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    Weekend Box Office: 'Madea Goes to Jail' is a big winner!

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    Tyler Perry's newest movie Madea Goes to Jail was the number one movie this weekend with $41.1 million. It was also his biggest opening to date. But like all of his movies, big first weekend, big drop off the following weekend so we'll see if the trend continues next week.

    Moving up one spot from third to second place was Taken with $11.4 million and a $95.1 million total.

    Doing well is Coraline with $11 million and a $53.3 million total.

    In fourth place was He's Just Not That Into You with $8.5 million and a $70 million total.

    And rounding out the top 5 is Slumdog Millionaire going into Oscar weekend with $8 million and a $98 million total. Speaking of Oscar weekend, Fox released it an an additional 610 theaters which saw it's business jump 10.5% over last weekend.

    Also opening this weekend was Fired Up with $6 million. It was released though 1,810 theaters.

    Out of the top 12 this weekend is Push (13th), and Hotel for Dogs (15th).

    Opening next weekend are two new movies. First up is Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (rated PG-13) starring Kristin Kreuk, Michael Clarke Duncan, Neal McDonough, Taboo, Chris Klein, Moon Bloodgood, Edmund Chen, Cheng Pei Pei, Josie Ho, and Robin Shou.

    And the other new film of the weekend is Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (rated G) with Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas, Demi Lovato, and Taylor Swift.

    Here are your numbers.....

    1) Madea Goes to Jail- $41,120,000 ($41,120,000) NEW!
    2) Taken- $11,400,000 ($95,153,000)
    3) Coraline- $11,031,000 ($53,393,000)
    4) He's Just Not That Into You- $8,540,000 ($70,083,000)
    5) Slumdog Millionaire- $8,050,000 ($98,020,000)
    6) Friday the 13th- $7,825,000 ($55,002,000)
    7) Confessions of a Shopaholic- $7,019,000 ($27,654,000)
    8) Paul Blart: Mall Cop- $7,000,000 ($121,380,000)
    9) Fired Up- $6,000,000 ($6,000,000) NEW!
    10) The International- $4,450,000 ($17,017,000)
    11) The Pink Panther 2- $3,700,000 ($29,374,000)
    12) Gran Torino- $3,640,000 ($134,436,000)
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    Man, big drop for Friday the 13th. Hope I can catch it this week.

    Really glad to see Taken is holding in there near the top. Word of mouth must be taking affect. I've said it before, but I really enjoyed it and thought it was a nice little action flick.
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    I'm not too happy about Madea taking the top spot since I hate those films but I'm certainly glad Taken is still going strong. That movie was awesome.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael24 View Post
    Man, big drop for Friday the 13th.
    I think most people who wanted to see Friday the 13th saw it last weekend.

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    Man Taken is BACK for a second round and I didn't know we were that close to Chun-Li day.
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    Wow, Coraline has more staying power than I thought it would.

    Good news for it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Syaoran Li View Post
    Wow, Coraline has more staying power than I thought it would.
    Word of mouth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Syaoran Li View Post
    Wow, Coraline has more staying power than I thought it would.

    Good news for it.
    The film was alright but I wouldn't call it the best that we've seen this year. We still have other contenders like Disney*Pixar's Up and Sony's Planet 51.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Syaoran Li View Post
    Wow, Coraline has more staying power than I thought it would.

    Good news for it.
    Remember, this is the last week it's being shown in 3D, which has been a lot of this business.

    Not that there'd be anything bad about seeing it in 2D. The 3D effects are really stunning for about 20% of the film but much of it doesn't look very different from a regular 2D projection.
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    Ah Madea, my favorite minstrel show.

    jk jk (uh...maybe?). I really do hate those movies, though. I can't completely hate Tyler Perry, though...he's pretty much the only person giving black actors and actresses in Hollywood jobs.

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    Eh I don't expect to see Street Fighter do exceptionally well next weekend. It hasn't received much publicity and the trailers make it look like a glorified DTV production.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NewcomerDC View Post
    The film was alright but I wouldn't call it the best that we've seen this year. We still have other contenders like Disney*Pixar's Up and Sony's Planet 51.
    Eh... from the trailers for Up that I've seen, I'm not really looking forward to it. It looks a bit funny, but there's just something that... I don't know, turns me off.

    As for Planet 51, I've never heard of it actually. There's sadly not another single movie coming out this year that I want to see.
    Quote Originally Posted by HG Revolution View Post
    Remember, this is the last week it's being shown in 3D, which has been a lot of this business.

    Not that there'd be anything bad about seeing it in 2D. The 3D effects are really stunning for about 20% of the film but much of it doesn't look very different from a regular 2D projection.
    Which is why the 3D was brilliant. My opinion on it resembles Wil Wheaton's, in that 3D is often times just a stupid gimmick. Most 3D productions make the thing just jump out at you, which is something I don't like. But with Coraline (and The Nightmare Before Christmas as well), the 3D is much more subtle, and is beautiful when it needs to be.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Dalek View Post
    Eh I don't expect to see Street Fighter do exceptionally well next weekend.
    Besides...it's gonna get beat by Jonas Bros.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Dalek View Post
    Eh I don't expect to see Street Fighter do exceptionally well next weekend. It hasn't received much publicity and the trailers make it look like a glorified DTV production.
    Diehard fans will see it for sure, especially since SFIV just came out last week. But other than that...yeah, can't see it doing too well.

    It doesn't really look that interesting, though, in any case. At least the Tekken movie looks laughably bad.

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    I'm very happy to see how well Coraline is doing. I'm still not overly thrilled with the movie itself, but this is a good thing for traditional animation as a whole.

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    Besides...it's gonna get beat by Jonas Bros.
    Oh wow, yeah. It has no chance. But I guess it wouldn't capture much of the Jonas crowd anyway.
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    While it's possible the Jonas Bros. will be #1 next weekend, I don't think it'll do the business the Hannah Concert Movie did. That just came out of nowhere in limited release and just grew from there. I think Disney's going all out with the Jonas Bros. Concert movie, thinking it'll do twice the business, but the truth is they just don't have the popularity Hannah does.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tobias View Post
    While it's possible the Jonas Bros. will be #1 next weekend, I don't think it'll do the business the Hannah Concert Movie did. That just came out of nowhere in limited release and just grew from there. I think Disney's going all out with the Jonas Bros. Concert movie, thinking it'll do twice the business, but the truth is they just don't have the popularity Hannah does.
    Yeah, but Taylor Swift is in the Jonas Bros. movie. Guys love her.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Syaoran Li View Post
    As for Planet 51, I've never heard of it actually. There's sadly not another single movie coming out this year that I want to see.
    James Cameron's Avatar (not the M Night movie), Inglorious Basterds, Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, 9 (the animated sci-fi movie), Nine (the Daniel Day Lewis musical), and The Lovely Bones don't appeal to you?

    Quote Originally Posted by Syaoran Li View Post
    Which is why the 3D was brilliant. My opinion on it resembles Wil Wheaton's, in that 3D is often times just a stupid gimmick. Most 3D productions make the thing just jump out at you, which is something I don't like. But with Coraline (and The Nightmare Before Christmas as well), the 3D is much more subtle, and is beautiful when it needs to be.
    I'm not talking about things jumping out at you. The parts of the 3D I liked were when it seemed the scene was going away inside the screen. The opening with the doll being pulled apart? Stunning. The tunnel extending outward from the door? Beautiful. The layers and layers of slowly abstracting trees? Perfect. Those scenes looked like you walked right onto the set of the film. Too much of the movie, however, didn't achieve that effect, and if a technique doesn't even seem to be working toward it's intended effect, what's the point?
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    Friday the 13th drop: saw it coming

    ughh I still need to see coraline D:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Syaoran Li View Post
    Yeah, but Taylor Swift is in the Jonas Bros. movie. Guys love her.
    They do?

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