{"id":11390,"date":"2011-05-14T15:42:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T20:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=11390"},"modified":"2011-05-14T15:42:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T20:42:54","slug":"bridesmaids-starts-strong-at-box-office-but-thor-set-to-win-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2011\/05\/14\/bridesmaids-starts-strong-at-box-office-but-thor-set-to-win-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bridesmaids&#8221; Starts Strong at Box Office, But &#8220;Thor&#8221; Set to Win Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Bridesmaids,&#8221; the latest well-reviewed comedy in Judd Apatow&#8217;s arsenal, got off to a strong start at the box office Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The raunchy female comedy earned a healthy $7.8 million at the box office Friday, which puts it on track to cross $20 million for the weekend.  Optimistic estimates were looking at the high-teens for the film, so this is definitely a slam dunk opening for fans of female-led comedies.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, even with that strong opening, &#8220;Bridesmaids&#8221; will still fall short of the &#8220;Thor&#8221; tally.  Having earned $9.2 million in its second Friday, &#8220;Thor&#8221; will have no trouble earning in the $30 million range for the whole weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Behind &#8220;Fast Five&#8221; ($5.9 million), &#8220;Priest,&#8221; the other major new opening, landed in fourth on $5.5 million.  Though the tally is not groundbreaking for a 3D film, its projected $13-15 million weekend would still slightly top what many analysts were expecting ahead of Friday&#8217;s debut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Something Borrowed&#8221; landed in fifth place on $2.3 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":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Bridesmaids&quot; Starts Strong at Box Office, But &quot;Thor&quot; Set to Win Weekend<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Bridesmaids,&quot; the latest well-reviewed comedy in Judd Apatow&#039;s arsenal, got off to a strong start at the box office Friday. 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