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Weekend box office for February 24

It didn’t take long at a beer pong table to see that Vantage Point, the Matthew Fox vehicle, was the weekend’s top drama, raking in over $24 million to secure the top spot at the box office. Jumper, last weekend’s number one flick, could only manage just over half that total with $12.65 million for second place, just ahead of the children’s drama, the Spiderwick Chronicles.

Step Up 2 the Streets and Fools’ Gold rounded out top five, but only Vantage Point was a first-weekend debut release. New Line’s Be Kind, Rewind placed seventh overall, while the comedy Witless Protection and the heavily promoted Charlie Barlett took 13th and 14th place respectively. Indy comedy June remains strong, raking in another $4.1 million to add to its $130 million total so far.

Viewers embrace Hollywood’s Fool’s Gold

Never mind the planes, boats and Coaster furniture that was wrecked during production … it turns out viewers loved Fool’s Gold, the Matthew McConaughy / Kate Hudson romantic comedy enough to give the first-week release top honors at the box office the weekend before Valentine’s Day, to the tune of approximately $22 million. The first-week release, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, starring Martin Lawrence, also proved popular with a $17.1 million reception, good enough for second place.

Business was down significantly for the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus concert film, though it took third place with over $10 million, while chiller-thriller The Eye, starring Jessica Alba, took in over $6 million to seal away fourth place. Underdog indy comedy Juno moved up a spot, showing remarkable staying power in its 10th week of release as Oscar buzz builds around it, taking in $5.72 million to edge out 27 Dresses. Juno is the highest-grossing movie currently in the Top 5, having garnered $117 million to date.

Rambo dropped to eighth place and Meet the Spartans to ninth place in their third weeks of release. Rambo, which cost $50 million to make, has only raked in $36 million domestically and will likely need to rely on overseas and home video sales to get into the black. Unlike last year’s Rocky Balboa, it appears Rambo was not re-embraced by nostalgic Sylvester Stallone fans.