Zac Efron, welcome to true moviestardom.
Despite featuring a plot that didn’t involve large choreographed dance numbers or anyone breaking into song, 17 Again easily topped the box office with $24 million. (As I predicted last week, that’s just about exactly what another surprise teen hit, Mean Girls, also made.)
Coming in at a distant second was the journalism thriller State of Play, which despite a solid cast made a mediocre $14 million. That’s roughly what the last mature-adult-skewing drama, Duplicity, also made. These types of dramas typically have better staying power than average, so with solid reviews, expect State of Play to climb slightly past $40 million.
Both of last week’s films, Hannah Montana: The Movie and Observe and Report fell by over 60% (largely thanks to inflated grosses from last week’s Good Friday holiday). That’s fine for Hannah but bad news for Report, which got off to a weak start to begin with.
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