Jonah Hex Gets MacGrubered At The Box Office
The unflattering reviews last week for Jonah Hex proved to be a bad omen for the comic book adaptation. An incoherent plot and woefully short run time helped lead to a disastrous $5.08 million opening, bad enough for 8th place at the weekend box office. Geesh, even the awful Killers finished slightly higher in 7th. Hex joins MacGruber as the summer’s biggest flops thus far, and both are early front-runners for the Razzie Awards.
The big winner, as expected, was Toy Story 3. The final chapter in the immensely successful Pixar franchise netted a record-breaking $109 million, a whopping $80 million more than second-place finisher The Karate Kid. In fact, Toy 3 was so dominant is became Pixar’s highest opening to date. However, those numbers are a bit misleading due to the 3200 3D screens it played on. Nevertheless, the eleven year layoff between sequels did nothing to hurt its reception by critics or audiences.
Here’s how the Top 10 stacked up:
1. Toy Story 3 - $109 million
2. The Karate Kid – $29 million
3. The A-Team – $13.8 million
4. Get Him to the Greek – $6.12 million
5. Shrek Forever After – $5.52 million
6. Prince of Persia – $5.27 million
7. Killers – $5.1 million
8. Jonah Hex – $5.08 million
9. Iron Man 2 – $2.67 million
10. Marmaduke – $2.65 million
At this point, Iron Man 2 still has a firm grip on the summer box office championship. Toy 3 might make a run at the title, but the more likely contenders will be The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and Inception.
This week will be pretty quiet at theaters with only the Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz action comedy Knight and Day dropping on Wednesday. To say it looks stupid would be an understatement.
