Takers takes over box office

By Alexandra Heilbron on August 30, 2010 | 4 Comments


Although early counts showed the new horror film The Last Exorcism as the top movie at the weekend box office, the final count shows that another new release, Takers, was the top movie in North America with $20.5 million and a Tribute Viewer Rating of 3 out of 5 stars.

The Last Exorcism was close behind with $20.4 million and a Tribute Viewer Rating of 2.5 stars. 

Last weekend’s top film The Expendables dropped to third place, earning an additional $9.5 million and a Tribute Viewer rating of 4 out of 5 stars.

Julia RobertsEat Pray Love dropped a spot to fourth, taking in $6.8 million and earning a Tribute Viewer Rating of 3.7 stars.

Rounding out the top five again was the action comedy The Other Guys, starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, with an additional $6.3 million in receipts (Tribute Viewer Rating 3.4 stars) for a four-week total of $99 million, just short of the coveted $100 million mark.

The Canadian box office showed very different standings for the above movies. The Last Exorcism was the top movie with $1.2 million, while The Expendables was close behind with $1.15 million. Eat Pray Love was third with $880,000. Takers landed in fourth place with $828,748. The Other Guys was the only movie to be in the same spot as it held in the American numbers — fifth, earning $629,017.



Comments & Discussion

  1. Thibz • August 30, 2010 @ 10:35 AM

    By saying this movie was a hit do they mean it was really good?? or that it was a money maker. I think this word “hit” should be used to describe a good movie not a money maker.

  2. Kim • August 30, 2010 @ 2:24 PM

    “Hit movie” always mean box office (i.e., popular with audiences). There are a lot of good movies that were never “hits.” Besides, “good” is relative. Everyone has different tastes, so what I think is good is probably not what you think is good. Box office popularity is a statistic, it’s not formed by opinion.

  3. Scott • August 30, 2010 @ 6:48 PM

    Yeah, it’s unfortunate that “hit” refers to $$ and not quality. I did, however, see this film when it premiered in Toronto at the After Dark Film Festival and I gotta say, I was really, really impressed. They didn’t try to be “The Exorcist”, it was a very emotional human story with a supernatural twist. The trailers make it out to seem like it’s another generic girl-in-a-nightie-exorcism flick, but I was happily surprised by the outcome. Kudos to Eli Roth and all involved!

  4. C-Dub • August 30, 2010 @ 8:16 PM

    BUT a hit can also equate into a decent movie, not just box office receipts. See Avatar. Half the world saw that movie and saw it again and again.. Or is that when they start using bigger words like Blockbuster or worldwide phenominon when too many people seem to like the movie? Meh, either way this seems to hav ebeen another big year for movie ‘hits’.


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