Despite slipping a full 51% from its opening weekend, Sylvester Stallone's box office comeback, The Expendables, outgunned and outmuscled no less than five new releases this past weekend to hold on to the number one slot. As is usual for the mid-August dumping ground season, all of these five debuting flicks were dead on arrival, but fortunately for the studios, they were mostly cheaply-made fare. Really not much more to say about this.
This Friday, only two new releases are opening in wide release: the horror flick, The Last Exorcism and the action caper, Takers, starring Paul Walker.
Here are the box office actuals for the weekend of August 20-22, 2010:
|
Title |
Weekend Gross
(US+Canada)
|
change from
last week
|
Total Gross
|
1 |
The Expendables
(Lionsgate Films)
|
$16,968,032 |
-51.3% |
$65,357,117 |
2 |
Vampires Suck
(20th Century Fox)
|
$12,202,831 |
debut |
$12,202,831 |
3 |
Eat Pray Love
(Sony Pictures)
|
$12,111,162 |
-47.6% |
$47,214,078 |
4 |
Lottery Ticket
(Warner Bros.)
|
$10,652,297 |
debut |
$10,652,297 |
5 |
The Other Guys
(Sony Pictures)
|
$10,163,337 |
-41.6% |
$88,253,482 |
6 |
Piranha 3D
(Weinstein Company)
|
$10,106,872 |
debut |
$10,106,872 |
7 |
The Switch
(Miramax)
|
$8,436,713 |
debut |
$8,436,713 |
8 |
Nanny McPhee Returns
(Universal)
|
$8,407,685 |
debut |
$8,407,685 |
9 |
Inception
(Warner Bros.)
|
$7,838,179 |
-30.5% |
$262,031,594 |
10 |
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
(Universal)
|
$5,201,970 |
-51.0% |
$20,898,255 |
11 |
Despicable Me
(Universal)
|
$4,662,065 |
-33.1% |
$231,056,990 |
12 |
Dinner for Schmucks
(DreamWorks)
|
$3,520,805 |
-44.0% |
$65,800,919 |
|