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Box Office Mojo has a smart analysis of This Means War’s box office. The numbers say: it’s actually not a bad debut at all — thanks to female movie-goers. Hmm. I wonder if this has anything to do with Mr. Tom Hardy’s effect on ovaries.     Box Office Mojo— Weekend Report     This Means War took fifth place with an estimated $17.55 million. That’s an okay start given the mediocre track record of rom-com/action hybrids like Knight & Day($20.1 million), The Tourist ($16.5 million) and Killers($15.8 million). Of course, it was no Mr. & Mrs. Smith($50.3 million), but realistically what chance does Chris Pine, Tom Hardy and Reese Witherspoon have of matching up against Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie? Considering the unexpectedly strong competition from The Vow and the movie’s miserable reviews, this isn’t a bad debut at all. The audience was predominantly female (65 percent) and a bit older (60 percent were 25 years of age and older), and the movie received a very solid “A-” CinemaScore.  ADD: Thanks largely to No. 1 premieres in Russia ($5.8 million from 1,049 screens), Australia ($3.1 million from 338 sites), 20th Century Fox’s This Means War opened offshore to $11 million drawn from 1,963 spots in 16 territories. (It ranked second on the weekend overall.) That was “a very promising beginning considering only two of the top 10 international markets released this past weekend,” as per Fox. The romantic comedy … also opened No. 1 in Hong Kong. /hollywoodreporter.com

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Box Office Mojo has a smart analysis of This Means War’s box office. The numbers say: it’s actually not a bad debut at all — thanks to female movie-goers.

Hmm. I wonder if this has anything to do with Mr. Tom Hardy’s effect on ovaries. 

  

Box Office Mojo—

Weekend Report 

  

This Means War took fifth place with an estimated $17.55 million. That’s an okay start given the mediocre track record of rom-com/action hybrids like Knight & Day($20.1 million), The Tourist ($16.5 million) and Killers($15.8 million). Of course, it was no Mr. & Mrs. Smith($50.3 million), but realistically what chance does Chris Pine, Tom Hardy and Reese Witherspoon have of matching up against Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie? Considering the unexpectedly strong competition from The Vow and the movie’s miserable reviews, this isn’t a bad debut at all. The audience was predominantly female (65 percent) and a bit older (60 percent were 25 years of age and older), and the movie received a very solid “A-” CinemaScore. 

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Thanks largely to No. 1 premieres in Russia ($5.8 million from 1,049 screens), Australia ($3.1 million from 338 sites), 20th Century Fox’s This Means War opened offshore to $11 million drawn from 1,963 spots in 16 territories. (It ranked second on the weekend overall.)

That was “a very promising beginning considering only two of the top 10 international markets released this past weekend,” as per Fox. The romantic comedy … also opened No. 1 in Hong Kong. /hollywoodreporter.com