This weekend there have been many surprises at the US box office as the vast majority of premieres have performed quite poorly, except for the Sony animated film, Rain of Meatballs, which takes No. 1 at the box office with a figure of $ 30,1 million. And it is clear, children rule when going to the movies, if an animated film is well publicized and has a minimum of quality it is very difficult for it to be a failure. Anyway, Rain of Meatballs it will still have to raise much more for Sony to recoup the 100 million it has invested in this production.
Now, let's go to the failures or semi-failures. First, The informer! with Matt Damon, directed by Steven Soderbergh, he debuts in second position but only with 10,5 million dollars. In any case, it is not a bad figure because we are talking about a low budget production (22 million dollars).
The romantic movie love happens with Jennifer Aniston is another that fails entering fourth position with only 8,4 million raised.
But, the biggest failure is for the long-awaited Megan Fox movie, Jennifer's body, which has to settle for fifth place and a cumulative of $ 6,8 million when all predictions pointed to a box office of more than 15 million. But again, we are talking about a cheap production (16 million) so this movie will make quite a bit of money from the international gross with millions of fans waiting to see Megan Fox almost naked.
Of the rest, note that the Tyler Perry film, I can do all by Myself, drops from No. 1 to 3 but adding another 10 million for a total of 37.
The rest of the films, from the 6th to the 10th position, saw their collections drop significantly: 9, All About Steve, Inglourious Basterds, Final Destination 3D and Sonority Row.