Nov 23 2009Weekend Box Office: 'High School Dracula 2: Vladuation Day' Wins It
This past weekend, teen and pre-teen girls ran to get into New Moon quicker than they run to get into a codependent, embarrassingly long-term relationship with some dude from high school, and the film opened to the third highest weekend of all time. Here's how it all panned out:
1. The Twilight Saga: New Moon - Fucking hell, $140.7 million? Stephanie Meyers can finally afford to get the experimental surgery to fuse solid gold sparkles into her skin. A few thousand times.
2. The Blind Side - $34.5 million. Pretty decent considering its tough vampire competition, and how it looked like such an utter POS.
3. 2012 - $26.5 million. They Mayans were right. They always predicted, "2012 will make more than it deserves given its poor critical reception, but what more would you expect from the brutish hoi polloi?"
4. Planet 51 - Ouch, $12.6 million. You have to figure paying someone to come up with the tagline "there's no space like home" probably cost that much. Unfortunately.
5. A Christmas Carol - $12.2 million, but that could easily get a boost in upcoming weeks, as we get closer to the season when audiences want to see a terrifying old man effigy move around in creepily unnatural ways while Jim Carrey shouts.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Reader Comments
1. fdsy - November 23, 2009 11:46 AM
I am not a fan of New Moon. As a werewolf fan, I say that it's an embarassing installment into the lore.
Also: I think you meant "The Mayans were right"
unless of course you wanted us to read it with a Jamacan accent, like:
"They Mayans whur righ brudder, dey be always purdicted '2012 will always be maki' mor dan it deurvs giving dey poor critical recep-saun, but what did you be expecton from dat brutish hoi pa-loy... man?'"
which I assumed you did.
2. Aerialgreen - November 23, 2009 11:52 AM
I gotta work on my vampire image, it seems a guaranteed to make you score this week (at least), let's see: no sunlight, no showers, Jimmy Neutron haircut/wig, and pretending to have the angst mood of a tween... yeah that'll do, panty land here I come!
3. Aerialgreen - November 23, 2009 11:56 AM
Seems Shark-boy has it made, to sad Lava-girl didn't made the cut... well, there's always the next 3+ sequels for her agent to sell her into this wreck... you know this is happening, ditto for all "young hollywood", including senior citizen Lindsay Lohan.
4. Matt - November 23, 2009 12:06 PM
Unfortunately 20 of my hard earned dollars went to that 140 million...it was date night :( lol. Im not gonna lie....the movie itself....wasnt BAD....it by far wasnt something "I" would consider good but I've seen much much worse. The actual theater experience was terrible....the seats were small (and NO...Im not a big guy), and everytime a male character took his shirt off just about every girl in the theater (except for my gf thank god) was like "whoooooooooooooooo!" Fuck! Oh well....payin for pussy :P
5. Movies - November 23, 2009 12:58 PM
holy crap, give me some of that moola!
6. Jrdn - November 23, 2009 2:02 PM
ahaha @1 yesssss
and seriously that piece of shit was playing on like 7 screens.
every fucking half hour.
i hate that piece of shit franchise.
i had to watch the blind side cause the men who stare at goats wasn't at my theater anymore.
well it was good. but still I WANTED TO WANT SOME CLOONEY ACTION!
7. jaime - November 23, 2009 2:21 PM
HA! nice fake title for twilight! seriously.
8. frank - November 23, 2009 8:42 PM
Holy Jesus was Christmas Carol bad. The effects took two steps backward from Beowulf and plunged so deep into the Uncanny Valley it might have fallen out the bottom. AND WHAT WAS UP WITH TINY SCROOGE OH MY GOD. Such a miserable film experience.
9. the heat - November 24, 2009 12:59 PM
I know you already knew this, but I just want to remind you that "hoi" is already the Greek definite article.