Fearless Forecast: Teenage Aliens Pick Off Costumed Heroes

Here's a little trivia for you: Last month was the highest-grossing February in box office history. I know it's not the top month of the year or anything, but $770 million in four weeks with no true blockbuster being released is quite impressive. Audiences made a couple of blockbusters, however, with Taken and Madea Goes to Jail, and their performance helped the first two months of this year outperform the first two months of last year by nearly 20%. That hot streak will cool off a little bit this weekend, with one decent opening and one major event movie that should fall back to Earth in a major way. Race to Witch Mountain is the first family film since Coraline to open in wide release, and it should do about what these Disney flicks seem to always do - $25 million opening, $80 million overall. Watchmen had its chance, I'm afraid, and it didn't convert too many newbies. The verdict appears to be that you'll love it if you read the graphic novel, not so much (or not at all) if you didn't. We saw that reflected in last weekend's numbers, which peaked on Friday and struggled to justify the hype on Saturday and Sunday. This is really its last chance to make some significant coin. It'll just drown in competition beginning next week. Two other new releases will find their way into theaters, as well, with Miss March and The Last House on the Left filling the sex romp and horror categories for this month. The Wes Craven horror remake should do pretty well, but probably not on the level as the other remakes in that genre this year. Miss March...won't be around very long at all. The Top Five:
1 - Race to Witch Mountain - $24 million
2 - Watchmen - $22 million
3 - The Last House on the Left - $17 million
4 - Taken - $6.5 million
5 - Madea Goes to Jail - $5.5 million

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[knives]

Hey, I take offense that you'd think that all fans of the comic actually liked the movie Watchmen. ;)