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Despite being hyped by its evil corporate owner AEG, Michael Jackson's This Is It only earned a decent-but-hardly-great $21.3M at the box office this weekend. It was enough to win the weekend, though Paranormal Activity made a strong charge at second place ($16.5M | $84.7M). After that it was all hold-overs. The unusually robust Law Abiding Citizen continued to do well ($7.3M | $51.3M) as did the moderately funny Couples Retreat ($6M | $86.6M). The vile and stupid Saw VI rounded out the top 5 with $5.5M ($22.8M).
The second half of the top 10 was kicked off by the fantastic, fantastical Where the Wild Things Are ($5M | $61.8M). It was followed by the dull The Stepfather ($3.4M | $24.7M), the dull Astro Boy ($3M | $10.8M) and the, uh, dull Amelia ($3M | $8.3M). The well-intentioned failure Cirque du Freak rounded out the top 10 ($2.8M | $10.5M). In limited release, neither Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day ($6794 per theater) nor Gentlemen Broncos ($5000 per) were able to make much of a dent at the box office.
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Ummm...This Is It is actually already up to $101M in 5 days worldwide. Don't hate.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33577272/ns/entertainment-movies/
The only folks who don't think This Is It disappointed are the marketing departments at Sony and AEG and Michael Jackson's weirdo fans.
http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/so-if-this-is-it-is-such-a-success-why-cant-sony-aeg-reimburse-l-a-taxpayers-for-that-6-mil-michael-jackson-tribute-cost/
http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/sony-extends-2-week-limited-run-of-michael-jacksons-this-is-it-through-thanksgiving/
http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/halloween-horror-michael-jacksons-this-is-it-still-disappoints-with-7-8m-friday-paranormal-activity-expands-for-6m/
P.S. Considering that AEG's original prediction of week-one worldwide box-office was $250 million, $100 million is a HUGE disappointment.
http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/how-big-is-big-aeg-privately-predicting-michael-jackson-pic-will-make-250m-in-first-5-days/
So glad that the Bio-porn flopped. AEG can suck it.
considering it's basically a Special Interest film, those are good numbers.
and I saw the film and was impressed. if you're going to criticize, why not focus on the content instead of industry buzz?