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Weekend B.O. - 10,000 B.C. Stomps Field
Posted by Michael Avila on 03/ 9/08 at 02:49 PM

It's weekends like this that make you wonder how many people pay attention to what the critics say.

Despite some of the worst reviews for a big-budget film in recent memory, "10,000 B.C." took top honors at the weekend box office with more than $35 million. Just about everyone's giving the credit for the solid-but-not-spectacular debut to Warner Bros.' marketing team for the way they pitched the film as a prehistoric epic -- not the unintentionally funny fiasco it really is.

Read about the rest of the Weekend Top 5 after the jump.

Equally awful reviews didn't keep "College Road Trip" from earning $14M. I guess Disney was smart to make sure the Martin Lawrence film had a G rating to ensure Raven Symone's fans from her Disney Channel show would come out this weekend.

In third place was "Vantage Point," which despite terrible (I''m running out of adjectives) reviews keeps earning respectable cash (another $7.5M this weekend) and in fourth, Will Ferrell's disappointing "Semi-Pro" with $5.9M.

Bringing up the rear is "The Bank Job," with a decent $5.7M. Jason Statham's most seriously dramatic work was the only film in the Top 5 with positive write-ups.


  
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