Our Talking Guinea Pig Pack, It Grew By One

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As we pack up our Movieline-skinned Smart Car and prepare to journey up the 5 back to L.A., we look back at our time at Comic-Con mostly with fondness, and maybe just a twinge of regret (primarily over the onset of "Twilightnitus," an irreversible form of hearing loss which manifests itself as the persistent sound of 6500 teenage girls screaming "TAKE IT OFF, TAYLOR!!!" in your ears).

Anyway, HERE ARE YOUR BOX OFFICE NUMBERS. (WHAT?! WE'RE NOT SHOUTING - YOU'RE WHISPERING!)

1. G-Force

Gross: $32,152,000 (new)

Screens: 3,697 (PSA: $8,697)

Weeks: 1

Congratulations, Zach Galifianakis: You are officially The Biggest Star on the Planet™. We hope you don't choose to squander your new comedy-megastar capital by being seduced into playing all 8 members of Disney's planned, latex-driven Untitled Overweight Urban Swiss Family Robinson Project. Use Eddie Murphy's career as a cautionary roadmap. You'll thank us in the end.

2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Gross: $30,000,000 (cume: $221,834,000)

Screens: 4,325 (PSA: $6,936)

Weeks: 2 (Change: -61.5%)

Harry's precipitous second-week drop ties the one for Transformers: Megan Fox's Coinslot -- not exactly a badge of honor for the latest installment, which had been greeted with enthusiastic reviews and general fan contentment. It's a sad statement about today's blockbuster audiences: content to abandon the emotionally needy conjurers they've been wooing for months just moments after blowing their loads, leaving the wizards damaged and heartbroken, with little to do but erect emotional fortresses as they bitterly play pigeon-target-practice with their wands.

3. The Ugly Truth

Gross: $27,000,000 (new)

Screens: 2,882 (PSA: $9,368)

Weeks: 1

$27 million is "right in line with my expectations," said Truth star Vibrating Panties, adding, "There's talk of my own spin-off -- sort of a sexed-up Short Circuit -- but I guess we'll have to see how things play out in the coming weeks."

4. Orphan

Gross: $12,770,000 (new)

Screens: 2,750 (PSA: $4,644)

Weeks: 1

A disappointing showing for Warners' bad seed movie should please orphans' rights activists, many of whom felt the film was irresponsible and would discourage placing their children in loving homes. In fact, a spokeswoman for The Orphan Society of America was going to release a press statement saying as much, but plunged mysteriously to her death from her 7th floor office window. Police are assuming suicide.

5. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Gross: $8,200,000 (cume: $171,291,000)

Screens: 3,300 (PSA: $2,485 )

Weeks: 4 (Change: -53.3%)

You know, we saw people dressed up as just about anything you could imagine at Comic-Con -- save the characters of Ice Age. Just saying.

[Figures: Box Office Mojo]



Comments

  • bess marvin, girl detective says:

    No report about Jennifer's Body?

  • Antonio Rodrigues says:

    Great to log in to Movie Line, hear all abut it and keep on top of the latest. I used to live in (London, Britain) the civilised world but then had to move to Portugal for health reasons. Shame that this is worse than a third world country packed with mentally retarded people and movies arrive here rather late and nobody even hears about them most of the time.