Weekend box office for April 27
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s pregnancy-buddy pic, Baby Mama, grabbed the golden binky, topping the weekend box office competition with an $18.2 million haul. Modern “Cheech and Chong” flick, “Harold and Kumar Escape Guantanamo Bay,” took second with a still-respectable $14.5 million.
Last week’s champs, The Forbidden Kingdom and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, slipped to third and fourth place, respectively, but still took in around $11 million each. Nim’s Island marked the big drop-off, however, taking in just over $4 million and taking the fifth spot.
Overall, box office was depressed for the weekend and may be reflective of the style of pictures typically released in April. The summer blockbuster season starts next weekend with the release of Paramount/Marvel’s Iron Man, which is expected to do huge numbers.
In fact, every weekend in May has a huge anticipated blockbuster releasing; following Iron Man will be the live-action Speed Racer, followed by the Chronicles of Narnia follow-up, Prince Caspian, rounds out with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which marks four top blockbusters in the first four weeks of May, although the final weekend of May could be flat in terms of new films, since the biggest scheduled release is the Sex and the City movie, for which expectations are much lower, and is seen as counter-scheduling to the action-heavy, male demographic films like Iron Man, Speed Racer and Indiana Jones.
Expect this to be the last quiet weekend for at least the next four weeks; the box office blitz is about to begin in a big way, and you’ll want to keep your Alli close and your enemies closer.
Tags: Alli, Baby Mama, Harold and Kumar Escape Guantanamo Bay, Iron Man
