What you see above, take about a hundred minutes of that, and what you have is a recipe for a box office record-setter. That's right, not only did Jackass 3-D easily take the top spot at this weekend's box office, it pretty much shattered the box office record for a September-October release, raking in an estimated $50 million. For comparison's sake, the original Jackass: The Movie did $22 million on its opening, and Jackass: Number Two did $29 million. Granted, the addition of 3D ticket prices probably did the movie a few favors, but that's still a pretty insane number for a movie featuring dudes abusing each other physically and fecally in three dimensions. I'm not surprised the movie did well, because Jackass is always a crowd-pleaser. It's just kinda nuts how well it did.
The only other major release this weekend, RED, wasn't exactly a disappointment either. Its second place opening was better than most fall movies' number one openings, with around $22 million in ticket sales. In case you were wondering, that's Bruce Willis' best opening since Live Free or Die Hard. I don't know how that compares to Helen Mirren's last opening, but I'm guessing it's probably pretty good.
Not much other news of note on the list this weekend. The Social Network continued to hold on strong in third place, Secretariat had a slightly better second week than its main competition from last week, the putrid Katherine Heigl romcom Life As We Know It, and inexplicably, My Soul to Take remained on the list for a second week, ruining a bet I had with a friend of mine. Great, now I owe him a bottle of scotch. Oh yeah, you can bet I'll be buying him the cheap stuff.
Beyond the scope of the top ten, however, there were a few interesting tidbits. Clint Eastwood's sprawling psychic drama, Hereafter, which opened on just six screens this weekend, pulled in an insane $38,000 per-screen average, and around $230,000 total in ticket sales. That movie's probably gonna do pretty well this weekend, when it goes wide. Conversely, the conservative documentary, I Want Your Money, did an absolutely paltry $532 per-screen, despite opening on over 500 screens. Yeah, that's bad. It's Kind of a Funny Story, which debuted 12th last weekend, held that spot for a second week in a row. And the number 11 movie this weekend? You know what, I'm not even going to tell you. It's too insane. Click the link to see the full list, and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Box Office Report: 10/15 - 10/17
 | 1. Jackass 3-D $50 million / NEW Is this a sign of the apocalypse, or something? Probably not. Just a sign that people are still intensely hungry for ludicrous physical comedy. Not that I didn't enjoy the movie, but I kind of hope this doesn't translate to a fourth film. This thing has run its course over the last ten years. Anyone vehemently disagree with me? |
 | 2. Red $22.5 million / NEW I'd call this a good opening for a graphic novel adaptation, but the thing is, this movie has so little to do with the graphic novel it's based on, that that just doesn't seem accurate. I'll just call this a good opening for a movie starring hell of old actors killing hell of people. |
 | 3. The Social Network $11 million / $63.1 million The Facebook movie continues to kill it in its third week. By the way, for those who keep asking us what we think about the portrayal of women in this movie, here's the short answer: It's fine. These guys had groupies, the portrayal of them doesn't seem any more over-the-top than the portrayal of the guys themselves. It's...fine. |
 | 4. Secretariat $9.5 million / $27.5 million Horsies are pretty. Tee hee. |
 | 5. Life as We Know It $9.2 million / $28.9 million If you do a Google search for " Katherine Heigl Poopface," we're the first link that pops up. I can't tell you how happy that makes me. |
 | 6. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole $4.2 million / $46 million I came to the conclusion this past week that in order to salvage the miserable existence of this movie, some band needs to write a concept metal album around this story. I'm thinking Christopher Lee-esque symphonic metal, with a touch of the Norwegian black metal, for good measure. Someone get on this. |
 | 7. The Town $4 million / $80.5 million I am officially out of Boston jokes to toss out for this one so...um...moving on! |
 | 8. My Soul to Take $3.1 million / $11.9 million I'm assuming the upcoming releases of Paranormal Activity 2 and Saw 3D will cause this thing to sink like a stone, but that it remains on this list at all for a second week is, quite frankly, irritating. And not just because I owe someone booze now. |
 | 9. Easy A $2.7 million / $52.3 million Insert reference to Emma Stone's more pleasing qualities. |
 | 10. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps $2.4 million / $47.9 million Last week for Wall Street, it seems. It had a good run, and is doing decent numbers overseas. Never got around to seeing it, but I have a feeling I'll be just fine watching this on cable late at night some random, drunken evening in the future. Now then, brace yourselves for the number 11 movie people, because it's a doozy. |
 | 11. N-Secure $1.4 million / NEW Hey, remember that movie I made fun of on last Friday's What to Watch? The one I was totally confused about opening on like nearly 500 screens when it looked like the sort of movie that would have ended up in my 30 Days of Hate feature? Yeah, that movie MADE SOME MONEY. Please, if anyone here actually took the time to go see this, TELL ME HOW IT IS. Lord knows I'll never get around to it myself. |
Dropped Out: You Again, Case 39
Source: Box Office Mojo
Also, googling "Katherine Heigl poopface" yields three results from Screened, two from Giant Bomb, and three from Comic Vine. Whiskey Media, keep doing us proud!
Edit: Also also, Google Chrome spell check doesn't recognize the word "googling." How strange.
No more Jackass. You've done good by us fans. Though I'm sure I'll watch a Jackass 3.5 when that inevitably releases on DVD.
Granted, i wouldn't mind seeing the crew come back for something different. As long as there was a reason for it.
No Tested huh? I guess Will Smith is too classy for that kind of stuff anyways.