6:35AM STV | Smokin‘: Those early estimates that pegged
Pineapple Express for a superb $US10 million Wednesday opening may have turned out to be conservative. Another box-office observer sends word that the year’s biggest stoner comedy/
Franco-sex-appeal testimonial in fact raked in $US12.15 million in its first day — a fairly staggering figure for an R-rated comedy. Bowing on a Wednesday.
In the first week of August. The revised tracking also suggests
Express has enough momentum to wrest box-office superiority from
The Dark Knight this weekend, but we’re not so sure: The same tracking suggested
The Mummy 3 would have similar success last weekend (
it didn’t), and in any case,
Express will need all of its five-day numbers — as much as $US45 million by some estimates — just to beat
Dark Knight’s three-day figure. Check out tomorrow morning’s
Defamer Attractions column, where we’ll call our official shot. [
Fantasy Moguls]
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