Several movies have made the grade with critics of late, but enthusiasm for Scott Pilgrim and now Piranha has not lead to large numbers at the box office. It has been very disheartening to see how poorly some movies have done at the box office.
Piranha should have been a slam-dunk for the Weinstein Company and Dimension, but the film only managed to snag sixth place, and did not break $10 Million over the weekend. That is with 3D ticket prices tallied in, which makes it even more disappointing.
Audiences that did see the movie didn’t really like it. The film only got an exit poll score of “C” from film-goers, according to Entertainment Weekly’s Hollywood Insider.
Nobody seemed too interested in seeing any of the new offerings. Holdover Expendables won the weekend with $16.5 Million. The film dropped about 50%, and its two week total is $65 Million. Take that, naysayers.
Vampires Suck nabbed the number two spot. The team that brought you the Scary Movie franchise, Date Movie, Epic Movie and many more, decided to parody the Twilight franchise this time around. The film has made about $18 Million since its opening day last Wednesday, with $12 Million of that coming from the weekend.
The Twilight series is ripe for parody, but the film clips for this film just weren’t that funny
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