Your weekend box office top five:
1. No Strings Attached - $20.3 million, so now a lot of people should know what a "sex friend" is. (Hint: it's like a "fuck buddy," except, for the sake of No Strings Attached promotions, sanitized to the point of not being an actual term.)
2. The Green Hornet - $18.1 million. Don't be surprised when your kid asks you for an inventive Asian man-servant this Christmas.
3. The Dilemma - $9.7 million. This lackluster run will have no bearing on the inevitable creation of more Paul Blart films/Vince Vaughn marriage comedies.
4. The King's Speech - $9.2 million--a decent performance for a film that's part of the rather un-mainstream genre of melodramatic-historical-Porky Pig cartoon.
5. True Grit - $8 million, as the film draws close to topping Little Fockers' domestic gross. Never saw that coming, did you, Robert De Niro? Just like you never saw your daughter marrying a man like Ben Stiller, which would then lead to a conflict that would be stretched over three films.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Your weekend box office top five:
1. The Green Hornet - $34 million, even after refunds given to everyone who thought this was a Pineapple Express/Harold and Kumar pot crossover event.
2. The Dilemma - $17.4 million. A broad, mediocre, Vince Vaughn/Kevin James comedy doesn't open at number one? I just don't understand these times.
3. True Grit - $11.2 million. With so many people seeing this film, I'm starting to get a little worried friends will come to recognize the behavior I've been describing as "true grit" as actually me just being sort of an asshole.
4. The King's Speech - $9.1 million--not bad considering how much it looks like PBS.
5. Black Swan - $8.1 million. After last night's Golden Globe win for star Natalie Portman, I wouldn't be surprised if the film gets a boost in the coming week as audiences rush to see how tight her body looked before the pregnancy.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
In case the prior trailers for Faster and The Dilemma had too much Rock-shooting-dudes and gay slurs for you, respectively, here are sanitized versions of both trailers for you--perfect for if you want to go into the theater unaware, leaving you joyously surprised at all the Rock shootings and lazy gay jokes.
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At this point, Universal must have figured they were in the clear with last month's trailer for The Dilemma and its Vince Vaughn monologue about electric cars being gay. But in light of recent attention being given to gay bullying and suicide, Anderson Cooper and GLAAD have brought up the point that it could be considered an inappropriate thing to put in a trailer, forcing Universal to pull the spot and try to figure out something else as hilarious as the "gay" thing. Not that they're admitting fault, though: the studio maintains they showed the offending clip to GLAAD last month, and to "gay executives here and gays in our marketing department," and probably to all their black friends, too, to no objection (GLAAD denies this). Vince Vaugh's rep says he won't be making a statement on the controversy, while Kevin James is lying low, just praying and praying no one starts looking through his back catalog for gay jokes.
In The Dilemma, Kevin James finally gets his comeuppance for fictionally marrying unreasonably out-of-his-league women when his latest imaginary wife---Winona Ryder, if you can fucking believe it--starts cheating on him with G.I. Joe. Best friend Vince Vaughn--also, per usual, married to a far too attractive woman (Jennifer Connelly), if slightly less frustratingly so--learns of the affair, and is faced with THE DILEMMA: should he tell his best friend of his wife's continued infidelity with the douche from Step Up, or should he be a horrible human and just let it go, since Leah Remini probably had dudes in and our of their bedroom all day just to make it bearable to be married to the King of Queens, anyway? Oof.
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