A Nightmare on Elm Street topped the box office this weekend earning an estimated $32.2 million. We will have a full report tomorrow -- plus we wrap-up our Best Death Tournament!
1. A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) $32,205,000
2. How to Train Your Dragon $10,825,000 ($192,385,000)
3. Date Night $7,600,000 ($73,627,000)
4. The Back-Up Plan $7,240,000 ($22,950,000)
5. Furry Vengeance $6,500,000
6. The Losers $6,000,000 ($18,125,000)
7. Clash of the Titans (2010) $5,980,000 ($154,036,000)
8. Kick-Ass $4,450,000 ($42,160,000)
9. Death at a Funeral (2010) $4,000,000 ($34,777,000)
10. Oceans $2,600,000 ($13,500,000)
Box office report by Brandon Gray of Box Office Mojo
Burning through one of the most front-loaded opening weekends on record, A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) boiled atop the box office with an estimated $32.2 million on approximately 4,700 screens at 3,332 sites. Beneath Freddy's latest resurrection, Furry Vengeance got razed in its debut, but the holdovers couldn't pick up enough slack for an up weekend: overall business was down around 11 percent from the late April weekend last year.
The Nightmare on Elm Street remake saw greater initial attendance than Halloween (2007), and it was a personal best for Freddy Krueger in a solo outing. It even out-grossed the entire runs of the first, second, fifth and seventh Nightmare movies (albeit not in terms of tickets sold). The debut was also a new horror high for either April or May, surpassing The Amityville Horror (2005), and it ranked seventh overall for the month of April.
The new Nightmare, though, delivered a lower opening body count than Friday the 13th (2009), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Freddy Vs. Jason. The Friday the 13th remake, which was from the same producer as Nightmare (Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes banner), nabbed $40.6 million on its first weekend and rapidly bled out to a $65 million final.
Friday accounted for nearly 48 percent of Friday the 13th's weekend gross, but Nightmare had an even greater Friday cut: it made $15.8 million or over 49 percent of its weekend on Friday alone, ranking fifth on the all time list of most Friday-loaded first weekends, behind only Saw VI, the Twilight movies and Hannah Montana The Movie. Further indicating the rabidity of Freddy's followers, the picture boasted the horror midnight opening record with $1.6 million at 1,000 sites.
this movie is one of the best movies live today .poeple need to make more movies like this
yep you got that right
sad movie.... of COURSE its gonna make #1 one... everyone LOVES freddy! i havent been to the movies in THREE YEARS... but i spent the stupid money to go BECAUSE it was freddy! BUT ... my goodness.. my sister and i were SO disapointed... this movie was TERRIBLE... that freddy didnt do the original ANY justice as ALL! sorry wes. [poor guy... =(
sorry anonymous that movie was not sad at all
I must also say that after watching Never Sleep Again i feel like i use to feel about the Elm Street series and i realize why i felt so weird and sad watching this reboot.
sorry just like i said to the other one honey that was not scary at all so sorry
ohhh yeah, #1 Baby. . . I know it wasn't an amazing film but, like Hov said, "Men lie, Women lie, Number's don't"
honey that shit was spooky