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Weekend Box Office: Familiarity Breeds Second-Worst Weekend of the Year

September 17, 2012 / movie, news, weekend box office

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Shell out to watch Milla Jovovich shoot handguns for the fifth time, or pay to watch Finding Nemo for like the fifth time? The answer:

1. Resident Evil: Retribution - $21.1 million, with the lowest attendance yet for the series.

2. Finding Nemo - $17.5 million. Worth noting: The Lion King's 3D re-release arrived on the same weekend last year and opened at over $30 million. But, I mean, that's The Lion King. Watching a mandrill shove a newborn lion cub out of the screen is basically the only thing 3D makes sense for.

3. The Possession - $5.8 million, holding on to the third spot thanks to the spooky movie boost that comes when everyone suddenly realizes, shit, Halloween is coming up here. What are we going to be, you guys?

4. Lawless - $4.2 million in its third weekend. It's looking increasingly unlikely this film will match the box office Shia LaBeouf pulled in with Holes.

5. ParaNorman - $3 million, holding on to its spot from last week as the aging Expendables 2 quickly collapses under the weight of its own muscle.

Honorable Mentions: The Master and Arbitrage - Though neither breached the top ten, in limited release, the Paul Thomas Anderson film set a new per-theater average record of $146k, while the Richard Gere dramatic thriller set a distant but second-place weekend average of $10k per theater despite having the least catchy name possible.

Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]

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