It was a crowded weekend at the Hollywood box office for the second weekend in a row, as three major openers came up against a surprisingly resilient animated feature from the week before. The top film of the weekend was the Liam Neeson thriller “Unknown”. (Concept: “I got into a car wreck and when I woke up someone had replaced me and no one knows who I am”)
The surprise hold-over was the strong performance of Disney’s “Gnomeo and Juliet”. Considering that this project was basically a dump until the last month, it is surprising that this cartoon is blazing past “The Princess and the Frog” and “Meet the Robinsons”.
There will be a flood of animated films over the next two months (Rango, Mars Needs Moms, Rio, Hop, Hoodwinked Too, etc), so it will be interesting to see if the success of “Gnomeo and Juliet” is purely due to the lack of family fare at the moment and if these far-more high-profile cartoons can actually match the impressive performance of this lesser animated feature.
The surprise hold-over was the strong performance of Disney’s “Gnomeo and Juliet”. Considering that this project was basically a dump until the last month, it is surprising that this cartoon is blazing past “The Princess and the Frog” and “Meet the Robinsons”.There will be a flood of animated films over the next two months (Rango, Mars Needs Moms, Rio, Hop, Hoodwinked Too, etc), so it will be interesting to see if the success of “Gnomeo and Juliet” is purely due to the lack of family fare at the moment and if these far-more high-profile cartoons can actually match the impressive performance of this lesser animated feature.
Coming in at number two for the three-day weekend was the next big opener, “ I Am Number Four” (trailer/review). A Sci-fi film, that initially did not do well at the box-office, but seems to be holding steady at the moment. The third major opener was “Big Mammas: Like Father Like Son”. The film opened with $17 million over three-days. For a $32 million comedy, this is certainly a win. In Oscar-bait news, “The King’s Speech” crossed $100 million this weekend, setting the stage for a big win next Sunday. Catch more of the latest Hollywood news... only on http://fridaymoviez.com/hollywood/index.php
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