Box Office Results 02/28/10

Still Crazy

By William Goss | Posted Under Box Office Round-Ups | Comments (15)

Well, my fears that the eagerly dismissive reactions to Shutter Island last weekend would dampen its numbers this weekend would appear to be unfounded, as $22.2 million worth of moviegoers turned out to see what everyone else was talking about or to see what they themselves had missed on first viewing. With $75 million in the bank to date, it seems that the move out from under October’s Saw sequels and Paramount’s own Paranormal juggernaut was indeed a wise one.

Of the weekend’s new and equally horrifying releases, Kevin Smith’s cop out, Cop Out, ended up in second place with $18.6 million (the best opening a Smith film has seen, although on par with Bruce Willis’ weaker outings), while the decent remake of a dated Romero, The Crazies, took third with $16.5 million (and it stars Timothy Olyphant, who was the bad guy in that last Die Hard movie, which starred both Bruce Willis AND Kevin Smith! This is some DaVinci Code shit right here!). (Pajiba’s The Crazies review will be up tomorrow.)

In its last weekend of total 3-D screen domination pre-Alice in Wonderland, Avatar landed in fourth place with another $14 million. Percy Jackson was fifth with $9.8 million, Valentine’s Day took sixth with $9.5 million, Dear John ended up seventh with $5 million, The Wolfman fell to eighth with $4.1 million, Tooth Fairy stuck around in ninth with $3.5 million, and in tenth was Crazy Heart with $2.5 million.

The highest per-theater averages went to Roman Polanksi’s reportedly solid The Ghost Writer (expected to expand even wider next weekend) and the nine-screen release of the uber-acclaimed A Prophet. That’s one about a guy who’s jailed up, and no, his name is NOT Roman Polanski.

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It amazes me how Avatar is supposedly still generating box-office. The whole thing is a big scam, like the "moon landing."

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at February 28, 2010 3:03 PM

Nerds need something to do 'till Iron Man 2 I guess.

Posted by: MikeG at February 28, 2010 3:45 PM

I'm not sure what you mean, BSlim. The moon landing was in 3-D.

Posted by: greg at February 28, 2010 3:46 PM

*sees header pic, covers eyes, scrolls past post, guesses $28.4 million, reads post ...*

*whew, only $18.6 ... $18.6!!!???!!! Weeps copious tears*

Posted by: , at February 28, 2010 6:31 PM

the decent remake of a dated Romero, The Crazies

**MINOR SPOILERS**

Bwahahahaha! Saw it this weekend, totally nuked the fridge (or semi-truck, as the case may be). Fun though. Would be great for a drunken movie night, but definitely not worth the price of admission.

Posted by: the_wakeful at February 28, 2010 11:01 PM

I'd have to agree. The Crazies was a cool little flick but you can wait for DVD.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at February 28, 2010 11:56 PM

Shutter Island was good, but not great. I'm not sure how well it will stand up on repeat viewings but it was still a solid movie. There's a few scenes that I'm still trying to figure out where they fit in. It wasn't near as scary as I thought it would be. The music was way too melodramatic, especially at the beginning. Was much more of a bombastic Hitchcock kind of score than was necessary. Still it was a shit ton better than Cape Fear.

Posted by: TylerDFC at March 1, 2010 6:45 AM

you can complain all you like, but avatar struck a chord with people. hype and three-d would have seen it thru two weekend big grosses, ten weeks later, it is because people really liked it. that doesnt mean it was a good film, though i liked it depsite its flaws, but i get tired of nerdy wankers trying so hard to dismiss is when it, obviously, very obviously spoke to the people--to the tune of 2 and a half billion dollars. it took archetypes/sterotypes and spuna mythical tale that spoke loudly to the audience. you can hat cameron all you want if he is an asshole, but he delivered.

Posted by: idleprimate at March 1, 2010 9:50 AM

You do realize Slim's a loathesome fucking troll, ignore him, and he'll die, like a canker sore.

Posted by: George at March 1, 2010 1:50 PM

That's a dirty lie and you know it. Slim will just lie in wait for Star Trek II.

Posted by: vryce at March 1, 2010 3:27 PM

You do realize Slim's a loathesome fucking troll, ignore him, and he'll die, like a canker sore.

Posted by: George at March 1, 2010 1:50 PM

Ha hahha ha hahaha ha. Oh THAT's rich. Bslim is like the Habanero garnish on this place. He may Buuuurn, but man it wouldnt be the same without him.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at March 1, 2010 4:41 PM

vryce speaks the truth. I'm pretty sure BSlim is incapable of death. Also, canker sores don't really die, they just get better. Or turn into mucous cysts. Do an internet search of that one at your own peril of being grossed out.

Posted by: tamatha at March 1, 2010 4:48 PM

Being a lurker for a significant amount of time does lead to a certain...wisdom. Yeah, we'll go with that. Wisdom.

Posted by: vryce at March 1, 2010 5:02 PM

Agreed, very well written and can't wait for the second half.

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Posted by: Grant at December 12, 2010 3:51 AM

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