Aside from that 3D ‘Menace’, every movie in the box office Top 5 this weekend blasted past expectations \u2013 one of them by more than $18 million!
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Sadly, the #1 movie of the weekend was ‘The Vow<\/strong>‘. Predicted to win with $32.3 million, it actually earned a surprising $41.7 million, which marks the best opening ever for Sony\/Screen Gems. What’s not surprising is the fact that 72% of audiences were woman. Guys seem to like Rachel McAdams, but not enough to drudge through ‘The Vow’. Yet this weekend has demonstrated the power Channing Tatum has with the ladies.<\/p>\n The Denzel Washington\/Ryan Reynolds vehicle ‘Safe House<\/strong>‘ really defied expectations this week. Only expected to make $21.5 million, the R-rated spy thriller pulled in a startling $39.3 million, which makes it Washington’s second-best opening behind ‘American Gangster’.<\/p>\n I’m happy to report that more people went to the new turd ‘Journey 2: The Mysterious Island<\/strong>‘ than the 3D re-release of old turd ‘Star Wars: Episode I \u2013 The Phantom Menace<\/strong>‘. Like the top two films, ‘Journey 2’ blew its expectations out of the water. Predicted to only earn $13.8 million, it grossed $27.5 million. That’s over $6 million more than ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’ premiered with. <\/p>\n Meanwhile, ‘The Phantom Menace’ only earned $23 million of its expected $24.2 million. Even so, the new addition bumped the film up from seventh to fifth place on the list of all-time totals. Personally, I don’t think that re-releases should be added to box office totals. Mr. Lucas plays dirty.<\/p>\n Rounding out the Top 5 was the week-old ‘Chronicle<\/strong>‘. Only dipping 44% in attendance from last week, ‘Chronicle’ has now grossed over $40 million, which isn’t bad considering that it was made for only $15 million.<\/p>\n Three indie openers also earned big money. ‘Rampart<\/strong>‘ grossed $65,100 on only five screens; that’s $13,020 per screen. ‘In Darkness<\/strong>‘ earned $27,600 on only 3 screens, a $9,200 per-screen average. And ‘Chico & Rita<\/strong>‘ made $21,700 on just one screen. You can figure out that per-screen average on your own.<\/p>\n 1. ‘The Vow’ (Screen Gems) – $41,700,000<\/p>\n 2. ‘Safe House’ (Universal) – $39,300,000<\/p>\n 3. ‘Journey 2: The Mysterious Island’ – $27,550,000<\/p>\n 4. ‘Star Wars: Episode I \u2013 The Phantom Menace (in 3D)’ (Fox) – $23,000,000<\/p>\n 5. ‘Chronicle’ (Fox) – $12,300,000<\/p>\n 6. ‘The Woman in Black’ (CBS) – $10,300,000<\/p>\n 7. ‘The Grey’ (ORF) – $5,080,000<\/p>\n 8. ‘Big Miracle’ (Universal) – $3,900,000<\/p>\n 9. ‘The Descendants’ (Fox Searchlight) – $3,500,000<\/p>\n 10. ‘Underworld Awakening’ (Screen Gems) – $2,500,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aside from that 3D ‘Menace’, every movie in the box office Top 5 this weekend blasted past expectations \u2013 one of them by more than $18 million!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":30029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,743],"tags":[198,178,2013,3975,1631,4518,1630,4260,1351,4261,264,4597],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29568"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30032,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29568\/revisions\/30032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Top 10:<\/h5>\n