User blog:Ceauntay/Box Office Report: 'True Jackson' Grosses $5.5 Million From Midnight Screenings

The film adaptation is off to a huge start.

Nickelodeon Movies' True Jackson, VP: The Movie got off to a fashionable start, grossing a whooping $5.5 million from its midnight showings, playing in roughly 2,045 locations, for Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies. This is a new record for a G rated movie.

Its previous best record is iCarly: The Movie, another production from Nickelodeon Movies, with $4 million. It's also ahead of other films this year Thor ($3.3 million), Fast Five ($3.6 million) and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ($4.7 million) of 2011 which is pretty strong.

Today, True moves into 3,729 locations, the second widest release for a G rated movie ever behind iCarly: The Movie (4,025 locations).

True is expected to gross in $60 million for its five day weekend during Memorial Day, with a huge Thursday opening to between $16 to $19 million for a day.

True is also making in just $35-38 million for a three-day weekend, and $40-45 million for a four-day weekend. True also opened in 15 territories this weekend.