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Real Steel Dances Past Footloose for #1

11:16 am, October 16th, 2011

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Hugh Jackman‘s Real Steel, once again, knocks out the competition with a weekend take of $16.3 million, just ahead of the Julianne Hough-Kenny Wormald Footloose remake, which earned $16.1 million.

Coming in a distant third was the horror film, The Thing, which made $8.7 million in ticket sales.

The George Clooney-Ryan Gosling political drama The Ides of March and Dolphin Tale came in fourth and fifth places with $7.5 million and $6.3 million, respectively.

Rounding out the Top 10 were Moneyball ($5.5 million), 50/50 ($4.3 million), Courageous ($3.4 million), The Big Year ($3.3 million) – whose stars (Steve Martin, Jack Black, Owen Wilson) couldn’t save it from flopping, and The Lion King ($2.7 million).

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  • http://twitter.com/Nathiest Nathiest

    I’ve already seen Footloose. It came out years ago.

  • fakerbuster

    umm its a new version of it, and apparently its actually good , u know cause remakes can sometimes be good right? lol

  • meenakitten

    A cult classic made into a honky-tonk hick film cannot be good.

  • THING

    wanna see terror? WATCH THE THING

  • Regina1180

    Isn’t The Thing a remake too? Are there any new ideas in Hollywood?

  • Anonymous

    No, there are no new ideas in Hollywood. The people-in-charge are too afraid to take a chance on an unknown screenwriter so they continue to spit out this drivel and hope some of it becomes a hit. “Footloose” probably earned more money than any of them expected so that means we will probably have a “Footloose2″ pretty soon.

  • jen

    I was hoping Footloose would flop. (Is $16 million good or bad? I guess it depends on what they were expecting.) I still can’t believe they remade a classic. I refuse to see it.

    I went and saw The Big Year. It was actually pretty good. Not as funny as the commercials made it seem. But I really enjoyed it. I think they should have done a better job marketing it. I liked having a good clean fun film to go to. I want more like that.

  • jen

    I was hoping Footloose would flop. (Is $16 million good or bad? I guess it depends on what they were expecting.) I still can’t believe they remade a classic. I refuse to see it.

    I went and saw The Big Year. It was actually pretty good. Not as funny as the commercials made it seem. But I really enjoyed it. I think they should have done a better job marketing it. I liked having a good clean fun film to go to. I want more like that.

  • Jules

    Real Steel was better than I expected!! was gonna watch 50/50 but the boyfriend wanted this show and I have to admit, I really liked it. So much more than fighting and the robots were cooool :D

  • Ali

    I agree with Jules…Real Steel was so much better than I expected it to be! There’s an actual story line AND some cool robot fights! Go see it!!

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