Tagged: Friday the 13th

Perry On Top

Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail topped Oscar weekend box office by a huge margin last weekend as the “monster of indy black comedy” swallowed first position hole with a total take of $41 million in its initial bow. No Kohler faucet were harmed in the making of that movie, either!

But the rest of the weekend box office was hurting as only two other films broke the $10 million barrier; children’s animated fantasy Coraline, as well as the thriller-action flick Taken, but with about $11 million coming in last weekend. Everything else was down, but most notable was the plunge taken by Friday the 13th, which dropped over 80 percent on bad word-of-mouth. The slasher rehash took in just under $8 million, falling all the way from first to sixth.

Worst initial bow of the weekend goes to Fired Up, which managed only $5.4 million.

Jason hacks up box office

The 2009 makeover of the original Friday the 13th movie, with a more Jason-centric storyline and a fresh cast that includes Supernatural’s Jared Padalecki, did runaway business at the box office over the Friday the 13th weekend, scoring a solid $40.7 million at the box office against a $19 million production budget, over twice as much as the nearest competition. That secured a solid first place in the box office race.

In second position was last week’s champion, He’s Just Not That Into You, which added only $19.6 million in its second weekend of release. Taken, the proving-durable action-suspense drama starring Liam Neeson, was only a whisper behind for third place with $19.0 million in its third week. Confessions Of A Shopaholic took in a disappointing $15 million for fourth place, and the Top Five was rounded out by Coraline, which took in $14.7 million.

Sixth place saw Paul Blart: Mall Cop hanging in there with $11 million in its fifth week of release, enough to beat out the most disappointing wide release movie of the week, The International, which opened in seventh place with $9.3 million against a $50 million production budget.