Date Night woos audiences

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?

Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.