Elsewhere, the Twilight wannabe Red Riding Hood came in third, with about $14.1 million in tickets. That sandwiches it between the Jack Nicholson werewolf "classic" Wolf, and 2005's Cursed, which I didn't even know existed until just now.
The last new release of the weekend was the Robert Zemeckis-produced 3D animated creep-fest Mars Needs Moms. Up until now, people have been all about Zemeckis' brand of recreating humans through computers for no other reason than because he can. Now, it seems, they've turned on him, with the film only taking in $6.8 million upon opening. Just to list a few computer animated films that had stronger openings, we've got The Ant Bully, Alpha and Omega, 9, Igor and Space Chimps. Thankfully, it managed to beat Fly Me to the Moon. That would have just been embarrassing, otherwise.
On the indie front, a few new releases hit, and people evidently were very much enthused to get back to their local art house theaters after a long dry spell. Jane Eyre, Kill the Irishman and Certified Copy all debuted on 4-5 screens each, and all of them grossed over $16,000 per-screen, with Eyre earning the highest average of $45,000 per. I like to think that's due to what I call the " Fassbender effect." Namely, that he's so dreamy.
C'mon, let's check out the full top 10 list. I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU BEHIND.
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1. Battle: Los Angeles
$36 million / NEW |
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2. Rango
$23.1 million / $68.7 million |
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3. Red Riding Hood
$14.1 million / NEW |
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4. The Adjustment Bureau
$11.5 million / $38.5 million |
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5. Mars Needs Moms!
$6.8 million / NEW |
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6. Hall Pass
$5.1 million / $34.9 million |
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7. Beastly
$5 million / $17 million |
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8. Just Go With It
$4 million / $94 million |
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9. The King's Speech
$3.6 million / $129.1 million |
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10. Gnomeo and Juliet
$3.5 million / $89 million |
Dropped Out: Unknown, I Am Number Four, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
Source: Box Office Mojo
and pressing 3 is funny....
EDIT: Man, Mars Needs Moms is going to be a tremendous flop. Like one of the biggest of all time. If it has a multiplier like Astro Boy, it'll be lucky to hit $20 million domestic and maybe (by the work of a goddamn miracle) $80 million total worldwide. That covers, what, barely half of the film's budget (not including prints & advertising)? Even Speed Racer didn't flop this hard.
EDIT OF THE EDIT: Remember that thing I said about making a bit of money in international sales? It made a whopping $2 million from 14 different countries last weekend (about 1/4 of all international territories). That movie is not just fucked, it's buttfucked with a Tyrannosaurus dick.
Umm.... good luck Zemeckis.
If you throw in the first week of international box office and assume half of that for the second week, I think Rango's around 90 million total now. I think there's an okay chance it gets back to even by the time the next animated feature hits theaters (which is Hop first week of April and Rio 2 weeks later).