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...Train Your Dragon, $43.3 million, first weekend 2. Alice in Wonderland, $17.3 million; $293 million, fourth week 3. Hot Tub Time Machine, $13.7 million, first weekend ?4. The Bounty Hunter, $12.4 million, $38.8 million, second week 5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, $10 million; $35.8 million, second week ?6. She's Out of My League, $3.5 million; $25.6 million, third week 7. Green Zone, $3.4 million; $30.4 million, third week 8. Shutter Island, $3.2 million; $120.6 million, sixth week 9. Repo Men, $3 million; $11.3 million, second week 10. Our Family Wedding, $2.2 million; $16.8 million, third week...
Surprise: dweebs rule! Wimpy Kid showed unexpected appeal and did the best of the new releases at the domestic box office. Its $21.8 million edged The Bounty Hunter's $21 million, according to official studio estimates. With a teacher's-pet A-minus in CinemaScore's poll of exiting moviegoers, the comedy about a bright boy's passage through sixth grade should prove best in class for youngsters over the next few weeks and do well enough to green-light a sequel. (Kinney has published four books in the series, with a fifth due out this year...
...Monday update: Final figures for the weekend showed that Wimpy Kid did even better than its estimate, with $22.1 million, while The Bounty Hunter was a bit under its forecaste, at $20.7 million. Green Zone actually earned $6.113 million to finish fifth, ahead of She's Out of My League ($5.8 million) and just a few thousand dollars below Repo Men ($6.126 million). Alice in Wonderland was still the big winner, with a $34.2 million final tally...
...Bounty Hunter, which was positioned to be the weekend's top newcomer, didn't exactly underperform; its opening was in line with the first weekends of other Aniston and Butler comedies. But with a cruddy 9% score from Rotten Tomatoes' survey of movie critics and a B-minus CinemaScore rating, the film can't expect much repeat business. At least it did better than Repo Men, whose re-poor $6.2 million made it suitable for foreclosure. Shelved for more than two years after its late-2007 shoot, the picture deepened the red-ink bloodbath at Universal, which has suffered from...
...Alice in Wonderland, $34.5 million; $265.8 million, third week 2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, $21.8 million, first weekend 3. The Bounty Hunter, $21 million, first weekend 4. Repo Men, $6.2 million, first weekend 5. She's Out of My League, $6.015 million; $20 million, second week 6. Green Zone, $5.963 million; $24.7 million, second week 7. Shutter Island, $4.8 million; $115.8 million, 8. Avatar, $4 million; $736.9 million, 14th week 9. Our Family Wedding, $3.8 million; $ 13.7 million, second week 10. Remember Me, $3.3 million; $13.9 million, second week...