Box Office Results 02/08/10

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By William Goss | Posted Under Box Office Round-Ups | Comments (18)

Avatar. Number two with $23.6 million. Yadda-yadda, blah-bl— wait, WHAT?!

That’s right. After eight weeks of box-office dominance, James Cameron’s pet project finally fell to the likes of Nicholas Sparks. The girls turned out in droves to see Dear John, whose $32.4 million opening unseated the behemoth blockbuster with some good old-fashioned 2-D tear-jerking. The last big Sparks adaptation, The Notebook, opened to just $13 million but went on to earn more than $80 million as ideal summer counter-programming back in 2004; whatever the word of mouth is on John, though (fans of the book haven’t been kind), it faces more immediate competition from the star-studded, laugh-jerking likes of Valentine’s Day next week.

The weekend’s other new release, the male-skewing From Paris with Love, opened to $8.1 million — a fraction of what the director’s Taken managed last year and John Travolta’s weakest wide tally since 2000’s Lucky Numbers. Last week’s male-skewing Edge of Darkness took fourth place with $7 million, the kid-friendly Tooth Fairy came in right behind it with $6.5 million, and the retard-luring When in Rome landed in sixth with $5.5 million. The Book of Eli stuck around in seventh with $4.8 million, Crazy Heart got a nice $4.8 million boost due to its sure-fire Oscar nods and strategic expansion thereafter, Legion took in another $3.4 million, and Sherlock Holmes closed out the top ten with $2.6 million.

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The girls turned out in droves to see Dear John...

The girls and Dustin. Dirty old man.

Posted by: admin at February 8, 2010 9:43 AM

Nice, Admin. Kick a man while he's down. Have you no mercy!

Posted by: Dustin Rowles at February 8, 2010 9:49 AM

All of the girls I saw this weekend were turned out in regular clothes, still too cold to be wearing droves.
Now I can't wait for the advent of spring, the appearance of droves and all the saucy ankles they reveal.

Posted by: clocker at February 8, 2010 9:50 AM

I have plenty of mercy, Dustin. It's my lack of empathy that prohibits me from dispensing it.

Posted by: admin at February 8, 2010 9:52 AM

Dear God.

Posted by: , at February 8, 2010 9:52 AM

It's so true. I went to see "A Single Man on Friday" and the cinema lobby looked like an Uggs convention. Teenage girls as far as the eye could see. It was like revenge of the clones: were you aware that all teenage girls dress identically and all have the same hairstyle these days? Scary stuff.

Posted by: PaddyDog at February 8, 2010 10:16 AM

I know I have trouble telling them apart from my car across the street from the high school.

Uggs, you say?

*tosses bag of "Twilight" DVDs to back seat, heads to shoe store*

Posted by: , at February 8, 2010 10:22 AM

PaddyDog, haven't teenage girls always dressed more or less identically and had the same hair? At least, the popular ones always looked rather exchangeable.

Posted by: Jen K at February 8, 2010 10:32 AM

Yes, popular teenage girls are exchangeable for valuable prizes! Prizes include but are not limited to:
-$25 Target giftcard
-a can of BBQ Pringles
-90-second blowjob in the utility closet (with teeth)

Posted by: Jim Doggie at February 8, 2010 10:46 AM

Fuck, I meant interchangeable. I think I'll just stay quiet.

Posted by: Jen K at February 8, 2010 11:05 AM

Jen K:

I can't agree. When we were teenagers, my friends and I had a rule that we would call each other before going out to make sure we weren't wearing the same stuff. We all had different hairstyles, and if one girl got a particular cut, there was an unwritten rule that no-one else could copy it. The worst possible thing would have been to show up somewhere dressed the same as somebody else. There were a few clones in the neighbourhood and we duly mocked them, but they were a few and nothing like the hordes you see today. Maybe it's a uniquely American phenomenon because I spent time as a teenager in Germany and France also and teenagers there all dressed with variety.

Posted by: PaddyDog at February 8, 2010 11:30 AM

I love BBQ Pringles.

Posted by: MM at February 8, 2010 11:31 AM

There was a time at school where gangs of blonde-highlighted girls with black Northface fleece jackety things would stretch as far as the eye could see. They were like the Buffalo of the great plains. Their skin was tanned and if you mentioned John Mayer you could use them for shelter.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at February 8, 2010 11:43 AM

I'm so sick of hearing about Avatar that I welcome its loss of the number one spot, even if it is to a sappy chick-flick I will never see, no matter how much I love ~~Lilly Kane~~ Amanda Seyfried.

(Although the contrast between the two is amusing. It's like when Dawn of the Dead knocked Passion of the Christ out of the top spot)

Posted by: Claire at February 8, 2010 12:00 PM

Dawn of the Dead knocked Passion of the Christ out of the top spot? Why do I not know this bit of information? Thanks Claire! I want to print that on a t-shirt and stand outside Mel Gibson's church/family home/sugartits emporium! That's the best news I've heard since the Jews took over Hollywood!

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