1. Legend of the Guardians - $24m / $24m / $78m
2. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - $20m / $20m / $56m
3. The Town - $14m / $47m / $85m
4. You Again - $13m / $13m / $42m
5. Easy A - $10m / $32m / $58m
6. Devil - $5.5m / $21m / $33m
7. Resident Evil: Afterlife - $5m / $52m / $64m
8. Alpha and Omega - $5m / $15.5m / $26m
9. Takers - $1.6m / $55m / $59m
10. The American - $1.3m / $35m / $38m
The top two are gambles. Most are predicting Wall Street 2 to open in the high 20's, low 30's - a number I'm not getting at all. I don't know if its the combo of the current state of the financial market and the amount of press Michael Douglas is getting of late, but its not like the original is still talked about that much. And random sequels that come out decades after the original rarely do well. But whenever I "don't get" why others predictions are so high, I usually end up in the wrong. Zack Snyder's owl movie would be the type of movie that should open higher given the drought of family films in early September, but there's minimal buzz on this. Still, it has the animated family market to itself till early November. As for You Again, it had one of my favorite lines in a trailer of recent ("Somebody call Us Weekly...") and the combo of Jamie Lee and Sigourney has my ticket money, but last week's Easy A - with its great reviews and red hot starlet - has seemingly already eclipsed it.
God, that was a lot for a non-summer weekend.
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