Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness
James Cameron's Avatar led the pack at the domestic box office on Monday, with $2.7m, as per Box Office Mojo.
Mel Gibson’s comeback vehicle Edge of Darkness came at a distant second, with $1.31m and a $430 per screen average. The revenge thriller opened with $17.1m, several million dollars below what some had been predicting. Directed by Martin Campbell, Edge of Darkness is Gibson’s first film since M. Night Shyamalan’s 2002 horror/sci-fi Signs.
The Josh Duhamel-Kristen Bell romantic comedy When in Rome, came in third place with $779K and $317 per screen. Denzel Washington's The Book of Eli was #4 with $744K, followed by the supernatural adventure Legion with $625K.
Rounding out the top twelve were Dwayne Johnson's Tooth Fairy ($527K), Robert Downey Jr's Sherlock Holmes ($339K), Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones ($308K), Meryl Streep's It's Complicated ($303K), Sandra Bullock's The Blind Side ($227K), Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel ($220K), and George Clooney's Up in the Air ($201K).
Photo: Edge of Darkness (Warner Bros.)