Weekend Box Office: 'Gridiron Gang' scores a touchdown!

[The Clown Prince]

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson returns to theaters with his moderately critical favored Gridiron Gang with a first place debut of $15 million.

The Black Dahlia debuted as well with a second place take $10.3 million.

The animated Everyone's Hero opened in third place with $6.1 million.

And the last new film to open this weekend was The Last Kiss which opened in fourth place $4.7 million.

And rounding out the top 5 is The Covenant with a fifth place take, $4.7 million, and a $15.7 million total.

Out of the top 12 this weekend is Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (13th), Barnyard: The Original Party Animals (14th), Step Up (16th), and World Trade Center (18th).

Opening next weekend are four new movies. First up is All the King's Men (rated PG-13) with an all-star cast starring Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Patricia Clarkson, and Anthony Hopkins.

Up next is Jackass Number 2 (rated R) with Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Steve-O, Jason "Wee Man" Acuña, Chris Pontius, Preston Lacy, Dave England, and Ehren McGhehey.

Next is Flyboys (rated PG-13) with James Franco, Martin Henderson, Jean Reno, Jennifer Decker, David Ellison, Mac McDonald, Tchéky Karyo, and Ian Rose.

And finally we have Jet Li's Fearless (rated PG-13) starring Jet Li, Sun Li, Dong Yong, Nakamura Shidou, and Nathan Jones.

Here are your numbers...


1) Gridiron Gang- $15,000,000 ($15,000,000) NEW!
2) The Black Dahlia- $10,362,000 ($10,362,000) NEW!
3) Everyone's Hero- $6,150,000 ($6,150,000) NEW!
4) The Last Kiss- $4,702,000 ($4,702,000) NEW!
5) The Covenant- $4,700,000 ($15,714,000)
6) Invincible- $3,904,000 ($50,911,000)
7) The Illusionist- $3,751,000 ($23,254,000)
8) Little Miss Sunshine- $3,350,000 ($46,390,000)
9) Hollywoodland- $2,736,000 ($10,536,000)
10) Crank- $2,700,000 ($24,414,000)
11) The Protector- $2,461,000 ($9,044,000)
12) The Wicker Man- $2,115,000 ($20,744,000)

The Clown Prince

[The Penguin]

Good for The Rock! In his first film not overly hyped by WWE, Gridiron Gang did pretty well for itself. The Black Dahlia looked pretty good too so I hope both have some staying power.

Flyboys looks awesome, but I'm afraid next weekend will probably belong to Johnny Knoxville and his merry band of degenerates.

[Tay the Cat]

I want to see Gridiron Gang, if only because Phil Joanou directed it.

[Shadow Blaziken]

Yeah, It's pretty much safe to say that Jackass 2 will be #1 next week. (There's a ton of Middle School/High School kids I know who LOVE that kind of stuff.)

[Hades]

I've never even heard of Gridiron Gang (??).

I can't believe The Black Dahlia made only $10 mil. I thought it would be about 20. I was going to see it this weekend, but I got sick.