No, you aren't dreaming. That is the reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street sitting atop the box office chart today with a ridiculous $15 million Friday night gross -- a horror genre record $1.6 million of which came from midnight screenings on Thursday. For reference, that's more than the rest of the top-ten grossed combined. However if you think Elm Street proves audiences will literally see anything with a suffocating marketing campaign, there's Furry Vengeance. The Brendan Fraser disaster opened with a Monkeybone-like $2 million on Friday to land in fifth. At least some people still have standards. The top-five ahead.
1. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET: $15,000,000 (new)
2. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: $2,400,000 ($183,900,000)
3. DATE NIGHT: $2,300,000 ($68,300,000)
4. THE BACK-UP PLAN: $2,300,000 ($18,000,000)
5. FURRY VENGEANCE: $2,000,000 (new)
[Deadline]