Water for Elephants Box Office Info

Der Film scheint einen guten Start hingelegt zu haben. Platz 1 am Osterwochenende belegt jedenfalls 'Rio' (??) Platz 2: Madea's Big Happy Family (???) Platz 3: 'Water for Elephants'

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Returning champ Rio holds off strong performances by Tyler Perry and Robert Pattinson to win the Easter Weekend box office.

The animated bird tale earned $26.5 million for the top spot, followed by Madea’s Big Happy Family, which was a close second with $26.1 million.

Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon’s Water For Elephants came in third with $17.6 million.

Und wie E!Online berichtet hat der Film einen besseren Start hingelegt als erwartet, bezogen auf das Genre! Und im Vergleich zu Remember Me, Rob's erstem 'Solo-Filmprojekt' nach der Twilight Saga sowieso...

So, how'd the Reese Witherspoon thing work out for him--and Water for Elephants?

So far, so good.

The $40 million romantic drama, based on Sara Gruen's no-clowing-around novel of circus life in the 1930s, debuted with an estimated $17.5 million. The Friday-Sunday take was a bit bigger than expected for the film—and for the genre.

"Adult films usually don't sprint out of the gate. We did," Fox exec Bert Livingston told us in an email today. "I think being on bestseller list twice helped."

For Pattinson, the opening marks a step up from his last non-Twilight movie, Remember Me, which opened to $8.1 million last year.