Box-Office Wrap-Up: Feb. 25 – Feb. 27, 2011

And Laremy’s predicted #1 lands in the #2 slot as the Farrelly brothers’ newest comedy failed to perform. Reviews were unkind and the audience obviously wasn’t too interested. I can only wonder what this will do for the brothers’ future, I assume 20th Century Fox will be taking a much closer look at that Three Stooges script before giving it the official greenlight. Then again, Fox will make damn near anything so maybe it won’t even matter.

On the user prediction side of things, Laremy’s Oracle article went up very late on Thursday so it looks like John PT may run the board. His $12.9 million prediction here was also the best of the bunch.

Unknown dropped 43.1% from its #1 opening last week, which really isn’t all that bad. Personally I didn’t enjoy it all that much, but obviously word of mouth isn’t too terrible as a few must be recommending it.

Adam Sandler’s Just Go With It is now at $79 million. With another $21 million to go will it become Sandler’s 12th film to cross the century mark domestically?

Sporting a budget of $60 million it’s hard to believe $37 million in the first two weeks is going to be enough to spawn that sequel I would like to see. And no matter how well it does overseas, just remembering the overseas totals for films such as The Golden Compass and Eragon tell me that doesn’t factor into the equation too much.

The director’s cut hit theaters this weekend and the Bieber pic only dropped 30%. The film’s director, John Chu, was also just named the director of G.I. Joe 2 essentially telling us all to expect another installment in Joe franchise made for non-discerning children.

$114 million and counting and a PG-13 cut is on the way so you can take everyone in the family to go see The King’s Speech after it wins the Best Picture Oscar tonight. Speaking of which, have you placed your votes in my Oscar poll? If not, click here and get on it. I’ll be closing the polls shortly.

I have nothing to say here. The fact people are paying to see this saddens me a little.

Wowsers. Look at the demise of Summit’s Drive Angry. I don’t think there is any blaming the actors or director on this one. I think 3D ticket prices alone killed the chances of this film making any money and it may be the start of the downfall of the use of 3D for non-tentpole films. I suspect people aren’t interested for paying good money for a bad movie in the first place, and paying even more money for a bad movie is even less enticing.

As far as user predictions go, no one was less than $10 million on this one so no one gets the cookie.

Yup, this was in theaters and some people paid to see. Here ends my comments on this movie.