Box Office: ‘Madagascar 3′ & ‘Prometheus’ Easily Hold Off Adam Sandler & Tom Cruise
Two new releases failed to overtake holdover Madagascar 3: Europe Most Wanted and Prometheus at the top of the US box office this past weekend. The DreamWorks animated feature is having a successful run, adding an additional $35.5 million in ticket sales and raising its domestic tally to $120.5 million in 10 days. With Pixar’s Brave launching next week, it’s likely that the party will be over soon but this all but guarantees a fourth installment to the franchise.
Meanwhile, Ridley Scott’s sci-fi film Prometheus held on to the second spot with $20.2 million despite a massive 60.4% drop in ticket sales from last weekend. This isn’t all that surprising, given the mixed reviews and lukewarm word-of-mouth for a movie that seems to have underwhelmed a large portion of its audience.
And this brings us to Rock of Ages, a movie that was long projected to open in the $30 million range but barely managed to do half the business. The musical starring the likes of Tom Cruise, Russell Brand, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Alec Baldwin debuted to the disappointing tune of $15.1 million. The audience skewed 62% female and 74% over the age of 25, which isn’t surprising given the 1980s music featured in the movie. So what happened? Let’s just suggest that no one wants to remember the 80s.
Finally, it seems that there is some justice and common sense out there as Adam Sandler’s That’s My Boy opened in fifth place, behind Snow White and the Huntsman, collecting only $13 million and making it the weakest opening weekend for a Sandler comedy ever. Believe or not, even last year’s Jack and Jill managed to collect nearly $150 million worldwide despite a dismal 3% Rotten Tomatoes score. It’s unlikely that That’s My Boy will come remotely close to that number and you know what? I will drink to that.
Next week: Brave should easily wipe out the competition.
Weekend Box Office |
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| 1. Iron Man 3 | $72.5M |
| 2. The Great Gatsby | $51.1M |
| 3. Pain and Gain | $5.0M |
| 4. Tyler Perry Presents Peeples | $4.5M |
| 5. 42 | $4.7M |
| 6. Oblivion | $3.9M |
| 7. The Croods | $3.6M |
| 8. The Big Wedding | $2.5M |
| 9. Mud | $2.3M |
| 10. Oz The Great and Powerful | $0.8M |
12 Comments
I will definitely be drinking to the failure of That’s My Boy as well.
I think it is still too early to toast to the failure of That’s My Boy. Sandler’s R-rated films have never done that well. I am still waiting for one of his PG films to truly bomb before I can say his brand of comedy dead. I would love to see Sandler move into more serious roles, it is time he took a break from all the juvenile comedies.
I would also like to add that I’ll be drinking non-alcoholic beverages as I sort of consider myself to be a straight-edge person.
Man those animals certainly have power over aliens and rock stars, ahah.
It’s all about the kiddos, Ruth
I read somewhere that Prometheus’ B.O. plummeted in second week. What? That $20M does not seem too bad and the fact that it staved off two films in their opening weekend seems kinda good.
True $20M seems decent enough but from 50M is a 60% drop, which is pretty huge. The fact that Rock of Ages and That’s My Boy finished behind Prometheus has more to do with the fact that they both were huge bombs.
V. true.
The figures seem to point also to the fact that apparently not many people went to the movies this past weekend, maybe? I am never good with figuring this stuff out.
This doesn’t surprise me at all!! Me dislike Sandler so much and Rock of Ages is no Hairspray!!
I see there’s a little justice in the world.
I can’t wait for Brave! It will easily take out the competition. Also, I’m excited about Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Even if no one else is.
Ouch. Well I’m glad Prometheus beat both of them out, at least.
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