Blades Of Glory takes a second gold

After all the hype and buzz, it would appear that the only filmgoers interested in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’ Grindhouse were people who either love the movie-making bad boys or those pining for a return to cinemas with sticky floors, cheap movies and exploit-o-grot. But more on Grindhouse in a moment.

The weekend belonged once more to Will Ferrell, who saw skating comedy Blades Of Glory slice the ice for a second winning weekend, making $23 million over the Easter weekend. Also doing swift business to stay in second place was Disney’s Meet The Robinsons, which will have the studio’s execs feeling happier as the movie only dropped about 32% to take in $17 million for $52.2 million so far. It doesn’t point to The Robinsons becoming a blockbuster, but at least it shouldn’t be a flop.

You have to look down at fourth place to find poor old Grindhouse, which appears to have suffered from niche appeal, a poor choice of weekend (counter-programming against all the family fluff might have seemed a good idea, but it didn’t really work out when the majority of cinema-going over Easter is entire families) and length to stagger bloodied and beaten to $11.5 million. With a $53 million budget to recoup, it’s going to have to hope that international audiences love it.

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