Nov 16 2009Weekend Box Office Goes Just As Mayans Foretold
Your weekend box office results. Save a tree; don't print them out this week.
1. 2012 - $65 million, a huge outpouring of support for the film's once hugely popular but now aging star, Flooding and Explosions.
2. A Christmas Carol - $22.3 million, another mediocre weekend that gives hope we might not have to endure A Christmas Carol 2: Scrooge the Pooch.
3. The Men Who Stare at Goats - $6.2 million. Don't believe any of this film's B.S. staring-at-goats-could-kill-them theories. I've stared at so many animals and people wishing they would die, and it never pays off.
4. Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire - $6.1 million--and that's on only 174 screens--giving hope to all those other little indie dramas that also have the endorsements of two of America's most influential women (Oprah and Madea).
5. This Is It - $5.1 million. Weren't we promised this would be out of theaters by now, finally allowing Michael Jackson's soul to escape the limbo of consumerism?
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Reader Comments
1. Frank - November 17, 2009 1:44 AM
Scrooge the Pooch, in which Scrooge (Jim Carrey) has died and is reincarnated as a dog so he can save the now grown up Tiny Tim (Gary Oldman) from a curmudgeonly industrialist (Tom Hanks) with the help of his friends Carlyle the rat (David Spade) and Tubs the Christmas turkey (Jack Black), and maybe teach everyone a little something about the true meaning of Christmas. It will make $50 million in its opening weekend.
2. Guy - November 19, 2009 6:25 AM
I found 2012 a little too unrealistic, it had a black US president.