{"id":16517,"date":"2013-03-17T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T14:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=16517"},"modified":"2013-05-13T23:49:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T23:49:25","slug":"wwes-the-call-overperforms-at-box-office-tops-burt-wonderstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/03\/17\/wwes-the-call-overperforms-at-box-office-tops-burt-wonderstone\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE&#8217;s &#8220;The Call&#8221; Overperforms at Box Office, Tops &#8220;Burt Wonderstone&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As far as the WWE Universe goes, the tag team of Halle Berry and David Otunga is far more imposing than that of Colin Farrell and Wade Barrett.<\/p>\n<p>A week after its co-distribution effort &#8220;Dead Man Down,&#8221; which starred Farrell and featured a small role for Barrett, flopped comes a breath of fresh air regarding its movie strategy.  Its &#8220;The Call&#8221; co-distribution, featuring Berry and Otunga, overperformed with an impressive $17.1 million in box office receipts this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>As far as WWE-backed theatrical releases go, &#8220;The Call&#8221; is the first film to clearly overperform.  Estimates leading into the weekend forecast a bow in the low-teens.<\/p>\n<p>Its impressive tally was nothing compared to that of weekend winner &#8220;Oz&#8221; (down 47% to $42.2 million in its second weekend) but easily enough to beat third-place finisher &#8220;The Incredible Burt Wonderstone.&#8221;  The Steve Carell-Jim Carrey comedy missed projections with just $10.3 million in returns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jack the Giant Slayer&#8221; ($6.2 million) and &#8220;Identity Thief&#8221; ($4.5 million) completed the top five.<\/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":[3,10],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WWE&#039;s &quot;The Call&quot; Overperforms at Box Office, Tops &quot;Burt Wonderstone&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As far as the WWE Universe goes, the tag team of Halle Berry and David Otunga is far more imposing than that of Colin Farrell and Wade Barrett. 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