Game Winners

Disney's Game Plan to defeat The Kingdom worked like a charm as the family film easily took the top spot over the weekend.

Brandon Gray of Box Office Mojo:

Family comedy The Game Plan scored an estimated $22.7 million over the weekend, beating out action movie The Kingdom…

The Rock And Madison Pettis

Pamela McClintock of Variety:

Disney had the winning game at the weekend box office, with family laffer "The Game Plan" easily grabbing the keys to the castle from Universal's Middle Eastern geopolitical drama "The Kingdom."

"Game Plan," toplining Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and sporting a kid-friendly PG rating, exceeded expectations in grossing an estimated $22.7 million from 3,103 runs.

Director Peter Berg's R-rated "Kingdom" grossed an estimated $17.7 million from 2,793 runs. Film stars Jaime Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman.

Two pics got off to a close race on Friday, but all bets were off as "Game Plan" saw a whopping 63% jump from Friday to Saturday, compared to a 16% bump for "Kingdom."

Weekend's other wide opening, MGM-Lakeshore's "The Feast of Love," struggled to cook up an aud, grossing an estimated $1.7 million from 1,200 runs. Pic couldn't crack the top 10, coming in No. 11.

On the specialty side, comedy also ruled, with Fox Searchlight and Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited" nabbing the highest per-screen average of the year at $70,000. Pic, starring Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman and Adrien Brody, grossed $140,000 from two runs in Gotham on Saturday and Sunday after opening the New York Film Festival on Friday.

But there also was plenty of interest in Ang Lee and Focus Features' erotic period pic "Lust, Caution," which grossed an estimated $61,688 from an exclusive run in Gotham. Film, rated NC-17, nabbed one of the best per screen averages ever for an exclusive opening, as well as for a foreign language film...

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Joshua Rich of Entertainment Weekly:

The Rock's turn as a father-out-of-water helps the family-friendly comedy win out over the mostly-R-rated competition...

Two more reasons to celebrate:

--20 years ago this week, Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered in syndication, lasting 7 seasons--178 episodes--and spawning 4 feature films...



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