Participant Media Can Boast Contagion #1 & The Assistance #2 Warrior #3 In Less Runs Bucky Larson Tanks Kevin Hart Still #10?

SATURDAY PM: This really is shaping as 2011′slousiest box office weekend in The United States with only $70M total grosses. Yes, a whole lot worse thanHurricane Irene’s. Lots of surprises within this weekend’s amounts along with a larger analysis is originating. But no real surprise which new United States movie isn't any. 1: 1.With $8M Friday and +20% for $9.7M Saturday, it’sa $24M weekend for Warner Bros’ Contagion playing in 42% more theaters — 3,222 — than its nearest newcomer.This Participant Media-backed disease movie appeared as if yet anotheryikes-you’re-all-going-to-die formula pic. However I’m surprised it didn’t generate more appeal what withOscar-winning Steven Soderbergh pointing 6Academy Awardwinners or nominees: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Gwyneth Paltrow,Jude Law, and Laurence Fishburne.(Visitors areurging me to incorporate Oscar-honored John Hawke and Elliott Gould too…) That added oomph tocredited script author Scott Burns’ material. “Yes, it was vital to beprovocative and also to scare people,” a Warner Bros professional informs me concerning the $60M-budget pic. “But both print and trailer and TV campaignpresent a far more well-rounded look at themystery. We did sell the visceral experience — a wise and thrilling take a look at a killer virus, the science behind it, and also the aftermath.” Warner Brostook the film to Venice to solid reviews and carried out anaggressive consumer campaign. Besides, adult movies will work in the box office. 2. Entering its fifth weekend in release, DreamWorks/Disney’s hit dramedy The Assistance also is backed by Participant Media made $2.7M Friday and $4M Saturday likely to $9.4M from 2,935 locations for that weekend.It’s estimatednew cume of $137.8M by Monday. 3.Thisseemingly anticipated mma drama Warrior starring Tom Sturdy (Bane within the next Batman) and Joel Edgerton was just launched for 1,869 runs. It openedwith $1.8M Friday and $2.1M Saturday for whatwasjust a dismal $4.8M weekend. Another very disappointing opening for Lionsgate that was high about this actioner. Did last weekend’s sneaks letsome wannasee steam escape? Will this hurt Sturdy whom Hollywood executives think about a hot soon-to-be-star? 4.Focus Features’ adult holdover Your Debt gained $1.4M Friday (-45% from the other day) from 1,874 theaters along with a forecasted $4.5M weekend to have an believed $21.6M cume by Monday. 5. The new sony Pictures’ holdover Colombiana made $1.1M Friday and $1.9M Saturday from 2,354 runs for any $4M weekend and $29.8M cume. However I get it on good authority that The new sony executives were hiding out in the Toronto Film Festival (where better-than-expected Moneyball formally opened Friday evening) instead of get labeled by its Columbia Pictures’ R-ratedBucky Larson: Born To Become A Star which in fact had probably the most annoying TV ad campaigns I’ve have you been attacked by. Thankfully, its box office take was tiny: $540K Friday and $570K Saturday for just a $1.2Mweekend. That wasn’t even enough to really make it in to the Top Ten a smaller amount The new sony’s wished-for $4M. Fortunately your budget is purportedlyjust $10M.Usually Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison production banner gives The new sony box office gold: stupid photos well-liked by audiences. But it was fool’s gold. Before I provide you with the relaxation from the Top Ten, you need to know thatKevin Hart’sLaugh Inside My Discomfort wasn't any. 10 Friday despite Hartbeat Productions and Codeblack Entertainment delivering it into only99 theaters. It opened up to$758K Friday and anestimated weekend of $2M.However it could eventually be beaten through the Weinstein Co’s Spy Kids 4D. (I’ll know Sunday AM.) Harts fans switched out with this profanity-filled film version of his recent stand-up tour. It provides under an hour or so of Hart onstage but additionally includes such bonus footage as Hart touring his old neighborhood in Philadelphia and faking a bank heist. Directed by Leslie Small, this 1-hour, 28-minute pic and it is entry in to the Top Ten now determines Hart like a bonafide star beyond just his YouTube videos that have attracted hundreds of an incredible number of sights. Search for the main galleries to take serious notice. 6. Rise From the Planet From The Apes (Fox) Week 6 [2,887 Theaters] Friday $1.1M,Saturday $1.8M,Weekend $4M, Believed Cume $168M 7. Shark Evening three dimensional (Relativity) Week 2 [2,848 Theaters] Friday $1M,Saturday $1.6M, Weekend $3.6M, Believed Cume $14.9M 8. Apollo 18 (Dimension/The Weinstein Co) Week 2 [3,330 Theaters] Friday $875K,Saturday $1.4M, Weekend $3M, Believed Cume $15.1M 9. Our Idiot Brother (The Weinstein Co) Week 3 [2,396 Theaters] Friday $835K,Saturday $1.1M,Weekend $3M, Believed Cume $21.7M 10. Laugh Inside My Discomfort (Hartbeat Prods/Codeblack Ing) NEW [99 Theaters] Friday $758K, Believed Weekend $2M

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