As it turns out, the massive winter storm that blanketed the Northeast with multiple feet of snow didn’t keep audiences from heading to the theaters to check out the Jason Bateman/Melissa McCarthy comedy Identity Thief. The new release managed to top the box office in its first weekend, earning a gigantic $36.6 million. Wonder how critic Rex Ryan feels about that tractor-sized haul.
The weekend’s other wide release, Steven Soderbergh‘s Side Effects, pulled in a respectable $10.015 million, which wasn’t enough to finish immediately behind Identity Thief (last week’s winner Warm Bodies has that honor, with this weekend’s $11.5 million bringing its current tally to $36.6 million), but was enough to finish third in this week’s box office totals.
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Want to know what else got people out of the snow and into the theater? Check out the top 5 films of the weekend:
1. Identity Thief: $36.6 million
2. Warm Bodies: $11.5 million
3. Side Effects: $10.0 million
4. Silver Linings Playbook: $6.9 million
5. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters: $5.75 million
[Photo Credit: Universal Pictures]
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