Monsters and Aliens topped the Boxoffice on the weekend, and ask any squash around here and you will see that wasn’t a big surprise.
DreamWorks Animation’s Monsters vs. Aliens dominated the weekend box office with an estimated $58.2 million from 4,104 theaters for an average of $14,181 per theater. It was the biggest debut so far in 2009, topping the $55.2 million first weekend of Watchmen in early March.
Horror flick Haunting in Connecticut was in a happy second on about two thirds as many theaters. Rounding out the top 3 was last weeks topper Knowing.
I like that they mention how this is an impressive weekend for the film and how it just inched past Watchmen, which people are convinced was a failure. We know it wasn’t, just interesting to see how people’s perspectives call it a flop because it didn’t rake in $150m.
I still have no interest in seeing this movie, but I might rent it for the kids.
Did you go see this?
