Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo, was the #1 movie at the US/Canada box office on Friday (Feb. 26), according to Box Office Mojo. Martin Scorsese’s dark thriller grossed $6.67 million for a total of $59.5 million.
At #2, Kevin Smith's Cop Out, starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, took in less than initial estimates published last night: $5.975 million on its debut ($1,897 per screen). A notch behind it was another new entry, Breck Eisner's horror flick The Crazies, starring Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell, with $5.97 million ($2,411 per screen).
James Cameron’s sci-fi adventure Avatar, starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, and Sigourney Weaver, was #4 with $3.1 million, getting very close to the $700 million mark which it should cross sometime today. At #5, Garry Marshall’s all-star Valentine’s Day took in $2.94 million. The romantic comedy stars Bradley Cooper, Julia Roberts, Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Alba, Anne Hathaway, Taylor Lautner, Eric Dane, Carter Jenkins, Taylor Swift, and many others.
Chris Columbus‘ adventure flick Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, starring Logan Lerman, was #6 with $2.4 million, followed by the Channing Tatum-Amanda Seyfried romantic melodrama Dear John with $1.5 million. Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman, starring Benicio del Toro and Anthony Hopkins, was next with $1.1 million.
Dwayne Johnson’s Tooth Fairy, which always does better on weekends — though it has already lost quite a bit of steam — was #9 with 730K.
Rounding out the top thirteen were Jeff Bridges‘ Crazy Heart ($610K), Sandra Bullock’s blockbuster The Blind Side ($325), the Kristen Bell-Josh Duhamel romantic comedy When in Rome ($315K), and Denzel Washington’s post-apocalyptic drama The Book of Eli ($300K).
Photo: Shutter Island (Andrew Cooper / Paramount)
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