupid, nothing worth spending a dime on!!

    I hope "Flawless" &/Or "My Blueberry Nights" opens in Phoenix, AZ!!!

    4 years agoby @2movieguysFlag

  9. T.Clark

    Horton even beat it and that's been out for a few weeks!! HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

    4 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  10. T.Clark

    Superhero movie bombed, YES!!!!!! heh, heh, heh Maybe now they'll think twice before making spoofs...but they prolly won't

    4 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  11. T.Clark

    I woulda liked to see 21 make 21 million...

    4 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

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