Monday Morning Box Office Report: Zombieland Devours the Competition
Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland did indeed break the horror-comedy slump over the weekend by notching a $25 million opening — the second-highest debut ever for a zombie flick, just behind Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs held strong at #2 with another $16 million, no doubt taking a chunk of business away from the Toy Story/Toy Story 2 3-D re-release, which earned just $12.5 mil. Ricky Gervais’ The Invention of Lying had a rather lukewarm response with $7.35 million, while Surrogates rounded out the top 5. Both Whip It and Capitalism: A Love Story had somewhat disappointing (although not entirely unexpected) turnouts, landing them at #6 and #7 respectively. With all this competition, someone had to lose out, right?
1. Zombieland — $25M
2. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs — $16.7M
3. Toy Story — $12.5M
4. The Invention of Lying — $7.35M
5. Surrogates — $7.34M
6. Whip It — $4.85M
7. Capitalism: A Love Story — $4.85M
8. Fame — $4.75M
9. The Informant! — $3.8M
10. Love Happens — $2.78M
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“It’s time to nut up or shut up.”
Posted by BigHungry on October 5th, 2009Word of mouth has been great for zombieland. Enough to make me wanna see it.
Posted by Chris on October 5th, 2009Leave a Reply