Moviegoers were pretty passionate about “He’s Just Not That Into You,” packing theatres to take the romantic comedy to the top the North American box office at the weekend, Exhibitor Relations said Sunday.
The Baltimore-set romp netted over 27 million dollars between Friday and Sunday, topping last weekend’s biggest grossing film “Taken.”
On its debut weekend, the Warner Brothers produced movie — staring Drew Barrymore, Kevin Connolly, and Jennifer Aniston — showed on 3,175 screens.
Directed by Ken Kwapis, of “The Office” and “Malcolm in the Middle” the tale of twenty-somethings and their relationship woes averaged 8,650 dollars per theatre.It beat out the thriller “Taken” which finished in second place, earning 20.3 million dollars, to rack up a total of 53 million since it premiered last weekend.
Starring Liam Neeson as a former spy working to rescue his kidnapped daughter, “Taken” secured 24 million dollars in nearly 3,200 theaters across North America during its opening weekend.
The animated children’s adventure “Coraline” came in third place bagging more than 16 million dollars in its first weekend.
Another new arrival, “The Pink Panther” came in at fourth, beating comedy “Paul Blart Mall Cop” — the tale of a security guard turned hero — which trailed in fifth.
The sci-fi thriller “Push” came in sixth, earning just over 10 million dollars to edge out ten-time Oscar-nominated “Slumdog Millionaire,”
Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino,” was the highest grossing film in total. The tale of a foul-mouthed Korean War veteran raked in overall earnings of 120 million over nine weeks and came in eighth
“The Uninvited” — a ghoulish tale of death and haunting — stood in ninth place, trailed by the family flick “Hotel for Dogs.”
Source: AFP
