Variety reports the top movies, in terms of box office take, for the week of 8-14 April 2011. Hop held on to the top spot on the charts, finding $25.0 million, for a two-week total of $71.4 million. We’re still not sure if it qualifies (see this review and give us your opinion), but bad-ass Hanna opened at #2, slaying $16.0 million. Comedy remake Arthur and feel-good drama Soul Surfer opened at #3 and #4. Natalie Portman’s newest flick, medieval comedy Your Highness opened at #5, making $12.1 million. Insidious slipped from #3 to #6, taking in $11.8 million, for a two-week total of $29.1 million. Source Code fell from #2 to #7, arresting $11.1 million, for a two-week total of $30.7 million. Limitless slipped from #4 to #8, earning $7.2 million, for a four-week total of $65.9 million.
Rango slipped from #8 to #11, rounding up $2.8 million, for a six-week total of $118.1 million. Paul slipped from #9 to #13, spiriting away $2.3 million, for a four-week total of $35.6 million. Battle: Los Angeles slipped from #10 to #14, shooting up $2.0 million, for a five-week total of $81.7 million. The Adjustment Bureau fell from #11 to #18, arranging $1.1 million, for a six-week total of $60.4 million. Red Riding Hood fell from #12 to #21, gobbling up $650 thousand, for a five-week total of $36.8 million. Beastly fell from #16 to #25, making $350 thousand, for a six-week total of $27.4 million.
Falling out of the top 25 this week were:
Gnomeo & Juliet (last week’s #19) in its ninth week in release (box office total: $97.4 million)
Mars Needs Moms (last week’s #20) in its fifth week in release (box office total: $20.7 million)
Tangled (last week’s #21) in its twentieth week in release (box office total: $199.5 million)