Box Office Goes To Zombieland

Zom-com takes US top spot

Box Office Goes To Zombieland

by Helen O’Hara |
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The undead hordes swept the box office in the US this weekend, with rom-zom-com Zombieland marching straight to the top with a pretty respectable $25 million opening weekend. In its wake was Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, falling off the top after two weeks, and the re-released double-bill of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 in 3D in third. The moral of this story? If you're not in 3D, you better have zombies.

The Invention of Lying came in fourth with $7.35m, which was better than Gervais' Ghost Town but down on similar 'what if' comedies like Liar Liar. Surrogates followed, with a 50% drop on last week, and then was Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story, which expanded to wide release but still made only $4.85m, less even than Sicko nevermind Fahrenheit 9/11 or Bowling for Columbine.

New release Whip It!, about a girl rollerskating team, followed that with a disappointing opening of $4.85m - apparently men didn't want to go see a film about girl sports.

Much further down the charts, the Coens' new film A Serious Man opened on only six screens and took $252,000 - not a bad average by anyone's standards. However, we somehow doubt that the willfully niche film is going to repeat those numbers when it goes national.

For the full charts, head on over to Box Office Mojo.

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