Monday, April 4, 2011

Weekend Box Office Ranking (USA) April 1/3 new #1 Hop #2 Source Code #3 Insidious



1     (new)     Hop / Youtube
Directed by Tim Hill and starring Russell Brand, James Marsden, Kaley Cuoco, Gary Cole, Elizabeth Perkins, Hugh Laurie - E.B. is the teenage son of the Easter Bunny, and on the eve of taking over the family business, he leaves for Hollywood in pursuit of his dream of becoming a drummer.   (Universal Pictures)
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    (new)     Source Code / Youtube
Directed by Duncan Jones and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Arden - When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. In an assignment unlike any he's ever known, he learns he's part of a government experiment called the "Source Code," a program that enables him to cross over into another man's identity in the last 8 minutes...   (Summit Entertainment, LLC)
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    (new)      Insidious / Youtube
Directed by James Wan and starring Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne - Shortly after moving, a family discovers that dark spirits have possessed their home and that their son has inexplicably fallen into a coma. Trying to escape the haunting and save their son, they move again only to discover that it was not their house that was haunted.   (FilmDistrict)
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4     (1)     Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules / Youtube
Directed by David Bowers and starring Zachary Gordon, Steve Zahn, Rachael Harris, Devon Bostick, Robert Capron - Greg is back with problems new and old. Greg chronicles a hilarious litany of problems, alternating between home and school, focusing this time on the particular punishments of his reprobate older brother, Rodrick. Whether Greg is suffering on the swim team or trying out for the K-12 school talent show as Magician's Assistant to a First Grader, his escapades are united by his struggle to avoid...     (20th Century Fox Distribution)   
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5     (3)     Limitless / Youtube
Directed by Neil Burger and starring Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel, Johnny Whitworth, Andrew Howard - Aspiring author Eddie Morra's life changes when an old friend introduces him to NZT, a new drug that lets him tap his full potential.   (Relativity Media)
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6     (4)     The Lincoln Lawyer / Youtube
Directed by Brad Furman and starring Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Phillippe, Marisa Tomei, William H. Macy     Ted Minton, Laurence Mason - Mickey Haller is a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln sedan. Haller has spent most of his career defending garden-variety criminals, until he lands the case of his career: defending Louis Roulet, a Beverly Hills playboy accused of rape and attempted murder. But the seemingly straightforward case suddenly develops into a deadly game of survival for Haller.   (Lionsgate)
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7     (2)     Sucker Punch / Youtube
Directed by Zack Snyder and starring Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Jamie Chung, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm - A young girl's dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality  (Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution)
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8     (5)     Rango  Youtube 
Directed by Gore Verbinski and starring (the voices) Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Ned Beatty, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy  -  Rango is a sheltered chameleon living as an ordinary family pet facing a major identity crisis. After all, how high can you aim when your whole purpose in life is to blend in? When Rango accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt -- a lawless outpost populated by the desert's most wily and whimsical creatures -- the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt... until he starts to become the hero he once only pretended to be.  (Paramount Pictures)
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9     (6)     Paul / Youtube
Directed by Greg Mottola and starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader - For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. For reasons unknown, the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town -- a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy and Clive Gollings. Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive...  (Universal Pictures)
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10     (7)     Battle Los Angeles / Youtube
Directed by Jonathan Liebesman and starring Aaron Eckhart, Bridget Moynahan, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Pena, Adetokumboh M Cormack - For years, there have been documented cases of UFO sightings around the world -- Buenos Aires, Seoul, France, Germany, China. But in 2011, what were once just sightings will become a terrifying reality when Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world's great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It's up to a Marine staff...    (Sony Pictures Releasing)
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last week´s ranking in brackets








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