Did you do something special with your significant other this weekend? Give them flowers? Chocolates? A new crescent wrench?
Or did you celebrate Valentine’s Day like much of America apparently did, and buy your sweetie … some movie tickets?
A trio of new films dominated the box office this weekend, bumping poor ol’ Avatar to fourth place. Appropriately enough, the star-studded film Valentine’s Dayruled the romantic roost, pocketing $52.4 million, according to Box Office Mojo—enough to buy about 1.2 million hefty boxes of chocolates from Godiva Chocolatier, in case you’re curious. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief came in second with $31.2 million, nudging out The Wolfman‘s $30.6 million.
Adam Holz, who reviewed Valentine’s Day for Plugged In, wasn’t too impressed with the flick, calling it a feel-good movie that obscured some pretty serious moral problems. Other reviewers were equally unimpressed. But that didn’t stop a tide of folks from flooding the theaters to see the thing. The film did so well, in fact, that its makers are probably wondering right now whether there might be a market for a celebrity-laden film called St. Patrick’s Day.
But while romance might’ve conquered the weekend, all three newcomers had pretty good takes. Which makes me wonder … did you plunk down your cash to go to Valentine’s Day? Did you see something else? Or did you just stay home, like I did, and watch the Olympics?
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