US Weekend Box Office Chart - ‘Just Like Heaven’ Number One

Perhaps the reason that nobody goes to the cinema anymore is that blockbuster movies are mostly aimed at blokes.

Blokes just don’t want to spend two hours watching a car chase when they could play San Andreas and shoot a bazooka at a traffic jam and then pop a bullet in a policeman’s knee in five minutes. But if you make a girly boo-hoo film, every single woman on the planet wants to go and see it.

That’s what happened with Just Like Heaven, a girly boo-hoo ghosty love flick. Not only is it top of the US weekend box office chart, but 77% of the audiences were women.

Just Like Heaven could possibly be the girliest film ever. It’s
about Reese Witherspoon the ghost (DVDs) who falls in love with Mark Ruffalo
the non-ghost man. Cuh, that old story again. Here’s this week’s full
US weekend box office chart…

1 - Just Like Heaven (Can a man and a ghost have sex? Watch and find out) $16,500,000

2 - The Exorcism Of Emily Rose (A courtroom drama with a slightly misleading title) $15,300,000

3 - Lord Of War (That’s better, a man’s title! Lord! War! Um, Of!) $9,200,000

4 - The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Watch a man piss in his own face out of his erect penis!) $5,847,000

5 - Cry Wolf (Jon Bon Jovi in a teen slasher film? Fingers crossed he gets graphically murdered near the beginning) $4,551,000

6 - Transporter 2 (Possibly the last gasp of Jason Statham’s career before Revolver kicks it dead) $4,025,000

7 - The Constant Gardener (Disappointingly doesn’t feature much horticulture) $3,695,000

8 - Red Eye (A man dips his contacts lenses in vinegar and then sandpapers his eyes) $2,900,000

9 - March Of The Penguins (The best film about a penguin walking around ever!) $2,555,000

10 - Wedding Crashers (According to the amount of money it’s taken,
Wedding Crashers is better than Gone With The Wind, and worse than Rush
Hour 2) $2,525,000

Read more:

Women boost Heaven’s US takings - BBC

[story by Stuart Heritage]