The 300 spoof movie Meet the Spartans took the box office crown this weekend, just barely edging out the latest Rambo for first place. Still, Rambo's numbers are encouraging to studio heads, who appear to be "thinking about reviving Rambo as a franchise." According to Variety, Harvey Weinstein remarked, "Based on these numbers, there should be another one."
Meanwhile, 27 Dresses and Cloverfield swapped places, with Dresses coming out ahead in third place. Cloverfield suffered a decrease in sales of over 68% — maybe news got around about the movie's camera work making audiences vomit. Newbie Untraceable followed up just behind Cloverfield in fifth place, knocking Juno out of the top five for the first time in many weeks.
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you know - i'm not really suprised that Rambo didn't come out as #1, but that's pretty impressive i guess for a #2 release. especially since the fan base of the movie is older - and well...it's been a LONG time since there was a rambo movie. now talks of reviving the franchise - that's a bit much i think.
as for the 27 dresses cloverfield thing - i was going to see cloverfield...but thought that the camera thing would make me nauseas too. not something that i'm looking forward to.