In perhaps the closest box office struggle for supremacy this year, Date Night beat last week’s top earner Clash Of The Titans to this week’s prized first place.
Taking $27.1m of our cousins’ hard earned cash on the other side of the pond, Date Night won by a hair’s breadth over Clash ’s $26.8m. The latter has now taken $110m despite an almost universal critical lashing.
Audiences still piled in to see Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland , assuring that his 3D fantasy took sixth place with $5.6m (and a Stateside total of $319m) over Hot Tub Time Machine , which settled for seventh.
Meanwhile, The Bounty Hunter and Diary Of A Wimpy Kid both dropped one place to eighth and ninth, the former earning $4.3m (a dismal total of $56m), the latter $4.1m.
New entry Letters To God opened in tenth with a pitiful $1.1m – obviously all the kids really wanted to see gods clashing, instead of the more depressing sounding story of a young cancer-struck boy scribbling letters to Him up there.
Next week: Kick-Ass ! Something tells us that Matthew Vaughn’s ‘everybody can be a superhero’ flick is going to galvanise the competition, and make all those studios who initially turned him down weep into their bank statements. Bring. It.
What did you see this weekend?
