Weekend Boxoffice Numbers

In Order

Friday the 13th
Studio: New Line
This Week: $40,570,365
Last Week: -
Total: $40,570,365
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He's Just Not That Into You
Studio: Warner Bros.
This Week: $19,518,465
Last Week: $27,785,487
Total: $54,986,933
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Taken
Studio: 20th Century Fox
This Week: $18,985,260
Last Week: $20,547,346
Total: $77,660,012
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Confessions of a Shopaholic
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
This Week: $15,066,360
Last Week: -
Total: $15,066,360
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Coraline
Studio: Focus Features
This Week: $14,783,157
Last Week: $16,849,640
Total: $35,019,078
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Studio: Columbia Pictures
This Week: $10,983,319
Last Week: $10,884,825
Total: $109,797,819
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The International
Studio: Columbia Pictures
This Week: $9,331,739
Last Week: -
Total: $9,331,739
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The Pink Panther 2
Studio: Columbia Pictures
This Week: $8,513,476
Last Week: $11,588,150
Total: $21,834,470
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Slumdog Millionaire
Studio: Fox Searchlight
This Week: $7,284,808
Last Week: $7,177,270
Total: $86,680,723
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Push
Studio: Summit Entertainment
This Week: $6,863,022
Last Week: $10,079,109
Total: $19,257,450

Thoughts:
The famous hockey masked Jason, slashed the box office this week. Friday the 13th opened in first place and scored a $40 million opening making it the biggest opening for a horror film. One would also expect an announcement for a sequel considering these strong numbers and the ending for the film. A review for the film is in the works and should go up sometime this week.

Warner's He's Just Not That Into You fell into the number 2 spot with $19 million over the weekend. The film is still doing good with the ladies and should make it to a $100 million before its done. The Liam Neeson action thriller "Taken", is still doing strong numbers and brought in $18 million. The Fox flick is already at $77 million and could reach a $100 million as soon as next week. I still haven't seen this film and hopefully Ill have time this week to do so. The chick flick "Confessions of a Shopaholic" from Disney took the 4th spot with $15 million. I was expecting much more considering the film is based on a best selling book with the same name and leans more towards that family type genre.

Coraline from Focus Features did pretty well this week with an estimated $14 million. The animated flick from director Henry Selick should continue to do decent numbers considering its one of the few animated flicks in theaters. The review for the movie is up and its definitely something that's worth checking out. Sony's Paul Blart continues to do good numbers and is already at $110 million. The comedy flick brought in $10 million over the weekend. Sony's International came in at number 7 with an average gross of $9 million. I was also expecting this film to open bigger, but I guess Taken stole some of the film's audience.

It looks like the hype on Slumdog Millionaire kind of died down. The film still made a cool $7 million over the weekend which is good for a film of its budget. I can see numbers going up a bit around the time of the Oscars.