Box Office: Cloverfield Puts Up Monster Numbers
Converting on months of Internet hype in the way
Snakes on a Plane couldn't,
Cloverfield topped the weekend box office with $41 million, besting
Star Wars: Special Edition's 11-year-old record for a January debut. (
Watch the Cloverfield trailer here.)
Katherine Heigl's
27 Dresses was not a bride but a bridesmaid, coming in second with $22.4 mil.
Rounding out the top five were
The Bucket List ($15.2 mil),
Juno ($10.3 mil) and
National Treasure 2 ($8.1 mil).
Mad Money reaped anything but, stealing just $7.7 mil to land at No. 7.
What's your take on any of the new releases? Already we've had at least one reader email us about needing to step out for an "illness" break during
Cloverfield, thanks to the jittery camerawork. And while
27 Dresses was stood up by many critics, filmgoers really seemed to RSVP.
