User blog:Ceauntay/Box Office Report: 'Victorious: The Movie' Is Victorious With $17.6 Million

=The teen comedy could now be on track for a $40 to $45 million haul over the weekend.

Moviegoers has made Victorious: The Movie victorious at the box office on Friday, earning a massive $17.6 million from 3,718 locations, followed by a $6.7 million from late Thursday night showings. The pic is now looking foward for weekend total to $40 to $45 million, easily topping the box office. The pic also scored a B-plus CinemaScore.

Another newcomers, 42, earned in $9.1 million for a $20 million haul for second place, while Scary Movie 5 made only $5.5 million landing in third with a total of $13.5 million.

The teen comedy pic, a Paramount Picture film based on a hit TV series Victorious from Nickelodeon, is directed by Dan Schnider and stars Victoria Justice, Leon Thomas III, Elizabeth Gillies, Ariana Grande, Matt Bennett, Avan Jogia and Daniella Monet'. The pic costars Justin Timberlake, Alison Brie and Rihanna.

Thing weren’t quite so rousing for Dimension’s Scary Movie 5, the weekend’s other new wide release. Moviegoers are giving it a C-minus CinemaScore. STORY: '42' Star Chadwick Boseman: Jackie Robinson's Widow 'Overjoyed' By Biopic Financed by Legendary Pictures, whose CEO Thomas Tull personally produced the $40 million project, the PG-13-rated 42 was written and directed by Brian Helgeland (A Knight’s Tale), and stars Chadwick Boseman as Robinson and Harrison Ford as the Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey. Scary Movie is the latest installment in the long-running franchise from The Weinstein Co.’s Dimension label that dates back to 2000. Malcolm D. Lee, who last directed 2008’s Soul Men, handled the directing reins of the PG-13 comedy, which cost just $19.5 million, and the cast is something of a rogue’s gallery of boldface names including Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Simon Rex and Ashley Tisdale. Among the holdovers, Sony/Screen Gems Evil Dead, which was number one at the box office last weekend, checked in in fourth place with $3.2 million. Fox’s release of DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods, entering its fourth weekend, was fifth with $3.1 million.