Sony is a group of happy campers right now as the $45 million-budgeted 21 Jump Street scored $13.1 million on Friday (including $700,000 from midnight screenings) and will likely end somewhere around $34 million for the weekend. This will mark the second Channing Tatum feature to hit #1 at the 2012 box-office after The Vow and you can pretty much believe he’ll make it three with G.I. Joe: Retaliation on June 29.
In second is last week’s #1 feature, Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax with $6.7 million and a likely $25 million weekend followed by the continued disappointment of John Carter with a meager $4 million on Friday and an expected $13 million weekend, down 57% or so from last weekend’s $30.1 million opening.
Looking over Friday’s top ten, surprises include the complete absence of last week’s new horror film Silent House, which made $6.6 million last weekend, but only managed $726,000 yesterday, and the inclusion of Will Ferrell‘s new Spanish-language comedy Casa de Mi Padre, which managed $760,000 from only 382 theaters.
I’ve included the Friday top ten directly below and will be back on Sunday morning with a complete wrap-up.
- 21 Jump Street – $13.1 million
- Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax – $6.7 million
- John Carter – $4 million
- Project X – $1.5 million
- A Thousand Words – $1.125 million
- Act of Valor – $1.12 million
- Safe House – $816,000
- Casa de Mi Padre – $760,000
- The Vow – $750,000
- This Means War – $745,000
