Monday, March 2, 2009

Box Office Results and Weekly Movie News

Movies coming out this week!

Watchmen - Set in an alternate vision of the year 1985, the murder of an ex-superhero causes a vigilante named Rorshach (Haley) to look into the matter, an investigation that reunites him with his surviving old colleagues -- all of them former superheroes themselves -- and gradually unveils a conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future.

Movies coming out on DVD!

Australia
Beverley Hills Chihuahua
Wonder Woman

Box Office Results for the weekend.

1 Tyler Perry's Madea Goes To Jail$16.5 M

2 Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience$12.7 M

3Slumdog Millionaire$12.1 M

4 Taken $9.9 M

5He's Just Not That into You $5.8 M

6 Paul Blart: Mall Cop$5.6 M

7 Coraline $5.2 M

8Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li $4.6 M

9Confessions of a Shopaholic $4.5 M

10Fired Up $3.8 M

"Madea Goes to Jail" made "The Jonas Brothers" its you-know-what over the weekend. Really slow weekend at that, with low numbers down the board. But "Slumdog Millionaire" is still raking in the dough from its Best Picture (and many other) wins while "Taken" does well because it is just a cool movie.
"Street Fighter" just bombed, tripped, fell and all other sayings that represent and downward spiraling of failure.
This was one of the worst opening weekends since last December, but this weekend has "Watchmen" coming out. What are your predictions on how much it will make?
I'm going to guess at more than $70 million.

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