Despite it being about as fun as a tracheotomy, the Easter Bunny exposé Hop won the top spot this Friday night, sending the wibbley-wobbly timey-wimey Source Code to second place. If only you could crap candy too, Jake! And right behind dear ol' Jake was the haunted house antics of Insidious, scoring a close number three. Your Friday box office is here.
Everybody loves a good David and Goliath story and boy is this a humdinger of one. In this corner is Zack Snyder, director of big event movies beloved by the Comic Con cognoscenti, helming a movie featuring big explosions, pretty girls in short skirts and elaborate fight scenes, all released in gross-maximizing IMAX and PG-13. In this corner is Diary of a Wimpy Kid, an unassuming kids' movie rushed into production after the relative success of the first installment. And the Kid just cleaned Snyder's clock, despite the aforementioned IMAX surcharges and despite a large chunk of Kid's ticket sales coming from discounted child prices. Ladies and gentlemen, your Weekend Receipts are here.
Well, it seems like we might have a real horse race going here. Despite our predictions that Zack Snyder's CGI onslaught would handily win the weekend, Sucker Punch barely fended off the merciless assault from a kids' movie sequel. In fact, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules might yet come out on top for the weekend once the lucrative Sunday matinee money comes rolling in, but for now it settled for number two. Who do you think is more nervous for those final numbers -- Snyder himself or the producers behind his new Superman? Your Friday box office is here.
Mars Needs Moms, a.k.a. the year's most sensationally expensive bomb to date, stumbled into its second week of release on the same 3,117 screens where it opened Mar. 11. The result was a respectable 23.1% drop from its sad, sad first frame. That's the good news. The bad news is that MNM's estimated $5.3 million gross averaged out to a sad, sad $1,706 per screen, edging Treasure Planet's $1,719 average to become Disney's worst second-week wide-release performer ever. Congrats? [Box Office Mojo]
It was a three-way opening battle for the box office this weekend, but in the end it was the Bradley Cooper's clever d-bag that overpowered the sincere attorney and the sassy alien as Limitless took the top spot. Said attorney and alien took fourth and fifth place respectively, as hold-overs Rango and Battle: Los Angeles took second and third place. Your weekend receipts are here.
It's going to be a bumpy weekend. A scant couple of millions separated first place Limitless from fifth place Rango in the Friday box office, with the difference between number two Battle: Los Angeles, number three Paul and fourth place Lincoln Lawyer being just a few hundred thousand. Look for a lot of jockeying for position and a lot of chest-puffing the next few days, and of course watch the numbers change as the final amounts coming pouring in. Your Friday box office is here.
This weekend, aliens attempted to storm your local cineplex and America decided it likes its space invaders to shoot lasers at LA rather than just nab some moms. Battle: Los Angeles took the box office crown this weekend, while the Robert Zemeckis-produced Mars Needs Moms crash-landed at number five. And occupying that squishy middle ground was Red Riding Hood, which had a so-so debut at so-so number three. Your weekend receipts are here.
The much-maligned Battle: Los Angeles won the fight for audience money if not critics' love on Friday, coming in a strong number one. Lizardy Johnny Depp took second place while the sexy villagers who sex of Red Riding Hood came in at number three. And poor, poor Mars Needs Moms blew up at the launch pad, debuting at a distant fifth place. Your weekend receipts are here.
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.
Johnny Depp and his Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski notched another win on their belts as Rango opened in the top spot this Friday. Matt Damon's The Adjustment Bureau manged a close second place while Beastly came in third. And speaking of beastly, the long-shelved, yayo-packed Take Me Home Tonight barely registered with audiences, coming in tenth place. Your Friday box office is here.
In its second week of release Gnomeo & Juliet scaled the heights of the box office, notching a win in a weak weekend. The dudebros of Hall Pass managed a second place debut, while poor, poor Nicolas Cage laid a Brobdingnagian egg, coming in ninth place. And him without a castle to recover in! Your weekend receipts are here.
While everyone gets ready for a dose of Hollywood glamor at the Oscars this weekend, old-fashioned gross-out kings Peter & Bobby Farrelly ruled the box office as their horny man-child comedy Hall Pass weakly won Friday night. Ass-kicking Liam Neeson dropped down to number two, and speaking of number two, Nicolas Cage's Drive Angry opened in ninth place. Your Friday box office is here.
Coming in at a virtual tie, Adam Sandler's latest laugh-free laffer narrowly beat the Biebs for the glory of a first place finish. The margin is so close -- just a couple hundred thousand dollars -- that it may change by the time the final numbers roll in on Monday. Meanwhile, Gnomeo & Juliet came in a surprisingly close number three, while Channing Tatum's S&M historical epic settled for number four. Your weekend receipts are here.
The inescapable Justin Bieber added a number one opening night to his hall of trophies as Never Say Never took the top spot Friday night, while Adam Sandler's salute to Three's Company-level misunderstandings took number two. Gnomeo and Juliet had to settle for the third spot and The Eagle had to settle for being beaten by a cartoon about garden gnomes, Your Friday box office is here.
As most of America gets ready to watch Green Bay pummel the Steelers, Leighton Meester made the weekend hers as The Roommate hit the top spot. Sanctum lost itself at a distant second place and America's Horny Sweetheart, Natalie Portman, settled for the third spot. Your weekend receipts are here.
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