The box office battle between R-rated newcomers “Ted” and “Magic Mike” was close on Friday, but by weekend’s end, “Ted” stands alone as the clear winner.<\/p>\n
Not expected to resonate well with Saturday date crowds, “Mike” was excessively frontloaded, earning roughly half of its $39.1 million gross on Friday. That enabled “Ted,” which had a more typical weekend trajectory, to easily claim first place on $54.1 million in receipts.<\/p>\n
Still, the female-skewing “Magic Mike” managed to crush $20-25 million projections, and no one will be shedding tears over such an impressive total.<\/p>\n
Both new releases obliterated forecasts, which kept holdover “Brave” from contending for the top spot. Still, at $34 million, “Brave” performed reasonably well this weekend and topped the $100 million milestone by Friday.<\/p>\n
“Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection” performed slightly better than expected, scoring an also-impressive $26.4 million. That gave it the clean edge over fifth place finisher “Madagascar 3” ($11.8 million).<\/p>\n
“People Like Us,” the only other major new release, garnered just $4.3 million, emerging as the weekend’s sole disappointment. It finished in tenth.<\/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":[],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n