The Jack Nicholson-Morgan Freeman buddy comedy, The Bucket List, topped weekend box office with an opening debut just under $21 million. The Ice Cube-Tracy Morgan comedy First Sunday wasn’t far behind with $19 million.
Yet Bill Gates may want to double up on his individual health insurance policy after the beating taken by the Microsoft-backed debut of In the Name of the King: A Dragon Siege Tale. Seems the PC hit RPG only had devout PC gamer fans attending its first-week bow as the film took in only $3.26 million despite appearing on over 1,600 screens.
The special effects-laden epic was beaten out by two spots by 3D animated Christian film, Veggie Tales: The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything, which took in $4.4 million over the same period. The Veggie Tales movie finished just out of the Top 10 at the 11 spot, while In the Name of the King bowed at spot 13, the worst debut of the week.
