MOVIES: Real Steel stands strong!

Incredibly Real Steel has finished its second weekend at the box office in the number one slot! I expected Footloose to top Steel this weekend but even though it was close, the boxing robots came out on top with a second weekend take of $16.3 million. Footloose almost took down Steel with an opening weekend of $16.1 million. The Thing creeped into third place and took an impressive $8.7 million. I believe that's impressive because The Thing is not getting great reviews but I think a good amount of people enjoyed the older versions and that's what's putting butts in the seats. The Ides of March took fourth place with $7.5 million and fifth place went to Dolphin Tale which grabbed $6.3 million. Next weekend sees the opening of Paranormal Activity 3 which I think I'm seeing at midnight on Thursday; will it finally be enough to take the belt from Real Steel? We'll see!

MOVIES: Real Steal

Wow, when I saw the first trailer for Real Steel I couldn't believe that someone was actually going to make THAT movie. Like someone came up with the idea for a movie about boxing robots and not only did Hollywood give it the green light, they got Hugh Jackman to be in it. I still have no interest in seeing Real Steel but apparently a lot of people do, $27.3 million worth of people in fact. Steel dominated the box office this weekend with no real contenders to face off against. Second place went to The Ides of March starring Ryan Gosling and George Clooney which took $10.4 million in its opening weekend. Dolphin Tale fell to third place after an incredible opening weekend and grabbed $9.2 million bringing its box office total to $49 million in two weeks. 50/50 came in at fourth place with $5.5 million and Courageous rounded out the top 5 at $4.6 million. 50/50 is the only one I'm really interested in and I'm going to try and get to it tonight. What did you watch this weekend?