Pineapple Express Sets Wednesday Box Office Record for August

Sony’s R-rated stoner comedy "Pineapple Express" lit up the box office
on Wednesday, grossing $12.1 million from 3,072 theaters to toke on the
best Wednesday opening ever for August.

Girl favorite "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" also enjoyed a
sterling midweek bow, grossing $5.7 million from 2,667 runs, according
to Rentrak. The Warner Bros. and Alcon Entertainment sequel is well on
its way to eclipsing the $9.8 opening weekend gross of the first
"Sisterhood."

For the first time in its run, Warner’s "The Dark Knight" came in No. 3
for the day, behind "Pineapple Express" and "Sisterhood."

The Batman sequel still showed a spectacular hold in its 20th day in
release, grossing $5 million from 4,128 theaters for a domestic cume of
$410.8 million.

"Pineapple Express" easily blew by the $8.9 million earned by "The
Princess Diaries 2," the previous record holdover for best Wednesday
opening in August. Whether "Pineapple Express" can roll enough coin to
beat "Dark Knight" for the weekend itself is now the question.

"Pineapple’s" opening-day gross of $12.1 million virtually matches the
$12.3 million earned by Judd Apatow-produced "Superbad" on its first
day in August 2007; the difference is that Sony’s "Superbad" opened on
a Friday. "Pineapple’s" Wednesday performance came in ahead of
expectations.

Starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, "Pineapple Express" is the second
R-rated comedy produced by Apatow to enter the market in under two
weeks, after Sony’s Will Ferrell-John C. Reilly starrer "Step Brothers."

"Step Brothers" fell to No. 6 on Wednesday, declining 23% from the day
before to $1.9 million from 3,109 runs. That’s a bigger day-over-day
decline than the other films in the top 10 saw on Wednesday, suggesting
that "Pineapple" is taking a bite out of its aud. Cume on "Step
Brothers" is $70.2 million.

U’s "Mamma Mia!" dropped only 5% to $2.3 million (cume: $94 million),
while "Dark Knight" declined 10%. U’s "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon
Emperor" placed No. 4 on Wednesday, grossing $3.2 million from 3,760
for a cume of $51.7 million in its first five days in release.

While "Mamma Mia!" — coming in No. 5 on Wednesday — continues to
benefit from female attention among all age groups, "Sisterhood"
appeals to teen girls and tweens. Sequel, also produced by Denise Di
Novi, reunited the cast from the original film, America Ferrera, Alexis
Bledel, Amber Tamblyn and Blake Lively.

In the time since the first "Sisterhood" was in theaters, both Ferrera and Lively have become stars of hit TV shows.

The first "Sisterhood" pic, released on a Wednesday in early June 2005,
grossed $2.1 million on its first day on its way to cuming $39 million
domestically.

On the foreign front, "The Mummy:Tomb of the Dragon Emporer" should remain the dominant player

following an impressive $61 million launch weekend in 27 markets. The
actioner's heading into two dozen additional territories, including
France, Germany, Scandinavia, Taiwan and the U.K. Three days of weekday
biz gave "Emporer" a foreign cume of $80.6 million, led by $17 million
each from Russia and South Korea. "The Dark Knight" will also keep
international biz humming after grossing $38 million from 51 holdover
territories last weekend to cross the $200 million mark in foreign
grosses -- well above the final offshore cumes of the five previous
Batpics. "Knight" swoops into South Korea and

Spain this weekend -- the same markets in which Disney's "Wall-E"
opens. The Pixar toon's still early in its foreign run with
international cume at about $100 million from two dozen territories.
Sony's going day-and-date with "Pineapple Express" in Australia, but
won't open the stoner comedy in Europe until the fall. U's "Mamma Mia!"
continues to impress overseas with foreign cume hitting $155 million
from 22 markets as of Wednesday, led by a jaw-dropping $70 million in
the U.K. It's launching in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Other
launches include "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" in Poland, "Prom Night" in
Mexico, "X-Files: I Want to Believe" in Holland and Mexico and "You
Don't Mess With the Zohan" in Holland.

Can't wait to see that looks hella funny.

looks gay....

dude shit looks mad funny lol just for the laughs u go and see it... same with tropic thunder... wanna see em both

DJ UnReaL wrote:looks gay....

Shit looks dope my dude. Looks like it's gonna be funny as hell that one movie..shit wasit it called...that fake ass army movie with Ben Stiller (spell name right?) that SHIT LOOKS HELLA GAY!

dude have u seen the trailer besides on TV for tropic thunder with ben stiller.... u have to see the trailer in the movie theaters they show like before they play step brothers or any other rated r movie......
wow... shit is so fuckin funny

Yeah i seen em iono that one just looks wack but then again Ben is tha only funnny dude in that movie to me. Jack black omg i wanna fuck that dude up so bad!

lol u know who's ass i wanna kick? the dude that played 2 face in the new batman
i wanna punch him in his eye dude

lmao that dude with tha butt chin lol yeah he was annoyin for some reason!

lmfao yeah his john travolta lookin ass... i hated him because of the character he played... a FAGG!
so idk... his face man... you seen step brothers? The catelina wine mixer where the guy tells will ferrall that its just his face?
Yeah... thats how i feel

Fly Spitta wrote:i wanna fuck that dude

EWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!





jk

good one good one......

lawl...........

Had me double checkin posts and shit

Heard this was funnier than Step Brothers, gotta see it

nawww space chimps blows these too movies away.....

DJ UnReaL wrote:nawww space chimps blows these too movies away.....

that was a joke Ko0L...that movie is madd gay.....

3.7/10 lmao!!!

hes precise with the 3.7 and shit LMAO