Et tu, Hugh?
Real Steel, the Hugh Jackman-fronted action flick, KO’d George Clooney’s The Ides of March to win the box office trophy this week. And it wasn’t all that close.
Steel—based partly on Mattel’s game Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots—thumbed its way to $27.3 million, far outdistancing the $10.4 million made by Ides. That said, Steel also was on about 1,250 more screens than Ides, and Clooney’s critically acclaimed political thriller may have some staying power—at least for a week or two. So consider this round one.
Last week’s champ Dolphin Tale sunk to third, but the family-friendly film still managed to gobble up $9.2 million to bring its three-week tally to nearly 50 million smackers. Brad Pitt’s Moneyball made $7.5 million—good enough for fourth place and making it a stellar weekened for People’s “Sexiest Man Alive” winners (Pitt and Clooney have taken the honors twice each, while Jackman snagged the award in 2008).
The cancer comedy 50/50 rounded out the Top 5, earning $5.5 million and edging out the Kendrick brothers’ Courageous (which pocketed another $4.6 million).
The Way, another faith-tinged film about a man (played by Martin Sheen) who walked across Spain to honor his dead son, failed to spark a pilgrimage to theaters. It made just $132,400 on 33 screens—not quite enough to beat out the three-month-old Cowboys & Aliens for 22nd place.
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