This weekend, the new movies trying to invade the top-10 movies of the box office movie charts included the animated feature Puss in Boots, In Time, and The Rum Diary.
The defending contender from last week was Paranormal Activity 3.
Puss in Boots took the booty for the weekend with the projected weekend box office tally of $34 million, taking the top spot.
Paranormal Activity 3 slid into the 2nd spot, pulling in just over $18M, while another new movie, In Time, with Justin Timberlake, pulled in $12M.
Footloose finally pulled in more money than Real Steel with Hugh Jackman, snaring over $5M, & Real Steel… just under $5M. Johnny Depp’s The Rum Diary, squeezed in between the previously noted two movies.
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Well, I had suspected that Paranormal Activity 3 was going to contend with Real Steel for the top spot in the top-10 movies from the weekend. But I didn’t suspect was that it would destroy not only the Hugh Jackman starring movie, but would set records in the process!
As estimates for the movie weekend are coming in, it looks as though the Henry Joost directed Paranormal Activity 3 will be pulling in $54M, far and above Shawn Levy‘s Real Steel, who placed 2nd. (Word of mouth is doing its job on this one!)
PA3‘s numbers are a box office record, with it being called the all-time biggest horror film openings of all time. In fact, if estimates hold true or close to accurate, PA3 made more than the other 9 movies in the top-10!
It’s getting both praise and punishment, depending who you look at. Some fans seem to be sneering at the delivery of the movie, despite knowing what they were getting into when they headed to the theater. I don’t get that… maybe trying to justify something.
But alas, the other interesting angst folks are pointing out and that I was dwelling on was that many of the scenes we saw in the movie trailers, well, most of them aren’t in the movie!
Paranormal Activity Review
The one movie trailer where the sisters are pulling off the ‘Bloody Mary’ routine in the bathroom does not exist in the bathroom. (Oh, as far as I’m concerned, never never never try that. It can’t be good, what comes of it.!)
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