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Box Office Results April 3-5: Fast And Furious Races to Number 1!
Paul Walker and Vin Diesel throw the throttle down in their new film ‘Fast And Furious’ and race their way straight to the top spot at the box office. ‘Fast And Furious’ opened with a huge $72.5 million dollars, the largest opening for a F&F film (2Fast 2Furious opened with $50 million).The other film opening this weekend was the Greg Mottola’s ‘Adventureland’, a coming of age comedy set at an amusemnet park in Pittsburgh. ‘Sunshine Cleaning’ , a comdey staring Amy Adams and Emily Blunt, was expanded to wide release and manage to scrub their way up to the tenth spot at the box office. Here is how the rest of this weekends films stacked up:
- Fast And Furious                                                 $72,508,000
- Monsters Vs. Aliens                                            $33,510,000
- The Haunting In Conneticut                            $ 9,550,000
- Knowing                                                                   $ 8,130,000
- I Love You Man                                                    $ 7,850,000
- Adventureland                                                      $ 6,010,000
- Duplicity                                                                   $ 4,300,000
- Race To Witch Mountain                                   $ 3,351,000
- 12 Rounds                                                                $ 2,300,000
- Sunshine Cleaning                                                $ 1,879,000
Walker and Diesel may want to check the rear-view mirror…The law is coming. Seth Rogan in his version of mall-cop in ‘Observe and Report’ next weekend. Early festival reviews are hailing ‘Observe and Report’ as the funniest film of 2009 and will surely make a bid for the top spot next weekend. The kids will also have a say in next week’s numbers with the second film from Disney star Miley Cyrus ‘Hanna Montana  The Movie’ opening. Looks to be a busy weekend at the theaters…See You There!
It must also be pointed out that Fast & Furious made more this weekend than Tokyo Drift made in it’s entire theater release in the US. Pretty shocking numbers. Definitely awesome that the movie is seeing such success after so long.
Adam Sandler in the Water Boy is my absolute favorite Adam Sandler movie