User blog:Ceauntay/Box Office Report: 'Dark Knight Rises' Dominates Again, 'Total Recall' Soft

=Moviegoers give Sony's "Total Recall" remake a problematic C+ CinemaScore; Fox's family entry "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days" earns an A-.

Len Wiseman's Total Recall remake performed on the lower end of expectations at the Firday box office, grossing $9.2 million for a weekend debut in the $25 million to $26 million range.

Total Recall -- headlining Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel -- is proving no match for Christopher Nolan's final The Dark Knight Rises, which earned $10.4 million on its third Friday for a projected weekend gross in the $35 million range. Dark Knight Rises' domestic gross is now north of $328 million. From Sony, Total Recall earned a problematic C+ CinemaScore, which could put a dent on word-of-mouth. The remake, based both on the 1990 Paul Verhoeven film and the short story by Philip K. Dick, cost $125 million to produce, according to the studio. The weekend's other new entry is Fox's family pic Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days. The threequel, costing $22 million to make, came in third on Friday, grossing $5.9 million for a weekend debut in the $16 million to $17 million range. That's lower than the two previous films in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, but Dog Days is the first to open during summer instead of March. Dog Days earned an A- CinemaScore, same as the first two films. Paramount Pictures took the No. 4 spot on Friday with iCarly: The Sequel, while Ice Age: Continental Drift lands at No. 5.

iCarly fell 80 percent on its second Friday to $3.3 million for a domestical total of $45.3 million, and should gross in a north $12 million, bringing its 10 day cume to $57 million, lower than the $16 million total of iCarly: The Movie and $80 million 10-day total. The movie, however, is expanding to 34 foreign markets this weekend when opening in 16 more counries, and was expecting to be massive hit. Ice Age 4 grossed $2.5 million on its fourth Friday for a domestic total of $126 million (the movie is a massive hit overseas, where it has earned north of $550 million).