"Django Unchained" Ousted From First Place on Friday Box Office

Quentin Tarantino's latest opus, Django Unchained, has been doing pretty well at the box office, but it was thrown out of first place last night after Texas Chainsaw 3D took top honors. Chainsaw earned $10.2 million last night, and experts guess it will take the top spot for the weekend and expect it to earn between $21 and $25 million.


It's a surprising move, considering that pre-release, most people thought that The Hobbit, Django Unchained, or Les Mis would take the top spot, with Chainsaw coming in later on the charts.


The new version of the 1974 thriller earned just a C+ on CinemaScore, though horror movies often receive average grades/ratings and sometimes still do well.
Django Unchained earned $6.2 million last night for a domestic total of $92.4 million, and is expected to earn just under $20 million for the weekend. The Hobbit earned $5.2 million, while Les Miserables earned $5 million.

The updated Texas Chainsaw stars Alexandra Daddario, Tania Raymonds, and Scott Eastwood, and was directed by John Luessenhop. It's not merely a remake, though—fans will be pleased to know that the new film picks up where the 1974 version left off. After the original family is left murdered, decades later a woman named Heather learns she's been left an inheritance down in Texas—a mansion—and, well, we think you can guess where this one is going.

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