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The Weekend Box Office Results 4/05/09

The first weekend in April was swept away by “Fast and Furious“. Where the heck did that come from?!?

Making a clean sweep in the number one spot with a cool $72,508,000 take home in the charts, “Fast and Furious” blew the competition away.

The movie stars Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto, Paul Walker as Brian O’Conner, Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto, and Michelle Rodriguez as Letty.

Coming in second place this weekend was last week’s top dog, “Monsters Vs. Aliens“, with $33,510,000. Third place in the chart belonged to “The Haunting In Connecticut” with a nice $9,550,000.

Fourth place was held by “Knowing“, which happens to be the creepiest movie I’ve ever seen. It took home $8,130,000. Rounding off fifth place was “I Love You, Man“, with $7,850,000.

Here’s the “Fast and Furious” trailer:

Wow. Who knew that this movie would be on top? I seriously thought it would be a dud and “Knowing” might creep into the top slot.

According to IMDB, the movie centers around Brian O’Conner as he teams up with Dominic Toretto, after being released from prison. The two of them work with the feds to bring down a heroin importer by infiltrating his operation. All that and fast cars, too?

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The Weekend Box Office Results 3/29/09

Roberta @ Gone Hollywood

Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen, and Hugh Laurie really took home the box office gold this weekend with their new cartoon movie, “Monsters Vs. Aliens“. The movie brought in a whopping $58,200,000 in it’s first week on the charts.

Rainn Wilson stars as the voice of Gallaxhar, an alien who lands on Earth and wants to take it over. The military decides to send in the monsters to take him out.

The movie has an all-star cast: Will Arnett as The Missing Link, Kiefer Sutherland as General W.R. Monger, Reese Witherspoon as Susan Murphy/Ginormica, Hugh Laurie as Dr. Cockroach, Seth Rogen as B.O.B., Paul Rudd as Derek Dietl, Stephen Colbert as President Hathaway, Amy Poehler as the voice of the computer, Renee Zellweger as Katie, and John Krasinski as Cuthbert.

Rounding out the top five box office contenders this weekend were “The Haunting In Connecticut” in the second spot with $23,010,000, “Knowing” in third place with $14,705,000, “I Love You, Man” taking fourth place with $12,600,000, and finally, “Duplicity” bringing in $7,556,000.

Here’s the trailer for Monsters Vs. Aliens: