As expected, family-friendly ‘Cars 2’ raced to first place this weekend against crude adult comedy ‘Bad Teacher’. The surprising part? Both outgrossed their weekend predictions by more than $10 million.
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With terrible tracking and horrible reviews<\/a>, ‘Cars 2<\/strong>‘ was only expected to draw between $50 to $55 million this weekend. It seems that the studio underestimated the appeal of the $200 million animated giant that places talking cars in a formulaic spy plot. The film went on to gross $68 million.<\/p>\n Although Disney can definitely mark this weekend up as a win, the percentage of 3D ticket sales still continues to drop. Only 40% of the audiences that went to see ‘Cars 2’ did so in 3D \u2013 the lowest 3D percentage yet.<\/p>\n Sony’s raunch-com ‘Bad Teacher<\/strong>‘ also defied studio predictions by pulling in $31 million. At best, ‘Bad Teacher’ was estimated to only bring in $20 million. Despite only receiving a 46% rating on Rotten Tomatoes<\/em><\/a> (12% above the 34% rating ‘Cars 2’ received), ‘Bad Teacher’ is the third successful R-rated comedy to open in the last two months, after ‘Bridesmaids’ and ‘The Hangover Part II’.<\/p>\n On only 24 screens, ‘Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop<\/strong>‘ sure didn’t impress with its weekend gross of $105,000. Perhaps due to the fact that anyone with basic cable can get a Conan fix nightly, the documentary averaged a measly $4,375 per screen. Like I said in my review<\/a>, all Conan fans need to know is that watching ‘Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop’ will only make you love him more.<\/p>\n Although it dropped 65.5% percent and grossed only $18 million in its second weekend, Warner Bros. announced<\/a> that it has green-lit a ‘Green Lantern<\/strong>‘ sequel. The studio believes that the franchise still has high potential. There’s no word about a script, story, director, or expected release date yet.<\/p>\n