Alright all you Brave-hearts…it was your box office this weekend. That's right, Pixar's new film won the box office and by a pretty damned huge margin. This was the 13th straight first place win for Pixar, proving that it really is the family-friendly studio to reckon with. Madagascar 3 held strong and came in at the number 2 slot, however Brave easily topped its opening weekend number.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter went the way of the flop and came in third bringing in only $16.5 million. I have mixed feelings about this. I mean, I certainly didn't go see it, so I can be grouped in with this, but I worry that when studios take chances on original concepts, and audiences don't come out for them, we are going to be left with our usual fare of sequels and franchises. Now, on the other hand, if they also want us to come out for movies, they have to make them good enough so we don't have to decide if we trust the good review or the bad review before we decide to spend our money on it.
Box Office
 | 1. Brave $66.7 Million / New / $80.2m Total Worldwide Pixar's first female led film scores big. Should we expect to see some princesses next? |
 | 2. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted $20.2 Million / $157.6m Total Domestic / $366m Total Worldwide Parents must have had to spend a lot of money at the movies this weekend. That is, parents and any of us who are kids at heart. |
 | 3. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter $16.5 Million / New / $24.3m Total Worldwide Perhaps Abe should have been hunting something other than Vampires...like ticket sales. |
 | 4. Prometheus $10 Million / $109m Total Domestic / $261m Total Worldwide Holding on to the number four slot, it beat out both new entries from last week. That's somethin'. |
 | 5. Rock of Ages $8 Million / $28.7m Total Domestic / $33m Total Worldwide It's a long road before this one makes its money back. Maybe Tom Cruise can sell his wig and help out? |
 | 6. Snow White & the Huntsman $8 Million / $137.1m Total Domestic / $261.7 I stand corrected, this one is proving it has legs and probably does deserve a sequel. |
 | 7. That's My Boy $7.9 Million / $28.2m Total Domestic / $29.6m Total Worldwide You re-thinking leaving SNL yet, Mr. Samberg? It's a tough world out there. |
 | 8. The Avengers $7 Million / $598.3 m Total Domestic / $1.4b Total Worldwide This concludes a full two months in the domestic box office top ten. Is there anyone left that hasn't seen it? |
 | 9. Men in Black III $5.6 Million / $163.3m Total Domestic / $577.3m Total Worldwide Has made over $500m worldwide and still ranked third in term of the Men in Black movies. Reality check as to just how wildly popular these have been. |
 | 10. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World $3.8 Million / New Oh sad, Steve Carrell. Please go back to being funny. |
I haven't seen Avengers yet, nor Prometheus. Really looking forward to seeing both but the universe conspired to screw me over and each time i planned to see either movie, something happened to scupper it.
That Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, if it had anyone other than Keira Knightley i'd entertain watching it but she angers me, like emma watson in harry potter. something about those girls/women fills me with rage
I haven't seen Avengers yet! I'll probably see it this week.
You can't blame the lack of success for "That's My Boy" on Samberg, he probably got paid a pretty hefty sum to feature in a terrible Adam Sandler comedy. We'll wait until Samberg is in something not starring the most repulsive actor in America. And by repulsive, I literally mean Sandler repels me from seeing movies. That vampire movie they were advertising before Brave looked cute! But Sandler's involvement terrifies me. His effect is only comparable to that of Katherine Heigl, though I've at least enjoyed a couple of Sandler's movies.
I haven't seen Avengers yet, either...but I finally got some free time so I'm planning to go see it on Wednesday. Can't say I'm going to go see any of the other movies on the list, though.
I mean I think in the case of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, I think there's a difference between the fact that it's an adaptation. Also I haven't seen Avengers... for the third time yet.
I'm happy that Pixar has once again made another hit that is number 1 at the box-office. This definitely inspires me to go see Brave.
I also want to go see Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, regardless of how well or poorly it performs at the box-office.
Going to see Avengers today. Can't wait!
Dang movies that I really want to see are starting to poor out. Lucky for me