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This week’s box office: a good standout and a bad one
Looking at this news story about the box office for this weekend, a couple of things struck me:
The number one film, again, was Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail, which held off the Jonas Bros.’ comin’ atcha 3D movie. But it was this quote from box office analyst Paul Dergarabedian that really got my goat:
We’ve been talking a lot lately about people going to the movies to escape,” said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box office tracker Media By Numbers. “Usually, people want to escape from jail, but people keep wanting to escape to jail with Madea.”
(Insert sound of Eric vomiting here)
I don’t know who’s more to blame: Dergarabedian for saying something so utterly ham-handed, or writer Derrik J. Lang, who saw fit to actually use it. Ptooey.
One other movie was conspicuous by its absence: Check out the top 10:
“Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail,” $16.5 million.
“Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience,” $12.7 million.
“Slumdog Millionaire,” $12.1 million.
“Taken,” $9.9 million.
“He’s Just Not That Into You,” $5.8 million.
“Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” $5.6 million.
“Coraline,” $5.2 million.
“Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li,” $4.6 million.
“Confessions of a Shopaholic,” $4.4 million.
“Fired Up,” 3.8 million.
Notice anything missing? I can’t help but cackle that the Friday the 13th remake is out of the top 10 after only three weekends.
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By SRCputt
March 1, 2009 4:04 PM | Link to this
The big box office news this week is that Slumdog Millionaire and Taken both broke 100 million in total box office this week. Meanwhile, Friday the 13th just cleared 60 mil and won’t get to 70. That’s still 60+ mil more than it deserved.