1. How to Train Your Dragon
- $15M/$178M Thanks to weak showings by the week's new releases and a relatively small drop in compared to last week, Dragon continues it's claw grip on the top spot, widening the margin over last week's top rival, Kick-Ass.
2. The Back-Up Plan
- $12.2M Not even the grand return of Jennifer Lopez to the usually lucrative rom-com genre could bolster this putrid film's numbers. By comparison, her last mainstream film was 2005's Monster-in-Law
which took in over $150M worldwide.3. Date Night
- $10.6M/$63.5M For some reason I want to compare this with Bruce Willis' 1987 dating disaster comedy, Blind Date
, which I loved mainly because of how hot Kim Basinger was. 4. The Losers- $9.61M
Well, no one can say it doesn't live up to the title. Considering the somewhat meager pricetag of $25M to produce, it's likely that The Losers will make up it's costs globally and through DVD. Kindof surprising to see it fail considering the massive marketing campaign, the recognizable cast including current "It" girl Zoe Saldana, and the general appeal of this type of film.
5. Kick-Ass
- $9.5M/$34.9M How sad is it that Kick-Ass isn't likely to surpass the $80M haul of the abysmal 2008 spoof, Superhero Movie? But to call Matthew Vaughn and Mark Millar's violent flick a failure is only correct if you had high expectations for it based off the Comic-Con buzz, which I've been saying for months is way overblown. Looking strictly at the numbers, Kick-Ass cost $30M to produce and has already surpassed that. It will take in more off DVD sales. Looking at it purely through the prism of finance, it's worked out.
6. Clash of the Titans
- $9M/$146M 7. Death at a Funeral
- $8M/$28.4M 8. Oceans
- $6M/$8.47M Getting a jump on the competition by releasing on Earth Day didn't help DisneyNature's latest doc, falling just short of the $8.8M debut of last year's feature, Earth
. 9. The Last Song
- $3.71M/$55.4M 10. Alice in Wonderland
- $2.24M/$328M
