| Title | Fri+Sat+Sun | / location | All | |
| 1 | Date Night | $27,100,000 | $8,032 | $27,100,000 |
| 2 | Clash of the Titans | $26,875,000 (-56.1%) | $7,069 | $110,468,000 |
| 3 | How to Train Your Dragon | $25,350,000 (-12.6%) | $6,326 | $133,891,000 |
| 4 | $11,000,000 (-62.4%) | $5,104 | $48,520,000 | |
| 5 | The Last Song | $10,000,000 (-37.5%) | $3,740 | $42,400,000 |
| 6 | Alice in Wonderland | $5,600,000 (-31.8%) | $2,213 | $319,300,000 |
| 7 | Hot Tub Time Machine | $5,430,000 (-32.7%) | $2,080 | $36,969,000 |
| 8 | The Bounty Hunter | $4,300,000 (-29.4%) | $1,482 | $56,001,000 |
| 9 | $4,100,000 (-22.7%) | $1,671 | $53,756,000 | |
| 10 | Letters to God | $1,250,000 | $1,394 | $1,250,000 |
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On Friday I suggested the difference between the opening two pictures would be about a half million. It was smaller. And Date Night managed to trump Clash of the Titans, though this is a case where actuals may give us a different order for the top three films, as Klady has Clash over Date Night by a half a million. Date Night has the possibility to have a good multiplier, in that the majority of box office successes we’ve seen are incredibly front-loaded, and coedy and date movies can play much longer. That makes the idea of the film hitting $100 Million not absurd. But just as likely would be the picture doing $60-$70 million all in. This has all the earmarkings of a cable favorite. International probably won’t be that strong, but they opened at #1 stateside, and no one’s embarrassed, while director Shawn Levy is likely circling
Clash of the Titans was the subject of a Jeffery Katzenberg interview suggesting studios be a little careful about how they apply a third dimension to their films. This is likely because Clash of the Titans in 3-D was a cash grab. Will anyone listen? Probably not until it’s too late. Then again, the 3-D for this movie wasn’t an afterthought, it was an afterbirth thought. Instead of relying on 3-D, they should really just digitally insert Mike Starr into films. He makes everything better by his presence and is never bad. Clash may have troubles getting to $150 Million, but it’ll get there just the same. Warners better hope for good international. Last weekend 3-D accounted for half the film’s business, so Warner Brothers was probably right in doing what they did in the short term.
But How to Train Your Dragon, that’s a hold. It looks like the DreamWorks Animated film has found an audience, and no one’s pissed off with its 3-D. With an amazing 12% fall, $200 Million might not be out of reach. That’s impressive, considering, but it also won’t have a lot of direct competition until summer season starts. It all depends if Furry Vengeance plays to kids (it may not play to humans).
Old joke: How do you cure AIDS? A: Give it to MGM to distribute.
Letters to God is a Christian-funded film (it seems) and may play to that audience. I don’t know if it’s going to do Fireproof business, but the audience who goes to these sorts of films doesn’t usually behave like any other audience, which means it could play all summer with slow and steady business. That per screen isn’t great, but that doesn’t mean it can’t hold on. Then again, it could just be a blip.
Alice is almost done, The Bounty Hunter gets to $60, summer is less than a month away.
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I really hope that How to Train your Dragon DOES end up beating Clash of the Shite'uns. It ceetainly deserves to. I'm glad Alice is done, but good grief that listless piece of crap shouldn't have made that much money.
As far as nerd girl hotness goes, a lot of people seem to be into Felicia Day. She's cute, does Whedon's shit, has her own web series about gamers, and recently wrote a comic adaptation too.
But then, that might be nerd girl cuteness, rather than hotness.
women like Olivia Munn do not count. Adrianne Curry might, though.
Date Night is a surprisingly funny movie. That has to be the weirdest car chase ever filmed.
Adrianne Curry is supposed to be smart? I never got that impression from any of her reality shows. Plus, she married a washed up Brady. I doubt Mensa is offering her membership. Oh, I guess she said she likes Star Wars. Is that all it takes? How about Danica McKellar for the win? She's a mathematician and education advocate who has written two bestselling books on math and she still looks just like Winnie Cooper except grown up into a hot, sexy body.
My wife and her church friend went to see that Letters to God. They tried to drag me along, I said no thanks, I'll wait until it's playing on Lifetime for the 100th time…
Curry might count for talking on twitter about getting high and playing World of Warcraft. She would never top a list, but you can't fake that.
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