You know it’s a weak box office weekend when the top movie is a kids film starring The Rock that only grosses $25M. That’s where we’re at this March folks and, frankly, we don’t blame you for blowing the theater off this weekend. When it comes down to “Return to Witch Mountain” or full blue frontal in “The Watchmen” we’ll stay home and watch SNL with not-so-special guest host Tracey Morgan too. Apparently even the geeks stayed home – “The Watchmen” took a huge dive down 67% in ticket sales and making only $18.1M this weekend, but holds steady at #2 pathetically enough.
It also looks like that water cooler explicit rape scene in “The Last House on the Left” didn’t get too many people out of their houses this weekend either. The film pulled in only $14.7M for the weekend, landing it at #3. Perhaps those of us in the middle of an economic depression aren’t to stoked at the idea of watching a very young looking girl get molested and killed after all. Against all odds, obviously.
The rest of the rather bleak weekend box office saw “Taken” continue raking in the dough, with $6.7M at #5, “Slumdog Millionaire” still riding the Oscar bump with $5M at #6, “Coraline” continuing to resonate with the goth animation set for $3.3M at #9 and a bunch of other crap movies we’d never be caught dead at filling in the rest of the weekend slots.
The full list:
1. “Race to Witch Mountain,” $25 million
2. “Watchmen,” $18.1 million
3. “The Last House on the Left,” $14.7 million
4. “Taken,” $6.7 million
5. “Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail,” $5.1 million
6. “Slumdog Millionaire,” $5 million
7. “Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” $3.1 million
8. “He’s Just Not That Into You,” $2.9 million
9. “Coraline,” $3.3 million
10. “Miss March,” $2.4 million