“Prom Night”, the remake of the ‘80s horror classic, could
emerge as the winner of this weekend box office. According to the estimations
released by BoxOfficeMojo, the movie has earned $9,450,000 in ticket sales.
In this remake, Brittany Snow is Donna (in the original
movie the role was played by Jamie Lee Curtis), a high-school senior. She is
the sole survivor of a stalker who killed her family three years earlier and
who has returned to finish his job.
Produced by Sony Pictures and its Screen Gems division,
“Prom Night” was largely ignored by the movie critics, but is earnings were
almost double compared to those of “Street Kings,” which opened on the second
spot with $4,300,000 in ticket sales.
In “Street Kings”, Keeanu Reeves plays the role of Tom
Ludlow, a harsh police officer hunting the hoodlums on the streets and hunted in
turn by his own demons.
Directed by David Ayer, the writer and co-producer of
"Training Day" and based on a script written by James Ellroy, the
movie casts also Forest Whitaker as Ludlow’s
captain and Hugh Laurie as Captain Biggs from Internal Affairs.
“21”, the movie in which Kevin Spacey plays the role of
Micky Rosa, an MIT math professor who gathers a group of students teaching them
how to turn the odds at blackjack in their favor, ranked third with $3,300,000.
The total gross of the movie has reached $54,568,000.
The children’s adventure film “Nim’s Island,”
starring Academy Award nominee Abigail Breslin and two-time Oscar winner Jodie
Foster has gained the fourth place with $2,400,000.
George Clooney’s latest enthusiastic directorial effort,
sports comedy “Leatherheads,” has achieved only the fifth place $1,940,000. The
movie premiered last weekend scoring a modest $13.5 million in its first three
days in theaters.
“Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears A Who!” is still an attraction for
the movie goers and the movie earned $1,570,000, bringing its total gross to $135,198,000
in just 29 days since its
premiere.
Directed by former Pixar animator Jimmy Hayward and former
“Robots” art director Steve Martino and scripted by partners Ken Daurio and
Cinco Paul, whose credits include “College Road Trip,” “Horton” gives Theodore
Geisel’s 1954 literary classic a full-blown star treatment with Jim Carrey,
Steve Carell along with folksy news commentator Charles Osgood supplying the
voice-over narration.
”Smart People”, another movie that opened this weekend, gained $1,280,000 and
the seventh place. The movie starring Dennis Quaid and Sarah Jessica Parker focuses on the drama of intellectuals who
cannot fit into the normal world, lest derive any joy from it.
“The Ruins” ($1,060,000), “Superhero Movie” ($980,000) and
“Drillbit Taylor” ($690,000) rounded this Friday’s Top 10.
