Box: Hope Floats...In Space

Or the rejected pitch to Miss Congeniality 3, where she goes into space. 

1. Gravity - $37m / $37m / $140m
2. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 - $21m / $60m / $125m
3. Runner Runner - $10m / $10m / $26m
4. Prisoners - $6m / $48.5m / $64m
*Rush - $6m / $20m / $35m
6. Baggage Claim - $4.5m / $15.5m / $27m
7. Don Jon - $4m / $16m / $25m
8. Insidious: Chapter 2 - $3m / $74m / $80m
9. Enough Said - $2.5m / $5.5m / $25m
10. Instructions Not Included - $2m / $41.5m / $46m

Two of our biggest stars will literally be among the stars in hugely anticipated and massively acclaimed Gravity.  This is probably one of the most exciting box-office runs of the year, if all goes according to plan.  If mainstream audiences reject the film, then we're fucked.  Come on, America!  Runner Runner looks to be about the most bland films of the year and reviews show it.  It might have done better with a PG-13 rating.  Most of last week's openers went a little lower than excpected, but this seems to be a strong month with a large crop of adult-aimed films.  Enough Said is proving a nice alternative to the darker fare and will continue to thrive.  It's rumored to be going wide next week.  Several additional movies are opening in a couple hundred theaters a piece - Parkland, Grace Unplugged and another Mexican film, Pulling Strings.  Given Instructions Not Included's breakout success, that last one might be the one to watch.