Friday Box Office: Friday For Schmucks
Despite the fervent predictions of some around the Movieline HQ, a Bourne-ified Angelina couldn't knock Inception off its roost, but it seems like a wan Steve Carrell comedy -- where the funniest thing in the flick are the taxidermied mice -- might just pull it off. Dinner For Schmucks topped the Friday box office (though just barely), while Charlie St. Cloud settled for number four and Cats and Dogs 2 limped in at number six. Your full numbers are after the jump.
1. DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS: $8,300,000 (new)
2. INCEPTION: $8,100,000 ($173,000,000)
3. SALT: $5,900,000 ($57,000,000)
4. CHARLIE ST. CLOUD: $5,600,000 (new)
5. DESPICABLE ME: $4,600,000 ($180,000,000)
6. CATS AND DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE: $4,200,000 (new)
[via Deadline]
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Schmucks, indeed. Looks like all the minds bent from multiple viewings of Inception wanted a little comedy (very little) instead of a little SALT.
Wow. Didn't even know this was out already.
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You mean the sequel to the nine year old atrocity Cats & Dogs, which finally answered all the dangling threads left over from the first, didn't take the box office by storm?
Now I feel like a SUCKER for paying the extra $4 for 3-D.
Hilariously, someone fed Nikki Finke an estimate of $10.2M for SHMUCKS last night around 10PM and she fell for it. Not at all shockingly, the correction was made yet not noted as a (gigantic) correction. Typical.
I should add that I've updated this post with the latest numbers. Usually the exact numbers will fluctuate slightly as the final figures roll in, but since there was such a large discrepancy between the initial gross and the final gross, I've changed it accordingly.
Steve Carrell has 2 movies in the top 5 in theatres right now.... Pretty cool for him. No wonder he is leaving the office
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