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

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Women boost Heaven’s US takings – BBC

[story by Stuart Heritage]