Weekend Box Office Round-Up: April 15-17, 2011

Rio is Number One at Box Office

The box office results are in, and the top two films couldn’t be more different. In first place is Rio, the animated venture from 20th Century Fox. It earned $40 million over the weekend – a solid showing for a first weekend. Earning just under half of that, at $19.2 million, was Scream 4 in second place. Not bad, but considering most films’ profits drop off considerably after the first weekend, this may be problematic if it had a high budget. Perhaps people weren’t interested in seeing a 4th installment of the horror movie?

In third place was HOP, which sunk from first place last weekend. It earned $11.1 million. In fourth place, Sony’s Soul Surfer brought in $7.4 million. Hanna slipped to fifth place, earning $7.3 million.

In sixth place, the Russell-Brand’ed Arthur earned $6.9 million, and in seventh place, Insidious took home $6.8 million.

8th place goes to Source Code, which earned $6.3 million, and rounding out the top ten were The Conspirator in 9th place and Your Highness in tenth place.

Did anyone see anything this weekend?

Source: http://blog.starcam.com/post/box-office-april-15-17-2011.aspx

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