Loading ...Top 10 Genre Movies: 17 Again debuts in top spot
Teen heart-throb Zac Efron's latest film, the light fantasy comedy 17 Again pulled in enough teen greenbacks to finish in the top spot in this past weekend's box office. . It brought in more than $24 million in ticket sales in its debut- weekend - almost more than the next two top-grossing films combined.
The only sci fi flick to debut this weekend was the Spanish-language Sleep Dealer, whichwas shown only an a hanful of theatres in Los Angeles and New York. It debuted at No. 10 on the genre movie list and No. 37 overall with just over $30 thousand.
The sole genre film set to debut next week: The Mutant Chronicles also is set for a limited release befire going to DVD and a broadcast TV debut on the Sci Fi Channel later this summer.
Following are the Top 10 speculative fiction movies in release in North America for the weekend of April 17-19 , 2009.
RANK #. (Overall Rank) Title - Weekend Gross | Total Gross [Budget]
- (1) 17 Again - $24 milllion | $24 million [N/A]
- (3) Monsters vs. Aliens - $13 million | 163 million [$175 million]
- (8) Knowing - $3.4 million | $74 million [N/A]
- (10) The Haunting in Connecticut - $3.2 million | $52 million [N/A]
- (11) Dragonball Evolution - $1.6 million | $7.8 million [N/A]
- (15) Race to Witch Mountain - $0.7 million | $64 million [N/A]
- (23) Coraline - $0.2 million | $75 million [N/A]
- (26) Push- $0.09 million | $32 million [$38 million]
- optical channel(30) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - $0.06 million | $127.5 million [$150 million]
- (37) Sleep Dealer - $0.03 million | $0.03 million [N/A]
Source: Box Office Mojo - list only includes science fiction, spy fi, fantasy and dark fantasy/horror titles.
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