Weekend Box-Office: February 4-6, 2011

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

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Roommate tops a lame weekend

Super Bowl weekend is always
slower at the box-office, but this year took the cake as it
generated the smallest box-office total gross in 15 years. In
fact, when you compare this year’s numbers to last year, this
would make the 13th straight weekend that overall business was
down, in comparison. Granted, last year’s numbers may have been a
little skewed due to the ongoing success of AVATAR, but when
overall revenues are down 25% compared the previous year…it’s
worrying.

This weekend’s #1 hit wasn’t a
major surprise, considering that 2/3 of its audience were women
under the age of 21 (generally not the typical audience to watch
the Super Bowl), so kudos to Sony for the good timing of THE
ROOMMATE release. On the other hand, not sure about SANCTUM which
could only garner about $9M and a 2nd place finish. By the way,
this seems to have become standard for me to mention every other
weekend, but THE ROOMMATE was #1 despite horrible reviews
from the critics, with only 9%
considering it “worthy of seeing” on Rotten Tomatoes.
SANCTUM didn’t fare much better with only
29% recommending the film.

The only major move in the rest of the top 10 came
courtesy of last week’s #1 movie, THE RITE, which not surprisingly
dropped from 1st to 6th place in one week and lost about 62% of
its audience from last weekend, which is pretty standard for most
“genre flicks”. THE MECHANIC also dropped from 3rd to
7th place, although it only lost about 53% of its audience from
the same time last weekend. The two films to get booted from the
top 10 this weekend were THE FIGHTER ($82M) and YOGI F*CKIN’ BEAR
($95M). 

Next week sees the release of 4 new movies
including the one film I’ve been looking forward to more than any
other movie since FIGHT CLUB was released and that, of course is JUSTIN
BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER!! Sure to be a classic in the same
vein. Adam Sandler also continues to be “going through the
motions” of late with his latest film entitled JUST
GO WITH IT (how about I don’t?), while something called THE
EAGLE is also being released, starring pretty-boy Channing
Tatum. The kids will also be getting another animated flick next
week, this one focusing on garden gnomes and romance entitled GNOMEO
& JULIET. That said, since it’s Superbowl Weekend, we
figured that it might be okay to ask a non-movie related question
in our poll this week and that is: who will win the Superbowl
tonight?
VOTE
NOW!!! PS: Since it’s a slow weekend, check out our two
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