Weekend Box-Office: March 11-13, 2011

Wasn’t
much of a battle after all…

Despite three “big
releases” opening this weekend, it was BATTLE: LOS ANGELES
that easily took the top spot even though veteran film
critics like Roger Ebert said stuff like “Young
men: If you attend this crap with friends who admire it, tactfully
inform them they are idiots.” about the film. Wow, really
Roger? Name-calling? I thought you’d be a little past that at your
age. Our very own genre critic, the
Arrow, loved the shit out of it, for what it was! For
now, the film’s trailers certainly seem to have made enough of an
impression to get the “young kids” out in droves, but
the film’s real “success” will be confirmed over the
next few weeks in regards to its staying power (or lack thereof).
The film apparently cost about $70M to produce.

Last week’s #1 movie, RANGO,
managed to hang around the top spots with a #2 showing of $23M
this time around, which ain’t too bad for a film in its second
week. The Johnny Depp-starring movie has now made close to $70M
over the first 10 days of its release. The other new release of
the weekend which fared “okay” was RED RIDING HOOD,
which made $14M in its debut, while MARS FROM MARS tanked pretty
major with only $7M in its first week of release, despite the fact
that it apparently cost (prepare yourself for this…) $150M!!!!
If someone can explain why this basic looking animated flick cost so
much to make…mention it below.

Despite losing 45% of its
audience from last weekend, THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU managed to grab
the #4 spot this weekend, while 2010’s “Best Picture of the
Year”, THE KING’S SPEECH, still hung around in 9th place with
a total of $129M after 16 weeks of release (uuuuuhmmm, can we get
this film out of the top 10 already?) We get it! The three films
to get knocked from the top 10 this week include UNKNOWN ($58M), I
AM NUMBER FOUR ($50M) and JUSTIN BIEBER: ALWAYS SAY NEVER
TO THIS MOVIE ($71M).

Next week sees the release of 3
new “big releases” including fanboy faves Nick Frost and
Simon Pegg re-joining forces in the sci-fi comedy PAUL
(sans Edgar Wright, it’s to note), Matthew McConaughey going back
to his A TIME TO KILL roots with THE
LINCOLN LAWYER and the director of 2006’s THE ILLUSIONIST
returning to the big screen in a film entitled LIMITLESS
starring Bradley Cooper and Bobby DeNiro. What movie do you think
will be atop the charts next weekend? VOTE
HERE!!!