Box: Sea Monkey Has My Money

1. Finding Nemo 3D - $27m / $27m / $80m
2. Resident Evil: Retribution - $23m / $23m / $56m
3. The Possession - $5m / $40.5m / $49m
4. Lawless - $3.5m / $29.5m / $35m
5. Last Ounce of Courage - $3.5m / $3.5m / $11m
6. The Expendables 2 - $3m / $80m / $85m
7. Paranorman - $2.5m / $49m / $53m
The Odd Life of Timothy Green - $2.5m / $46m / $50m
The Words - $2.5m / $46m / $50m
10. 2016 Obama's America - $2m / $30m / $34m
The Bourne Legacy - $2m / $107m / $110m
*Arbitrage - $1m / $1m / $4m


Finding Nemo is tracking higher, and of all the 3D releases it seems like the one that would most benefit for the treatment.  The Resident Evil series, much like the Underworld franchise, are reliable performers and seem to show no sign of showing down.  As long as they only cost $20-30 million and gross in the mid 50's domestically, they'll keep showing up.  I think Last Ounce of Courage is in around 1000 theatres, so it could go higher.  Arbitrage is playing in less than 200 theatres, but I doubt it'll make the top ten.  Lastly, The Master debuts in 4 theatres and it'll be interesting what kind of per theatre average records it can break.  I expect it do around $100k per location.

Last weekend was the lowest grossing weekend in 4 years, and the two 3D openers should provide a small bounce.  Next weekend, with offererings from Clint Eastwood and Jennifer Lawrence should turns things around nicely.