As everyone suspected, ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ dominated the box office for the second weekend in a row. Having raked in more than $261 million in less than 14 days, ‘Dark of the Moon’ is officially the highest grossing movie (domestically) of 2011. It’s a shame that box office numbers rarely reflect a film’s true quality.
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Of the two new nationwide releases this weekend, ‘Horrible Bosses<\/strong>‘ won out with more than $28 million, which is just less than $7 million away from hitting its budget. The film is on track to be the fourth highly profitable R-rated comedy of the summer. (The other three were ‘Bridesmaids’, ‘The Hangover Part II’ and ‘Bad Teacher’.) Like I said in my review<\/a>, there’s no reason why a comedy of this caliber shouldn’t be just as successful as \u2013 if not more than \u2013the others.<\/p>\n ‘Horrible Bosses’ follows three best friends, all equally disgruntled employees, who feel that they have to kill the horrible bosses that make their lives a living hell. Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day play the unhappy workers plotting “justifiable homicide” on Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston and Colin Farrell. If ‘Horrible Bosses’ could have used one correction, it would be to include more scenes of the outrageous bosses.<\/p>\n ‘Horrible Bosses’ producer Brett Ratner is already threatening to make sequels \u2013 the same thing he did to ruin his movie ‘Rush Hour’. Although nothing is official, Ratner says<\/a> that he’d love to make ‘Horrible Wives’ and\/or ‘Horrible Children’. Someone please stop him before he ruins another good thing. (See ‘X-Men: The Last Stand<\/a>‘.)<\/p>\n Opening in third place is ‘Zookeeper<\/strong>‘, a terrible supposed family flick about a loser zookeeper (Kevin James) who uses dating advice from talking animals to win back his gorgeous ex-girlfriend (Leslie Bibb). Because ‘Zookeeper’ features little typical family-friendly content (the few talking animals scenes, pee jokes and Kevin James falling down gags are hardly enough to turn this human-driven movie into a “family film”), my prediction<\/a> was that negative word of mouth would put ‘Zookeeper’ out of its misery \u2013 which happened a lot sooner than I expected.<\/p>\n On a budget of $80 million (What the hell did they spend the money on?! It sure wasn’t spent on a realistic-looking gorilla suit!), yet pulling in only $21 million in its opening weekend, ‘Paul Blart: Zookeeper’ is already looking like another 2011 family-friendly flop.<\/p>\n ‘Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest<\/strong>‘ earned a strong opening gross of $120,000 on only four screens across America. Its per-screen average was more than $30,000, nearly $20,000 more than that of ‘Transformers’.<\/p>\n ‘Midnight in Paris<\/strong>‘ finished the weekend in the number 12 spot with $2.7 million, bringing its total gross to $38.6 million. If ‘Midnight in Paris’ makes another $1.4 million \u2013 which it certainly will \u2013 it will pass ‘Hannah and Her Sisters’ to become Woody Allen’s all-time highest grossing film.<\/p>\n 1. ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ (Paramount\/DreamWorks) – $47,025,000<\/p>\n 2. ‘Horrible Bosses’ (Warner Bros.\/New Line) – $28,110,000<\/p>\n 3. ‘Zookeeper’ (Sony) – $21,000,000<\/p>\n 4. ‘Cars 2’ (Buena Vista) – $15,209,000<\/p>\n 5. ‘Bad Teacher’ (Sony) – $9,000,000<\/p>\n 6. ‘Larry Crowne’ (Universal) – $6,264,000<\/p>\n 7. ‘Super 8’ (Paramount) – $4,825,000<\/p>\n 8. ‘Monte Carlo’ (Fox) – $3,800,000<\/p>\n 9. ‘Green Lantern’ (Warner Bros.) – $3,125,000<\/p>\n 10. ‘Mr. Popper’s Penguins’ (Fox) – $2,850,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As everyone suspected, ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ dominated the box office for the second weekend in a row. 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