Jason Voorhees is back and in a big way. Sometime tomorrow, in an executive office on the Warner Bros. lot, talk will be of making a sequel to Friday the 13th ASAP: the remake of the 1980s slasher franchise had an explosive opening weekend, netting approximately $42.2 million dollars over the Valentine's Day weekend. It's the fifth biggest opening for a February release ever.
That $42 million opening is better than the combined box office gross of the original Friday the 13th ($39.7 million, earned in 1980) and even bigger than the $36 million Freddy vs. Jason made six years back. The movie also made the biggest opening ever for a horror remake, eclipsing The Grudge and Rob Zombie's Halloween. When all is said and done the new Ft13th could end its theatrical run around $100 million.
Warner's also had the second highest film, the romantic comedy He's Just Not That Into You, which fell just 29% from last week's opening. Still, there are two stand-outs on the top ten in terms of staying power: 20th Century Fox's Taken, which managed to only fall 6% in ticket sales from last week (it's total gross is now $77.9 m) and Focus Features' Coraline which took a tiny tumble down 9% from what it made 7 days ago. Taken is proving to have great legs and is becoming a much-needed hit for Fox while Coraline's small dip in its second week might be the encouragement Universal/Focus needs to give the greenlight for a second stop motion feature from Laika, Coraline's creators.
Not even the grizzled mug of Clive Owen nor Naomi Watts' pursed lips could prevent Sony's thriller The International from opening in seventh spot with a disappointing $10 million in ticket sales.
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