"Holy s**t Leo, we're number one!"
Don’t take my review for it, many people wanted to get spooked this weekend as Shutter Island cruised to an easy box office win this weekend, more than doubling its next closest competition. The $40 million weekend is by far the best in Martin Scorsese‘s career, and it marks a new record for Leonardo DiCaprio, as well; a great beginning for a movie shelved for nearly half a year.
Soon to face off with Shutter will be Alice in Wonderland (March 5th) and next week Cop Out (this looks really just awful) and The Crazies (next week). Anyway, the lack of audience for the other movies propelled Avatar back into third place. Its $16 million weekend is its slowest, and now that we know the DVD is due in two months, we can begin to see the finish line for this one, just short of $750 million domestic and $2.5 billion world wide.
Tags: box office, leonardo dicaprio, martin scorsese, shutter island
