Top Shelf at the Box Office!

You know it's a quiet week when a remake of a relatively unknown Disney flick from the 1970's takes the top spot. And it stars a former wrestler. No, it's not Rowdy Roddy Piper this time.

1. Race to Witch Mountain-$25M/$25M

Well, Disney must love The Rock right about now. This is the second time he's come through for them, the first time being in the stil as yet unseen by me film, The Gameplan, which hauled in over $90M a couple of years ago. Apparently even mostly negative reviews didn't stop kids from dragging their parents, although Disney is saying is that nearly 20% of the audience were unaccompanied adults. No doubt these were the same people who have paid to see John Cena in The Marine, Kane in See No Evil, and Steve Austin in The Condemned and would no doubt pay to see Koko B. Ware in a movie about carrier pidgeons. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea...

2. Watchmen-$18.1M/$86M

Let the knife throwing begin! Yes, Watchmen dropped nearly 70% to bring it's total two week total to $86M, and for the second week in a row people are trying to pass this off as a complete denouncement of the film's merits. Well, actually that dropoff is in line for pratically every other major franchise release over the last few years. And unlike some of those films, Watchmen is sure to have a long life through IMAX. While it may struggle to surpass it's $150M estimated budget here in the States, worldwide grosses have been phenomenal.

3. The Last House on the Left-$14.7M
Not a bad opening for a remake of a relatively unknown horror film from over 30 years ago. You can't expect this to match up to the $40M opening weekend of Friday the 13th, which is a much more recognizable series sporting a more stylized presentation.

4. Taken-$6.65M/$127M

5. Madea Goes to Jail-$5.13M/$83.2M

T.P.(how appropriate!) hauls in another boatload of cash from unsuspecting people thinking they are going to see something of value. Instead what they get is the black Mrs. Doubtfire.

6. Slumdog Millionaire-$5.03M/$133M

Danny Boyle's rags to riches classic just pushed it's way into the top 10 highest grossing Best Picture winners. Couldn't have happened to a better film!

7. Paul Blart: Mall Cop-$3.1M/$138M

8. He's Just Not That Into You-$2.9M/$89M

9. Coraline-$2.65M/$69.1M

10. Miss March-$2.35M
A woeful start(and likely finish) to the poorly received, poorly marketed sex comedy featuring the comedy troupe, The Whitest Kids You Know. It's been a rough couple of years financially for movies like this(see also: Sex Drive), which leads me to wonder what the future holds for comedies that don't have the name "Apatow" attatched to them. Surely, Miss March could've done a better job promoting another scene stealing turn by Craig Robinson, rather than two relatively unknown leads.