Weekend Box Office Numbers Oct 1st-3rd

By: Robert Acosta

The first week of October brough us a highly anticipated and well received film in The Social Network and the release of a foreign horror movie but of course, Americanized!

Lets take a look at this past weekends box office numbers:

1. The Social Network   $23 Million
2. Legend of the Guardians: Owls of Ga'hoole   $10.9 Million
3. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps   $10.1 Million
4. The Town   $10 Million
5. Easy A   $7 Million
6. You Again   $5.6 Million
7. Case 39   $5.4 Million
8. Let Me In   $5.3 Million
9. Devil   $3.7 Million
10. Alpha and Omega  $3 Million

The box office numbers are overall much better than last weeks numbers. Last week we saw the bottom two movies stand in with $1 Million dollar numbers, which in a top 10 for the box office numbers are not good.

The Social Network obviously came in at number 1 with an underwhelming $23 Million dollars. For such a hyped movie, those numbers don't indicate anything good. Were people on the fence about this movie so they were waiting for word of mouth to be good before catching the movie? We'll see if that's true next week.

The rest of the top 10 isn't too strong with the the runner up to the top spot at just under $11 million. I think movie goers are starting to understand how not worth it is to go to the theater. The prices are way too high, concession stand prices are way too high and the wait for these movies coming out on DVD or on demand on TV are becoming shorter and shorter. You would think theaters and the associations that handle these prices would realize that by looking at these box office numbers but, just as many people think, they are ignorant.

Next week looks no better than this week. Look for The Social Network to take the top spot again while the limited releases get a lot of credit and good word of mouth, hopefully.