User blog:Ceauntay/Weekend Box Office - Jane Hoop Elementary Triumph



Summer took a box office breather this weekend, letting a couple of non-blockbuster comedies take the lime light before another string of big-budget sequels and franchise entries storm theaters over the next few weeks. Newcomers Horrible Bosses and Zookeeper made respectable debuts in third and fourth with $28 million and $21 million respectively, but it was only good news for one of them. Horrible Bosses, which shrewdly managed some top names while keeping its budget to a profitable $35 million, is well on its way to breaking into the black. On the other hand, Zookeeper and its CG enhanced talking animals rolled out on a heftier $80 million budget, leaving Kevin James' second headline movie in a bad way financially. But don't count James out yet. Paul Blart, which was no less comedically flaccid than Zookeeper, opened two years ago with $31 million but went on to make nearly five times that amount in domestic sales. Transformers: Dark of the Moon fell to the number two spot, banking an additional $47 million over the weekend. That brings its total domestic sales to $261 million, pushing it past The Hangover 2's $250 million running total to be highest grossing film of 2011 to date.

Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush: Part 2 opened at number one, grossing $145 million, breaking the record as the highest grossing opening of 2011 to date. For the full weekend top ten list, check out the chart below:



1.

Jane Hoop Elementary: The Final Rush: Part 2

$145,800,000

Total: $145,800,000

LW: N    WR: 1

THTRS: 4,453

2.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

$47,025,000

Total: $261,000,000

LW: 1    WR: 2

THTRS: 4,088

3.

Horrible Bosses *

$28,110,000

Total: $28,110,000

LW: N    WR: 1

THTRS: 3,040

4.

Zookeeper *

$21,000,000

Total: $21,000,000

LW: N    WR: 1

THTRS: 3,482

5.

Cars 2

$15,209,000

Total: $148,828,000

LW: 2    WR: 3

THTRS: 3,990 6.

Bad Teacher

$9,000,000

Total: $78,757,000

LW: 3    WR: 3

THTRS: 2,962 7.

Larry Crowne

$6,264,000

Total: $26,526,000

LW: 4    WR: 2

THTRS: 2,976

8.

Super 8

$4,825,000

Total: $118,056,000

LW: 5    WR: 5

THTRS: 2,292

9.

Monte Carlo

$3,800,000

Total: $16,125,000

LW: 6    WR: 2

THTRS: 2,473

10

Green Lantern

$3,125,000

Total: $109,709,000

LW: 7    WR: 4

THTRS: 2,015