Cowboys VS Aliens and Smurfs movie - Odd Box Office Tie

[disneyboy20022]

http://news.yahoo.com/cowboys-aliens-sm ... 53246.html

Little blue Smurfs and not-so-little green men from space are in a photo finish for the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office.

Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford's sci-fi Western "Cowboys & Aliens" and the family adventure "The Smurfs" both opened with $36.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

That leaves Sony's "Smurfs" and Universal's "Cowboys & Aliens" tied for the top spot. Figuring out the No. 1 movie will have to wait until final numbers are counted Monday.

"In all my years, I've never really seen a race this close," said Paul Dergarabedian, an analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com. "Generally, in the world of movie box office, $1 million is a close call, so to have two films in a dollar-to-dollar tie is somewhat unprecedented."

Studios often round off their Sunday numbers, which include Friday and Saturday totals plus an estimate of Sunday business based on how similar movies have done in the past.

So Sunday figures typically are rounded off to the nearest $50,000 or $100,000, with more accurate, to-the-dollar numbers generally coming in Monday's final tally.

[PixarFan2006]

How that Smurf movie made any money is beyond me,

[toonaspie]

How that Smurf movie made any money is beyond me,

Considering that the Chipmunk Sequel became a massive box office hit, anything's possible in this messed up society.

[TheValentineBros]

Yep, just kids watching yet another crappy film. Not trying to be harsh or anything, but I feel sorry for the kids that watch shit like the Smurfs movie.

[zackisthewalrus]

The fact that "The Smurfs" made more money in its opening weekend than "Winnie the Pooh" has made in its entire run so far is really disappointing to me. I don't understand the fascination with these crappy adaptations of classic TV shows. It's ridiculous.

[TheValentineBros]

Which is the reason why America is spending money on watching shit like this.

[dvdjunkie]

Makes you wonder what the parents are thinking when they let their kids go so garbage like the "Smurf" movie. They actually had to edit seven minutes from it to get the PG rating, so that tells you what kind of humor they were going for.

I personally went to see "Cowboys & Aliens" and thought it was more bang for my buck than a lot of movies I have seen over the past few weeks.

Let's see the second weekend number on these two films and see who the true number one is.