“Battle: Los Angeles”‘ box office victory surprised no one this weekend, making the colossal failure of “Mars Needs Moms” the real news story.<\/p>\n
Budgeted at $150 million according to Deadline, the animated film earned only $6.8 million at the weekend box office. An all-time box office disaster, the film was only good for fifth place in its weekend debut.<\/p>\n
“Battle: LA” led the weekend with $36 million, topping the $23.1 million for “Rango.” New release “Red Riding Hood” followed with a lukewarm $14.1 million, edging well-reviewed “The Adjustment Bureau” ($11.5 million).<\/p>\n
Weekend Top Ten:<\/b>
\n1) Battle: LA – $36 million
\n2) Rango – $23.1 million ($68.7 million)
\n3) Red Riding Hood – $14.1 million
\n4) Adjustment Bureau – $11.5 million ($38.5 million)
\n5) Mars Needs Moms – $6.8 million
\n6) Hall Pass – $5.1 million ($34.9 million)
\n7) Beastly – $5.1 million ($17.0 million)
\n8) Just Go With It – $4 million ($94.0 million)
\n9) The King’s Speech – $3.6 million ($129.1 million)
\n10) Gnomeo & Juliet – $3.5 million ($89.0 million)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n