Box Office - 'Zombieland' Debuts with $25 Million

Already in the black, Zombieland opened with a $25 million weekend, a clear-cut victory for the Woody Harrelson comedy. It all got started with a $9.4 million Friday, and it's a big enough weekend that you can start thinking about how well the film can do over the long haul. It'll be easier to figure that out in another week, but it could top out around $75 - $80 million. Unfortunately, that's the only movie out this week that has that kind of potential. Drew Barrymore's Whip It should have done about twice as well as it did, finishing outside the top five in a tie with Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story. Those films combined made in three days about what Zombieland managed on Friday. Ricky Gervais' The Invention of Lying fared a little better, earning $7.35 million. I would have thought Whip It would have been in that position instead, though. And proving it still has punch, the Toy Story/Toy Story 2 3-D re-release finished in third place this weekend with $12.5 million. The top two films on a per-screen average were the Coen Brothers' A Serious Man, which made a quarter-million in six theaters, and the extremely low-budget Paranormal Activity, which jumped into the top 20 at the box office and picked up over half a million over the past three days. The Top Five:
1 - Zombieland ($25 million)
2 - Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs ($16.7 million)
3 - Toy Story/Toy Story 2 ($12.5 million)
4 - The Invention of Lying ($7.35 million)
5 - Surrogates ($7.34 million)

Comments

[Psyko Tek]

I think Zland will make
150 mil by end of run
iI think it weill explode next week with word of mouth and rpaet views

prob'ly wrong
I thought serenity would do the ame

[Get The Big Picture]

I don't think it'll get past $100 million, but I was wrong about The Hangover.

[chris r]

Shaun of the Dead meet National Lampoons Vacation meets Natural Born Killers. I'm there.