islandclaws

1. Battle: Los Angeles (Sony) NEW [3,417 Theaters]
Friday $13.5, Estimated Weekend $39M

2. Rango (Paramount) Week 2 [3,923 Theaters]
Friday $5.5M (-43%), Estimated Weekend $23.5M, Estimated Cume $69M

3. Red Riding Hood (Warner Bros) NEW [3,030 Theaters]
Friday $5.7M, Estimated Weekend $15.1M

4. The Adjustment Bureau (MRC/Universal) Week 2 [2,847 Theaters]
Friday $3.4M (-48%), Estimated Weekend $11M, Estimated Cume $38.2M

5. Mars Needs Moms (Imagemovers/Disney) NEW [3,117 Theaters]
Friday $1.8, Estimated Weekend $7.5M

6. Beastly (CBS Films/Sony) Week 2 [1,959 Theaters]
Friday $1.6M (-52%), Estimated Weekend $5M, Estimated Cume $17M

7. Hall Pass (New Line/Warner Bros) Week 3 [2,555 Theaters]
Friday $1.5M, Estimated Weekend $5M, Estimated Cume $34.8M

8. Just Go With It (Sony) Week 5 [2,398 Theaters]
Friday $1.2M, Estimated Weekend $4M, Estimated Cume $94M

9. The King's Speech (The Weinstein Co) Week 16 [1,768 Theaters]
Friday $1M, Estimated Weekend $3.5M, Estimated Cume $129M

10. Unknown (Dark Castle/Warner Bros) Week 4 ( [2,303 Theaters]
Friday $975K, Estimated Weekend $3.5M, Estimated Cume $58.4M

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I haven't seen an animated Disney film flop that bad in... actually, have any started this bad?

Battle: LA looks right on par with what I'd expect it to do. I'm more amazed anyone would spend money on Red Riding Hood.

onebyone

Holy hell, Mars Needs Moms tanked something fierce. I didn't think that it would be huge, but never would've guessed it would be that bad. Its budge was $150 million. That's gotta hurt.

rexinnih

Ouch for Mars.

MrSmearkase

Imagine what Mars Needs Moms would've made without IMAX and 3D

Matthew Chmiel

According to Deadline, the (terrible) first screening of Mars Needs Moms for Disney brass is why Imagemovers got killed by the company.

Good riddance. Fuck Robert Zemeckis and his motion capture shitfests.

Labor

Mars needs Moms just looks creepy

Zemeckis is just scarily behind the curve on this mocap stuff, despite being one of the first guys to really champion it.

Giles

the weekend ain't over yet, cool to see 'Rango' still hanging in at #2

Supermallet

Mars Needs Moms is awful and I'm happy to see it tank. I think there was a grand total of 30 people who came to see it at my IMAX all day yesterday. Really pathetic showing.

Giles

I think though most theater managers with IMAX screens are glad to finally get rid of 'I Am Number 4' - thankfully it's a quick turnover to the next IMAX release 'Sucker Punch'

Supermallet

I Am Number 4 opened bigger than Mars Needs Moms did. And at least it was 2D so it was easier for me to thread.

Giles

guess you're glad that Sucker Punch is NOT being released in 3D

Supermallet

Very! Although I think it will continue our streak of showing bad movies.

islandclaws

I though Sucker Punch was 3D? Not that I'm complaining since I won't see it either way.

Jay G.

Ignoring the Ghibli films Disney has released domestically, both Pooh's Heffalump Movie and Valiant opened in 2005 to about $6 million.

http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/series/BuenaVista.php

jaeufraser

Of course, if you added the production budgets, marketing budgets, DVD manufacturing costs, oh hell basically anything they spent on those movies...combined...it would still probably cost less than Mars Needs Moms.

fitprod

Zach Snyder shot it down after the Clash of the Titans debacle.

fitprod

Charlie Goose

I guess famous names really DO matter in Disney animation. MNM only has Seth Green and Joan Cusack.

jaeufraser

I wouldn't say that...it's not like Tangled had any particularly famous names either.

islandclaws

Seth Green only did the mo-cap work, too. His voice was dubbed over for the release.

Supermallet

It couldn't have anything to do with the film being terrible and all the trailers being annoying as hell or anything.

Roybq

I think this is the first Disney film in a long time that my family didn't want to see on opening weekend. We saw the trailers and agreed pretty much together that it was a pass.

starman9000

I just went to Tangled and the theater was packed, do these things make much of their "cheap theater" runs?

islandclaws

Once they hit discount theaters it can add a good $1m or so depending on the title.

Deftones

that's not what he said on Conan a last week. He said that was the plan initially, but they ended up using his voice afterall.

Perkinsun Dzees