Nicolas Cage - a timely help from a college hoops - powered sci-fi action picture “knowing" to the top of the weekend box office an estimated $ 24.8 million for the tour.
Gross income was more than a third higher than its closest competitor, the comedy "I love you, Man", which took a $ 18 million. Finishing third was the Julia Roberts vehicle "Duplicity," her first major leading role in half a decade. It brought $ 14.4 million for the ticket window, the movie data tracker Media by Numbers.
" Knowing," starring Cage is astrophysicist bent of saving the global world was expected to face stiff challenge of guy-oriented "I love you, Man," which also opened on Friday.
Instead, the Summit Entertainment release cruised, no small part because the NCAA basketball tournament began this weekend. That meant tens of thousands of young men were probably planted in front of the small screen rather than the silver one.
Dergarabedian said the violent and long "guards" had been unfairly compared to mega-movies like "Batman" and "Spider-Man," which leap to $ 150 million and more without breathing hard.
The difference, he said, was that they did not have the R-rated movies, and they had a much more familiar to the crew heroes and villains. "This is not a populist comic book movie," he said.
The weekend estimated take of all films was $ 107 million. That's a decrease to 5.2% from a year earlier.
Even so, ticket sales this year, well before 2008. This is the first 12 weeks of the year box-office receipts totaled $ 2.2 billion, up 12%.
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