Weekend Wrap-Up: The Rock's Game Plan Takes the Crown

No no no no no no no! How does this happen? How does a movie matching up the Rock with a kewt wittle girl in a pink tutu earn $22.7 million? Are people really so amused by the prospect of a male actually raising a child that they'll pay nine bucks plus popcorn to boggle at it? Or, is it that folk are so astonished by the concept -- because, as we all know, the male of the species behaving in a maternal way is never, ever observed in the wild, and when it is, it is hilarious -- that they simply must observe it in action?

Gosh, it's like that whole feminism thing never even happened.

How I so wish that Laremy's Friday prediction had been accurate: he thought The Game Plan would tank and the riveting thriller The Kingdom would win the weekend. Alas, the Jamie Foxx flick came in at the No. 2 position, taking in $17.7 million, which has got to be a disappointment to all involved. I know it hurts me to see a smart and up-to-the-moment movie like this one shoved aside by unpleasantly retro junk like Game Plan.

At No. 3 this weekend was Resident Evil: Extinction, earning a scant $8 million. Just as I predicted last Monday, this stinker dropped like a rock in its second weekend, falling more than 66 percent. Good Luck Chuck, at No. 4, also plummeted almost 54 percent to take in $6.3 million. But 3:10 to Yuma is still hanging on, losing only 32 percent of its business compared to last Friday-through-Sunday to make $4.2 million. Good on audiences for not letting this riveting revisionist Western get away.

But look at these numbers: Wes Anderson's new flick, The Darjeeling Limited, opened on two screens on Saturday, so it didn't even have any Friday business at all ... and it came away with a whopping per-screen average of $70,000. And Ang Lee's Lust, Caution was close behind, earning $61,700 on the one screen it debuted on this weekend. The Game Plan's per-screen? $7,307. Take that, tutu girl.

[Box office numbers via Box Office Mojo.]

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