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The results have been released for The Dark Knight Rises. During the opening weekend, the movie made, $161 million. This is the third biggest opening weekend.
The biggest opening was The Avengers with $200 million. Word is that Warner Bros. will be donating money to the families who were affected by the shooting in Colorado.
Sony and MGM’s 21 Jump Streetlit up the R-rated comedy marketplace, opening to a stellar $35 million at the domestic box office.
Starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, the light-hearted take on the classic TV series nabbed the best debut ever for a nonsequel, nonsummer R-rated comedy, as well as one of the best bows on the books for an action-buddy comedy or a television-to-film adaptation.
Overseas, Jump Street rolled out in 11 markets, grossing $7 million, including a standout $4.3 million in Australia, where it launched ahead of past R-rated comedies The Hangover, Tropic Thunder and Bad Teacher (also from Sony). In the U.K., it grossed $2.5 million.
Faris’ and Evans’ comedy What’s Your Number? barely managed to make the Top 10, with a weak $5.6 million estimated Friday-Sunday debut.
The movie is Evans’ second non-starter in as many weeks, after the low-profile Puncture.
Compared to What’s Your Number?, the A-list thriller Dream House, starring Craig, Naomi Watts and Rachel Weisz, did a little better, or a lot worse, if you consider its reputed $50 million budget. Still, it’s too early to call flop on Dream House as its international cast figures to be a draw overseas.
Rogen’s and Joseph Gordon-Levitt‘s 50/50 was the weekend’s “top” new release, meaning it opened in fourth place. It was Rogen’s smallest-opening movie ever about cancer; on the other hand, it was his first appropriately budgeted one. 50/50 cost about what it made: $8 million; his earlier Funny People was a $75 million money-loser.
