I mean who else saw this movie?

Yeah, I guess Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson are still popular with the young teenage crowd to some degree with roles in BATMAN and THE DEPARTED respectively but I still can’t imagine the young generation flocking to see this old farts movie. The one that you would skip if you stumbled across it on t.v. because you know exactly where it’s headed, with few laughs or surprises on the way.

It must have been the old timers, who have relished their opportunity to see a movie that appeals to them.

Nicholson and Freeman’s first ever on screen pairing in veteran helmer Rob Reiner’s THE BUCKET LIST took home $19.5 million when it went wide this weekend after a limited run which brought many scathing reviews. Including mine which you can read HERE.

The younger crowd chose Ice Cube’s star vehicle FIRST SUNDAY, which took home just $0.5 million less and if it wasn’t for the fact it was playing on 700 screens fewer than THE BUCKET LIST, it would surely have come out on top, despite it being worst reviewed than the cancer movie.

Amazingly in third place JUNO dropped only 12% of it’s audience, adding another $14 million to it’s highly impressive $71.2 million gross. Still it’s never enjoyed a weekend at the top and this was the chance for it to do so.

Elsewhere I AM LEGEND is now the 6th highest grossing film of 2007 with a $240 million haul ($458 million worldwide), ONE MISSED CALL dropped a massive 50% to a $6.1 million weekend. P.S. I LOVE YOU’S slow release strategy has worked to a treat as it’s now taken $47 million and won out over the weekend on SWEENEY TODD ($44 million) and CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR ($59.4 million) which both dropped outside the top ten.

And finally Uwe Boll’s latest feature DUNGEON CRAP: IN SEARCH OF SOME TALENT or whatever it was called grossed only $3.3 million and finished outside of the top ten despite it being one of the wider released movies of the weekend.

source - coming soon, imdb