Stallone durable at box office with “Expendables” (Reuters)
Posted by yangga.8Aug 16
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sylvester Stallone outmuscled Julia Roberts at the weekend box office in North America on Sunday to score the biggest opening of his career with his new film “The Expendables.”
The action hero’s all-star mercenary thriller earned an estimated $35 million across the United States and Canada during its first three days of release, distributor Lionsgate said.
The opening, which was in line with bullish expectations, marks a boost not only for Stallone, who directed and co-wrote the project as well, but also for Lionsgate, whose Lions Gate Entertainment Corp parent is fending off a hostile takeover from investor Carl Icahn.
Julia Roberts, whose career has been almost as cold as Stallone’s in recent years, followed at a distant No. 2 with “Eat Pray Love.” The big-screen adaptation of a bestselling memoir of a woman’s international search for herself, opened with $23.7 million, also in line with expectations.
The female-skewing drama was released by Sony Corp’s Columbia Pictures, which topped the box office last weekend with “The Other Guys.” The Will Ferell cop comedy fell to No. 3 with $18 million, taking its 10-day total to $70.5 million.
Source: movies.yahoo.com
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