Weekend Box-Office: September 10-12, 2010

WEEKEND BOX-OFFICE

Resident
Evil 4 kicks ashe…!!

Despite only 14%
of critics on Rotten Tomatoes giving RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE
a positive review (which includes our very own
JoBlo.com review, despite any quote from our site you may have
seen on any TV spots — we did NOT recommend this movie!),
it seems as though audiences were starving for some good ol’
fashioned 3D action, as the film opened with a monstrous $28M in
the first three days of its release.

It’s to note that this total
beats all previous RE openings as RESIDENT EVIL opened with $17M
(ended with $40M), RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE opened with $23M
(ended with $51M) and RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION opened with $24M
(ended with $51M). On Movie Fan Central, seven different schmoes have posted reviews of the film so far, with
an average rating of 5/10.

The rest of the top 10 wasn’t
too exciting, with last week’s #3 film, TAKERS, moving up a notch
to #2, with only $6M in receipts. The weekend after Labor Day is
known to be pretty crappy every year, and this year was no
different, as this weekend turned in the lowest grossing weekend
of the year. Not surprisingly, George Clooney’s THE AMERICAN
dropped 55% of its audience from last weekend, which is probably
not as bad as anticipated since audiences apparently despised
that film (the
average grade for all ticket buyers was a D-).

In fact, the biggest drop in
percentage from last weekend turned out to be for MACHETE, which
lost 63% of its audience from last week (which wasn’t that big to
begin with), but did cross the $20M mark, which is probably fine
with the studio since Robert Rodriguez’s picture only had a $20M
budget anyway. In the meantime, THE EXPENDABLES appears to be
close to crossing the $100M mark, while INCEPTION just spent its
9th week in the top 10, and is close to the $290M mark now. The
only film to get booted from the top 10 this week was NANNY MCPHEE
RETURNS ($26M).

Next weekend will bring about a
lot more changes as 4 new films hit theaters including the M.
Night Shyamalan-produced film DEVIL,
which was supposed to be directed by him originally, but
ultimately got directed by someone else (hmmmmmm),
a kid’s animated movie called ALPHA
AND OMEGA (great title…not), the latest teen "hip
flick" starring Emma Stone entitled EASY
A and my personal favorite of the week, the Ben Affleck-directed/written/starring
film called THE
TOWN. Which film do you think will be the #1 movie next
weekend? VOTE
NOW!!!

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