Weekend Box-Office: October 1-3, 2010

WEEKEND BOX-OFFICE

Fincher
does it again… 

Three new films were released
this past weekend but only 1 of them managed to make a significant
dent into the top 10 and that was David Fincher’s latest piece of
cinematic awesomeness entitled THE SOCIAL NETWORK, which despite
being known as "the Facebook movie" to a lot of people,
has been garnering nothing but extremely positive reviews from
critics and audiences alike. The film managed a strong #1 opening
with $23M and is expected to break the $100M mark over the coming
weeks. So far, 12 of you have posted your
reviews on MOVIE FAN CENTRAL with an average rating of 8.9/10.

The other two new releases
didn’t fare so well with Renee Zelwegger’s CASE 39 opening in 7th
spot with about $5.4M and Matt Reeves’ questionable remake of LET
THE RIGHT ON IN entitled LET ME IN opening in 8th place with about
$5.3M. I say "questionable" because despite the film’s
many positive reviews (MFC
includes 6 reviews averaging 8/10), many still question why
Americans would feel the need to remake a recent foreign film
which on its own, was already extremely powerful and effective.
You’re really running out of creativity these days, aren’t you
Hollywood?

The biggest drop in the top 10
came courtesy of last week’s #1 movie, WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER
SLEEPS (PAL), which lost 47% of its audience from last weekend,
and ended up in 3rd place this week. The "owl movie"
managed the smallest drop-off in its numbers, losing only 32% of
its audience from last weekend and remaining solidly in 2nd place.
Speaking of solid numbers, Ben Affleck’s THE TOWN is officially a
massive hit already, closing in on the $65M mark, despite a $37M
budget. You go, BenniJen!

For those scoring at home,
INCEPTION finally dropped out of the top 10, after its
original release on July 16, 2010. The film remained in the top 10
for almost 3 full months (11 weeks to be exact), has made $288M
domestically so far and another $486M in foreign markets, with a
grand total of $774M worldwide. Wow. That places the film in 33rd
place on the all-time
worldwide gross list, right behind friggin’ STAR WARS!

Director Christopher Nolan’s
previous flick, THE DARK KNIGHT, is 7th on that list. Somehow, f*ckin’
ALICE IN WONDERLAND is 6th on that list, btw. A bigger wow. By the
way, if you look at films that aren’t part of a
"franchise" on that list, INCEPTION is the 8th
biggest non-franchise movie of all-time behind AVATAR,
TITANIC, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, FINDING NEMO, INDEPENDENCE DAY, E.T.
and THE LION KING. The other film to get
drop-kicked from the top 10 this past week was RESIDENT EVIL:
AFTERLIFE with about $57M, which officially makes it the highest
grossing RESIDENT EVIL film in that franchise.

Next week sees the release of a
few boring looking movies including the latest attempt at trying
to force Katherine Heigl down our throats via a romantic comedy
vehicle, this one entitled LIFE
AS WE KNOW IT, Wes Craven’s attempt at scoring another horror
hit starring a bunch of no-names entitled MY
SOUL TO TAKE and the latest Walt Disney "feel good
based-on-a-true-story featuring a person/animal overcoming all
odds" movie entitled SECRETARIAT
(and for fans of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s SECRETARY,
this is not the sequel, prequel or remake). A ton of
limited releases are also opening in "select cities"
including I
SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, IT’S
KIND OF A FUNNY STORY, NOWHERE
BOY, TAMARA
DREWE and STONE.
Since next week’s line-up looks a little lame, this week’s poll
question revolves around the opposite of lame: What is your
favorite David Fincher movie? VOTE
NOW!!!

ACCESS
BOX-OFFICE ARCHIVES HERE

Win JoBlo Swag

Love movies? Love free stuff? Drop your email to join our newsletter, and you could walk away with your very own JoBlo Bobblehead or Popcorn Bucket.

No spam, just pure movie magic. Unsubscribe anytime.