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'Warm Bodies' Sizzle at the Box Office

Warm Bodies heats things up this weekend at the box office bringing in $8.7 million in its Friday premiere alone. With numbers like that Summit’s Zombie rom-com is right on target for its projected $20 million in sales for the weekend. Which is not bad, considering most of the population will be sitting in front of a television screen instead of a theater screen come Sunday.

Warm Bodies pretty much trampled its big name competition including the Sylvester Stallone thriller flick Bullet to the Head, which according to BoxOfficeMoJo.com brought in around $1.7 million on its opening night. Also, the comedy Stand Up Guys, boasting the likes of Christopher Walken and Al Pacino, didn’t even manage to reach the $1 million mark.

With past successes in other zombie flicks including 2009’s Zombieland and the 2004 British cult-classic Shaun of the Dead making the top 10 on IMDB’s Top 100 Zombie Films and TV Series, it’s fair to say that audiences love the undead. We will just have to see if the zombie love continues over the weekend.

Check out the full box office results list below (box office mojo) …

 

Weekend Box Office Estimates
(Estimates)

Saturday
2/2

1 Warm Bodies (Summit Entertainment)

$7,580,000

2 Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters (Paramount)

$2,923,000

3 Silver Linings Playbook (Weinstein Company)

$2,422,000

4 Mama (Universal)

$2,300,000

5 Bullet To The Head (Warner Bros.)

$1,735,000

6 Zero Dark Thirty (Sony / Columbia)

$1,625,000

7 PARKER (Filmdistrict)

$1,067,000

8 Django Unchained (Weinstein Company)

$919,000

9 Les Miserables (2012) (Universal)

$730,000

10 Lincoln (Buena Vista)

$694,000

11 Gangster Squad (Warner Bros.)

$635,000

12 Movie 43 (Relativity)

$600,000

13 Argo (Warner Bros.)

$580,000

14 Stand Up Guys (Lionsgate)

$528,000

15 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Warner Bros.)

$500,000

16 Life Of Pi (Fox)

$500,000

17 Broken City (Fox)

$480,000

18 A Haunted House (Open Road Films)

$466,000

19 Parental Guidance (Fox)

$400,000

20 Quartet (Weinstein Company)

$323,000

 

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