Box Office: top five

Box Office: top five

Think Like a Man defends its top spot at the US Box Office and assertively begins the slow theatre weekend of April 27 to 29, 2012. It is followed by Zac Efron’s drama, The Lucky One which bagged $3.9 million in Friday earnings along with weekend’s projection
set at $11.5 million. Emily Blunt and Jason Segal’s The Five-Year Engagement landed behind the Luck One. It was followed by Linsgate’s most grossing film, “The Hunger Games”, who fell down at number four. The Pirates: Bands of Misfits rounded the top five.

Think Like a Man follows four friends who conspire to turn the tables on their women after they found their ladies are using Steve Harvey’s relationship advice against them. The movie received mixed reviews and ratings but secured the top spot at the Box
Office. 

Zac Efron/Taylor Schilling’s romantic drama, The Lucky One, received drastic reviews in the revie aggregator site, Rotten Tomatoes. It received a rotten rating of 20 per cent based on 109 critics. However, the $25 million budget movie stayed on the second
spot for the second week of its release. 

However, critics were kinder for The Five-Year Engagement, a romantic comedy which stars Jason Segal and Nicholas Stoller. It received a 6.7 rating at IMDB and gained better reviews. 

Peter Rainer, a top film critic of the Christian Science Monitor, gave it a rating of B and stated, “What keeps the film from seeming shrill is that Tom and Violet, despite everything, genuinely love each other, and their careers dilemma is not played for
easy laughs.”

Jennifer Lawrence’s The Hunger Games’ impressive run of topping the Box Office ended last week but it stayed in the top five in the fifth week from its release. The movie which broke several records and became the highest grossing film of Lionsgate, bagged
an estimated of $10 million this week. 

The fifth place at the Box Office was occupied by the animated movie, The Pirates! Band of Misfits. It scored best ratings in contrast with the other top five movies at the review aggregator site, Rotten Tomatoes. 

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