From ew, Proving that Sandra Bullock is having the best year of her career, the football drama The Blind Side rose to first place at the box office this weekend with $20.4 million, according to early estimates by Hollywood.com Box Office. After settling for second place behind The Twilight Saga: New Moon the past two weeks, Blind Side showed its legs by dropping only 49 percent and overtaking the vampire phenomenon. Blind Side, which received mediocre reviews but obtained a rare “A+” rating from CinemaScore moviegoers, has reached a cumulative gross of $129.3 million. It should have no trouble passing The Proposal’s $164 million total to become Bullock’s biggest hit.
New Moon slid 63 percent in its third weekend, draining $15.7 million for second place. That puts the teenage romantic fantasy at $255.6 million, with an even scarier worldwide total of $570.1 million. In third place with $9.7 million was the new drama Brothers, starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Natalie Portman. Two family film holdovers occupied fourth and fifth place: A Christmas Carol (No. 4 with $7.5 million) and Old Dogs (No. 5 with $6.9 million). Carol, which debuted in early November to a somewhat disappointing $30.1 million, has since displayed admirable box-office stamina. Unfortunately for the Jim Carrey movie, James Cameron’s Avatar will be stealing most of Carol’s high-priced IMAX and 3-D screens on Dec. 18.
5 comments:
That's a terrific couch gag.
Agreed.
A football drama movie starring Sandra Bullock? Hold me back.
And what the hell is this Twilight bullcrap I keep hearing about? Is it as irritating as I suspect it is?
I know, right?
Every time I'm at a party and somebody asks what I'm writing, and I say I'm finishing a teen supernatural thriller, they immediately go, "Vampires? Twilight?" And I have to restrain myself from screaming NO, IT'S NOT ABOUT FUCKING VAMPIRES at the top of my lungs.
There's an ad on Showtime for showings of Twilight with the main actress voice-overing what I assume is a passage from the book. It's dreadful.
I really tuned in to applaud that couch gag. I've never seen that one. JPX's tradition of Boba Fett pix for box office posts continues to reward us all.
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