The opening movies this week are a few highly anticipated movies that are facing off on the silver screen this Friday, October 1st. We’ll see if The Social Network gets enough “like’ button hits vs. the eternal power of the vampire in Let Me In. (I’m not sure, but I think a vampire would outlast Facebook… only because social networks do tend to come and go.) But before we look at the opening movies, let’s check on the …
Box Office Numbers fr September 24 Week
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Last week, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps outperformed everyone, pulling in $19M at the box office. Close behind was Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole and The Town kept up it’s great performance at the box office, bringing in just under $16M last weekend.
Here’s something to ponder though: Even though The Town is in the third slot, per theater, it outperformed everyone pulling in $5400 per theater, while Wall Street 2 pulled in $5300 per theater. (Theaters: The Town: 2,885; Wall Street 2: 3,565). A quirky technical observation: Waiting for Superman outdid everyone by averaging just under $35k per theater… OK, it was only in 4 theaters in its first week.
Check out the 10 top-performing movies from last weekend, where we still see Resident Evil Afterlife hanging on as well as Takers and Inception:.
| Title | Weekend | Gross |
| Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | $19M | $19M |
| Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole | $16.1M | $16.1M |
| The Town | $15.6M | $48.7M |
| Easy A | $10.6M | $32.7M |
| You Again | $8.41M | $8.41M |
| Devil | $6.61M | $21.9M |
| Resident Evil: Afterlife | $4.95M | $52.1M |
| Alpha and Omega | $4.74M | $15.2M |
| Takers | $1.62M | $54.9M |
| Inception | $1.25M | $287M |
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Opening Movies for Friday, October 1st
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The Social Network
Starring Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg & Rooney Mara, the movie is basically about the founding of the social networking website, Facebook. It’s directed by David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, WALL-E) and the screenplay was written by Aaron Sorkin (Charlie Wilson’s War, The Rock).
Despite my misgivings about the site and how it sometimes treats its customers, this could be a fascinatingly good movie and I’ve seen some praise out there amongst the movie sites for the movie already.
- “You don’t get to 500 million friends, without making a few enemies.”
Check out movie times & skip those lines!
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Let Me in
Let Me In is about a bullied young boy who befriends a young vampire girl who, obviously, has to live in secrecy with her guardian. It stars Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road) & Chloe Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass). It’s directed & written/adapted from Let The Right One In by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, TV: Felicity).
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Case 39
Case 39 stars Renee Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane & Bradley Cooper in a movie about a social worker who is in a fight to save a girl from a set of abusive parents. The situation, it turns out, is more deadly than she first suspects! It’s directed by Christian Alvart (Pandorum) and written by Ray Wright (The Crazies).
Yes, it’s a 2009 movie that made the rounds in the indie film circuit and has opened in every other country and is finally opening here in the U.S., being distributed by Paramount Vantage.
It’s a fascinating preview!
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Chain Letter
This movie stars Nikki Reed (New Moon, Twilight) & Keith David (Hopelessly in June) and is about a madman who murders teens when they don’t forward his chain letter. It’s written and directed by Deon Taylor (Dead Tone).
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