Lions Gate Films' R rated horror genre film Frailty kicked off quietly in a tie for eighth place with an ESTIMATED $4.2 million at 1,497 theaters ($2,806 per theater).
Directed by Bill Paxton, it stars Paxton and Matthew McConaughey.
Rounding out the Top Ten was New Line Cinema's R rated vampire thriller Blade 2, which was fifth a week earlier, in its fourth week with a dull ESTIMATED $4.1 million (-45%) at 2,174 theaters (-387 theaters; $1,886 per theater). Its cume is approximately $73.7 million, heading for $80 million in domestic theaters.
Directed by Guillermo Del Toro, it stars Wesley Snipes.
OTHER OPENINGS
This weekend also saw the arrival of Fine Line Features' R rated comedy Human Nature with an unexciting ESTIMATED $0.31 million at 224 theaters ($1,385 per theater).
Directed by Michael Gondry, it stars Tim Robbins, Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ifans and Miranda Otto.
Lions Gate Films PG-13 rated comedy thriller The Cat's Meow opened to an encouraging ESTIMATED $0.11 million at 11 theaters in New York and Los Angeles ($10,000 per theater).
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich, it stars Kirsten Dunst, Eddie Izzard, Edward Herrmann, Cary Elwes, Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Tilly.
"We'll be expanding Cat's into the Top Ten markets on Apr. 26 and then nationwide on May 3, so we're very optimistic about that," Lions Gate Films president Tom Ortenberg said Sunday.
TriStar's R rated drama New Best Friend arrived to an unfriendly ESTIMATED $27,000 at 100 theaters ($270 per theater).
Directed by Zoe Clarke-Williams, it stars Mia Kirshner, Meredith Monroe, Dominique Swain and Taye Diggs.
SNEAK PREVIEWS
There were no national sneak previews this weekend.
EXPANSIONS
On the expansion front this weekend IFC Films' unrated erotic drama Y Tu Mama Tambien went wider in its fifth week with a less arousing ESTIMATED $1.0 million (-14%) at 194 theaters (+14 theaters; $5,225 per theater). Its cume is approximately $4.5 million.
Directed by Alfonso Cuaron, it stars Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna.
USA Films' R rated romantic comedy Monsoon Wedding added theaters in its eighth week with a still spicy ESTIMATED $0.64 million (-10%) at 162 theaters (+12 theaters; $3,945 per theater). Its cume is approximately $6.2 million.
Directed by Mira Nair, it was produced by Nair and Caroline Baron.
United Artists' reissue of The Last Waltz went wider in its second week via MGM with an ESTIMATED $34,000 at 6 theaters (+5 theaters; $5,725 per theater). Its cume is approximately $69,000.
Directed by Martin Scorsese, Waltz is a musical documentary about the final concert of The Band.