This past weekend, The Lorax took the number one spot at the box office with $70.7 million. Not a big surprise, it's the kind of family friendly fare that everyone can agree with, once you get past the glaring hypocrisy of making a multi-million dollar blockbuster out of a classic anti-corporate piece of literature. In second place was the movie about Matthew Broderick training chimpanzees for the military. What's that? Wrong Project X? Whatever. Other than that, nothing new made the top ten. I was hoping to see Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie on the list, but considering its limited release it makes sense it didn't earn much this weekend. As predicted, The Artist made a post-Oscars surge and was just barely able to squeak into the top 10.
Act of Valor takes the top spot this weekend, making a total of $24.7 million. Apparently Americans don't see the downside of having active duty Navy SEALs act in a movie, namely that they are not professional actors and look about as comfortable on screen as a real actor would look in combat. Tyler Perry's Good Deeds takes second place with $16 million, his worst opening weekend since Daddy's Little Girls. Other openers this weekend Wanderlust featuring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston, and the Amanda Seyfried vehicle Gone limped into 8th an 9th place respectively. Overall a bad week for cinema, which is par for the course at this time of year. Expect to see an Oscar victory surge for The Artist next weekend.
