Weekend Receipts: All Hail Our Monkey Overlords -- Or, How Can You Like Them Bananas?

Well, that forms it — America loves apes! Well, a lot more compared to they love Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman and poop jokes. So let’s welcome our new simian masters and celebrate what a few days ago’s box office amounts mean: A) Apes > everything, B) R-ranked comedies need to go the extra mile, and C) so Harrison Ford and Difficulties if they would like to get back the crown from individuals damn, dirty Smurfs. Your weekend box office is here now! 1. Rise from the Planet from the Apes Gross: $54,000,000 (new) Screens: 3,648 (PSA: $14,803) Days: 1 Similar to last weekend’s surprising Smurfs versus. Cowboys & Aliens shake-up, Fox’s primate reboot demonstrated an unexpected contender, handily beating the R-ranked (and abysmally-examined) star-driven The Modification-Up. Whether from strong person to person — especially where Andy Serkis’s mo-assigned, maybe Oscar-worthy performance was concerned — or even the yearning for any good, old-fashioned summer time action yarn, Rise from the Planet from the Apes exceeded pundit anticipation, raking in $19.75M on Friday alone. Performs this mean the Apes could rise again and effectively reboot a brand new franchise series? Our guess: Fight from the Conquest from the Go back to the earth from the Apes, visiting you in 2013. 2. The Smurfs Gross: $21,000,000 ($76,202,000) Screens: 3,395 (PSA: $6,186) Days: 2 (change: -41.%) Cowboys & Aliens might have won last weekend’s box office with a nose, however the Smurfs got their revenge on Difficulties and Harrison Ford within their second week, tugging ahead within the epic, storied struggle between Smurfkind and Mission Impossible/Indiana Johnson having a $21M showing. Which brings Peyo’s little blue masterpieces to some Smurfy $76.6M domestic cume, in comparison to C&A’s $67.3M. 3. Cowboys & Aliens Gross: $15,748,000 ($67,368,000) Screens: 3,754 (PSA: $4,195) Days: 2 (change: -56.8%) Jon Favreau’s genre-blender experienced the greatest drop from Week 1 — but maybe that’s what you'll get for beheading Papa Smurf on tv (Searching to you, Harrison), just a little box office karma coming back ‘round. Or possibly America wised up and considered Movieline’s handy flow chart, discovering that more streets pointed to seeing The Smurfs. In either case, C&A’s still got the worldwide marketplaces to spread out, and Harrison’s huge in Japan. A round of Kirin Lager beer for everybody! 4. The Modification-Up Gross: $13,502,000 (new) Screens: 2,913 (PSA: $4,635) Days: 1 Permit this to be considered a lesson to Hollywood: Poop jokes and Ryan Reynolds’ abs aren’t enough to spread out a film. Neglecting to open within the summer time of Bridesmaids, The Hangover Part II, and Bad Teacher (while making under 1 / 2 of what Buddies with Benefits did in the first weekend, believe it or not), informs you much. And what’s with using a lot CGI nudity within an R-ranked comedy?? The Modification-Up should appear and disappear just like a blip about the summer time movie schedule, showing that even just in the summer time from the adult comedy movies need to have something to provide. 5. Captain America: The Very First Avenger Gross: $13,000,000 ($143,182,000) Screens: 3,620 (PSA: $3,591) Days: 3 (change: -49.1%) A 49.1% drop from a week ago didn’t help Captain America in the box office competition with fellow Marvel super hero pic Thor (Captain_ arrived just $2.2M under Thor’s week three amounts) but don’t lose belief, America! With $100.3M notched to date, Cap’s foreign allies are obtaining the slack. [Amounts via Box Office Mojo]