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Surprising “Dragon” Incinerates Jennifer Lopez

12:00 pm, April 25th, 2010

BOX OFFICE

(DreamWorks)

UPDATE – 4/25/10 -

As predicted, fifth-week holdover How To Train Your Dragon came back to beat new release The Back-up Plan for the weekend box office crown, according to current estimates.

The animated adventure racked up between $14.5 and $15 million to continue its impressive run.

Meanwhile, the much-hyped Jennifer Lopez romantic comedy opened with roughly $12.3 million for second place, while fellow newcomer The Losers may wind up in fifth place with just $9.3 million, behind Date Night ($10.5 million) and Kick-Ass ($9.5 million).

Gossip Cop will update should the numbers continue to shift.

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Jennifer Lopez is on top of the current weekend box office projections, but might be feeling the competition breathing fire down her neck.

The Back-up Plan, starring Lopez, earned an estimated $4.2 million on Friday to lead the night, but How To Train Your Dragon, the animated flick that’s held up remarkably well for five weeks, earned about $3.6 million and could end up as the #1 flick.

Current projections hand the weekend to Dragon (with about $15.5 million by Sunday night), trailed by The Back-up Plan ($12 million), and holdover Date Night ($10 million).

Action film The Losers is expected to earn roughly $9 million for fourth place, followed by the controversial Kick-Ass at #5.

Again, these are only estimates. Gossip Cop will have updates figures when available.

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  • spinilli

    Ahh too bad. I love romatic comedies and J-Lo’s looked kind of cute. Romatic comedies just don’t do at the box office like they use to. I seldom go to the movies. I’m getting to old. lol But I’ll probably get The Back-up Plan when it comes to pay per view.

  • JoeJonasGirl0676

    I wanna see this movie so bad.

    I used to not like Jennifer Lopez, but she’s okay.

  • Dianne

    Jlo’s movie was a flop. It is expected to make 12.5 million for the weekend. It was released in 3,280 theatres.

    You and the media called Jen Aniston’s The Bounty Hunter a flop when it opened at 20.7 million in 3,118 theatres.

    Why the double standard?

    Why aren’t you quoting Nikki from deadline Hollywood on this one but did on TBH with Aniston?

    http://www.deadline.com/2010/04/jennifer-lopez-joel-silver-pics-both-bomb/

    SATURDAY PM UPDATED: It was a very lackluster weekend for North American grosses and probably will be until the summer movies get going. Tops again, but with the lowest #1 gross so far this year, was the charming but slow-starting How To Train Your Dragon 3D from DreamWorks Animation distributed by Paramount. And it’s the 5th weekend in release… How embarrassing for The Back-Up Plan with its horrible concept. It debuted No. 1 Friday but fell to No. 2 Saturday. J-Lo’s pic is the 2nd straight loser from newcomer CBS Films which kept delaying the release for obvious reasons: because everyone knew Jennifer Lopez can’t open a movie anymore, except Les Moonves. (Sheesh, J-Lo can’t even keep a record label…) Before this, J-Lo’s most recent rom com, May 2005′s Monster-In-Law, opened with $23.1M. Yet Les emails me that he thinks The Back-Up Plan’s $12+M result is “very respectable” and “quite good”. Huh?… And the Warner Bros-distributed The Losers, from Joel Silver’s unsavory Dark Castle, was marketed like a low-rent A-Team — and still it disappointed like most of his pics from that brand. (Please, Joel, put it out of its misery already.) The actioner was only #4 Friday and may have fallen to #5 Saturday behind several holdovers… And Kick-Ass experienced a steep drop after Lionsgate unethically inflated its opening numbers by including last Thursday midnight’s take in order to grab the No. 1 title last weekend. No self-respecting studio does that anymore. But Lionsgate is feeling the heat from Carl Icahn and needed the PR boost… I’ll refine these Top 10 numbers in the morning:

  • spinilli

    It’s not like GC said Jennifer’s movie was going to be #1 or make big money. I’ll still see it when it comes to pay per view. I love romantic comedies. lol

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