Another very soft weekend box office will fall in favor of “Contagion,” the only new film to make any sort of splash this weekend.
The star-studded “Contagion” opened to $8 million Friday, which should put it on track to cross $20 million by the end of the weekend. That trajectory is exactly as was expected for the well-reviewed thriller.
Even though it is finally showing signs of slowing down, “The Help,” at just $2.7 million Friday, still claimed second place and should carry that on for the weekend. It outpaced new release “Warrior” (a soft $1.8 million despite glowing reviews), “The Debt” ($1.4 million) and “Columbiana” ($1.2 million).
One curious about new release “Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star” would have to go all the way down to the twelfth position on the chart. The abysmally-reviewed release garnered just $540,000 Friday.
