Weekend Box-Office: September 17-19, 2010

WEEKEND BOX-OFFICE

Cheer
up fellas, your movie is #1!!!

JoBlo.com readers hit this one
out of the park last weekend, when we asked, "What
film do you think will be #1 next weekend?". You chose
THE TOWN as the overwhelming #1 film and you were right as the
movie opened huge with close to $24M in its first three days of
release alone. The Emma Stone-starring EASY A didn’t do too
shabbily either in second place with about $18M, while the M.
Night Shyamalan-produced DEVIL opened with a decent $13M in third
place. The latter movie might’ve received more positive buzz had
the studio previewed it for critics, as many seem to be enjoying
it including our
very own Arrow, Jim Law and several schmoes on the MFC (the avg.
score of 7.6/10 from 5 reviews so far).

The greater news for all three
movies is that they all had low budgets, so it appears as though
they’ll all be considered "successful" pretty soon.
Affleck’s film only cost $37M, while EASY A cost less than $10M! I
can’t imagine that DEVIL cost a lot more than that. The only new
movie of the weekend that didn’t impress many was the kid’s flick
ALPHA AND OMEGA which sounds a lot more like a scientific
documentary than a fun children’s movie. It opened in 5th place
with a disappointing $9M, despite being in 3D.

Last week’s massive #1 movie,
RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE, dropped like a hooker on New Year’s eve,
losing 63% of its audience from last weekend, and positioning
itself in 4th place among the new releases. And with 4 new
releases slipping their way into the top 10, four other movies had
to get drop-kicked out of the top 10 including EAT PRAY LOVE
($78M), GOING THE DISTANCE ($17M), THE LAST EXORCISM ($40M) and
THE EXPENDABLES, which finally managed to break the $100M mark,
with $101M in domestic grosses since its release six weeks ago.

Next weekend sees the release
of a ton of movies including 4 wide releases like Zack Snyder’s LEGEND
OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE (also known as YAWN),
the sequel to WALL STREET entitled WALL
STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS starring Michael Douglas, Shia
LaBeouf and his real-life girlfriend Carey Mulligan, the teen
comedy THE
VIRGINITY HIT which is being backed by Adam McKay and Will
Ferrell and something called YOU
AGAIN, which co-stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Sigourney Weaver,
two ladies who starred in classic films in their earlier days (HALLOWEEN, ALIEN).

There are also a bunch of
limited releases opening up including Woodrow Allen’s latest
called YOU
WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER (as opposed to the film about
my life called YOU MIGHT MEET A SHORT ETHNIC DUDE), the film
starring only one person in Ryan Reynolds entitled BURIED,
WAITING
FOR SUPERMAN which is not about the sequel to SUPERMAN
RETURNS, as well as Gaspar Noe’s ENTER
THE VOID and James Franco’s latest entitled HOWL.
Phew! That’s a lot of movies, yo! Now if you could choose only one
movie to see next weekend, which one would you see? VOTE
NOW!!!

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