'Funny People' finding its feet
$8.7 million bow Friday fends off "G-Force"
by Gregg Kilday from HollywoodReport
Judd Apatow’s new, more serious comedy “Funny People,” starring Adam Sandler, didn’t exactly kill ‘em at the boxoffice as it opened Friday.
Although number one for the day, the R-rated movie about stand-up comics that also stars Apatow regulars like Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann, collected an estimated $8.7 million in 3,008 theaters in North America.
That puts the Universal release on a path to score a first-weekend gross in the low $20-million range, which would put below Apatow’s last feature “Knocked Up,” which bowed to $30.7 million, and on about the same level as his first film, “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” which debuted to $21.4 million.
Fox’s new release “Aliens in the Attic,” a PG-rated family comedy directed by John Schultz, was even less of a draw. It took in $2.9 million in 3,106 theaters for a fifth-place showing for the day.
Freestyle’s R-rated horror-tale, Marcus Dunstan’s “The Collector,” the weekend’s other new wide release, was running even further back in the pack in eleventh place, grabbing $1.3 milion in 1,325 theaters.
Disney’s “G-Force,” with its rodent-heroes, which commanded the top spot last weekend, shifted to second place on Friday as it pulled in $5.7 million.
Warners’ “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” in its third weekend, was in the third spot as it took in an additional $5.4 million as it moves steadily toward topping the $250 million mark.
Rounding out the top five, Sony’s rom-com “The Ugly Truth,” registered fourth for the day as it took in $4.5 million.
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