Dade Hayes of Variety writes in 'Bucket List' tops box office:
Star power carried the day this weekend as Warner Bros.’ “The Bucket List”...with an estimated bow of $19.5 million, edging Sony/Screen Gems’ “First Sunday.”
It’s the best opening weekend ever for director Rob Reiner, and the Jack Nicholson-Morgan Freeman road tripper notched the top January debut in Warner Bros. history. Warners captured four of the top eight spots, with “I Am Legend,” “P.S. I Love You” and “One Missed Call” all holding well.
“First Sunday,” a comedy starring Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan, finished with $19 million, at the top end of projections.
Fox Searchlight’s “Juno” came in third with $14 million. While a strike-muted Golden Globes event Sunday won’t give the teen pregnancy pic the kind of boost it would normally get in awards season, its cume is still an eye-popping $71.2 million.
That’s better than “Little Miss Sunshine” and on Monday the distrib projects it will eclipse “Sideways” to become the top-grossing Searchlight title ever.
Focus Features’ “Atonement,” another specialty notable, finished at No. 10 with $4.3 million, edging out parent company Universal’s “Charlie Wilson’s War.”
The cume for “Atonement” is $25.2 million.
U’s G-rated “The Pirates that Don’t Do Anything: A Veggietales Movie,” one of two other wide bows along with “Bucket,” pulled in $4.4 million.
“In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale,” a vidgame adaptation that opened wide via Freestyle Releasing, but finished well out of the top 10...
Joshua Rich of Entertainment Weekly:
Defying expectations, ''The Bucket List'' surged to the top of the box office and held off strong challenges from ''First Sunday'' and ''Juno''
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Jack and Morgan should savor their win while they can...With Cloverfield set for Friday...I'm pretty sure the "Bucket's gonna get kicked next week...
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