Weekend Receipts: Rango Rules, The 80s Drool

America, this weekend you decided you were really in the mood to see a bunch of anthropomorphic desert critters getting into hi-jinks, that you sorta wanted to see Matt Damon running around with Emily Blunt, and that you had absolutely no interest in seeing Topher Grace and bunch of cocaine point out how weird things used to be in the 80s. Good choices all around, America! Your weekend receipts are here.

1. Rango

Gross: $38,000,000 (new)

Screens: 3,917 (PSA: $9,701)

Weeks: 1

Pirates of the Caribbean 3 aside, let me tell you why director Gore Verbinski is my hero. He said NO to 3D. He realized it wouldn't add anything to the film -- in fact, it would detract from meticulously-planned shots -- and would only served as an extra bump in ticket prices. Your name may be bloody, GV, but your heart is true.

2. Adjustment Bureau

Gross: $20,945,000 (new)

Screens: 2,840 (PSA: $7,375)

Weeks: 1

Have you seen those Adjustment Bureau ads where they trumpet some schmoe who claims that it's "better than Inception?" First off, it's not, but more importantly, the movie's nothing at all like Inception. They don't even share the same general themes, other than they are both filled with actors who are pretending to be fictional characters. It's like saying The Wizard of Oz was a much better movie than Schindler's List.

3. Beastly

Gross: $10,115,000 (new)

Screens: 1952 (PSA: $5,182)

Weeks: 1

Well, at least Alex Pettyfer didn't have to take off his shirt again for some handsy lesbian and her coven of horny hausfraus.

4. Hall Pass

Gross: $9,015,000 ($27,001,000)

Screens: 2,950 (PSA: $3,056)

Weeks: 2 (change: -33.4%)

How do you think they sold this concept in places like France and Italy? "So the guy gets a pass from his wife to go out and cheat!" "Eesn't zat normal?" "No I mean, he actually gets explicit permission to be unfaithful for a whole week." "Yust a week? How tragic..."

5. Gnomeo & Juliet

Gross: $6,912,000 ($83,694,000)

Screens: 2,984 (PSA: $2,316)

Weeks: 4 (change: -48.4%)

And just like that, the children of America were given a chance to see something other than gnomes at the movie theaters. And the children rejoiced and the gnomes dropped from #1 to #5.

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11. Take Me Home Tonight

Gross: $3,500,000 (new)

Screens: 2,003 (PSA: $1,747)

Weeks: 1

Damn, girl. Even MacGruber managed to open in the top ten. And even though I actually like Topher Grace as an actor quite a bit, I hope this is the nail in the coffin for the mindless 80s fetishization that's been going on in Hollywood for the last year or so. This bombed, Glory Daze has been canceled, it's time to put the leg warmers away

[Numbers via Box Office Mojo]