August 20th – 22nd Weekend Box Office: The Expendables Uses Sleeper on Top; Vampires Suck, Piranha 3D Left to Die

Second weekend now, Sly Stallone’s The Expendables continues its reign at #1. All right, “reign” is a strong word. The popcorn-action flick still fell 52.6% as it took another giddy $16.5 million from moviegoers’ pockets. Its ten-day total is up to $64.9 million, making it one of the more prominent entries of the summer. Keep an eye out for this one. I predict a happy September.

At #2 is a movie I won’t delve too far into, Vampires Suck, a “spoof” of the Twilight franchise. With $12.2 million this weekend and $18.6 million since its release last Wednesday, this is a few notches above the disastrous failure of 2008’s Disaster Movie. Eat Pray Love dropped 48.1% at #3 with $12 million, doing as well with women as Expendables is with the opposite sex. Critical miss Lottery Ticket began with $11.1 million at #4.

Adam McKay’s The Other Guys brings us out in fifth place with another $10.1 million and a total of $88.2 million in three weeks, passing Anchorman as McKay’s third-highest-grossing flick as writer, director or producer.

Out of the top five-

  • Alexandre Aja’s Piranha 3D failed to find much of an audience thanks to a heavy-R MPAA rating, debuting at #6 with $10 million.
  • It doesn’t too much matter Nanny McPhee Returns didn’t strike a chord with American audiences – in seventh place with $8.3 million – the British flick has already rung up $62.6 million with foreign crowds.
  • Jennifer Aniston saw one the worst openings of her career for a movie on more than 2,000 screens with The Switch, which opened at #8 with $8.1 million.
  • Much-loved doc The Tillman Story began with $52,400 at four sites, a per-screen average of more than $13,000.
  • Nazi propaganda documentary A Film Unfinished also opened strong with $37,500 at four sites.

Here are the box office results according to studio estimates Sunday-

  1. 1. The Expendables…$16.5 million
  2. 2. Vampires Suck…$12.2 million
  3. 3. Eat Pray Love…$12 million
  4. 4. Lottery Ticket…$11.1 million
  5. 5. The Other Guys…$10.1 million
  6. 6. Piranha 3D…$10 million
  7. 7. Nanny McPhee Returns…$8.3 million
  8. 8. The Switch…$8.1 million
  9. 9. Inception…$7.7 million
  10. 10. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World…$5 million


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