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Possession Casts Spell With $21M Opening

Shia LaBeouf's 'Lawless' comes in second

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 3, 2012 4:50 PM CDT

(Newser) – Forgotten for much of the summer, horror fans flocked to Possession and gave it the second-best Labor Day opening ever at $21.3 million, says The Hollywood Reporter. The Prohibition-era shoot-em-up Lawless took second with $13 million. The anti-Obama doc 2016: Obama's America came in ninth ($7.3 million), while indie kid flick The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure crashed at $601,545, and the phone sex laffer For a Good Time Call bowed on 23 screens at $186,077.

This film image released by The Weinstein Company shows Shia LaBeouf, left, and Mia Wasikowska in a scene from Lawless.
This film image released by The Weinstein Company shows Shia LaBeouf, left, and Mia Wasikowska in a scene from "Lawless."   (AP Photo/The Weinstein Company, Richard Foreman, Jr.)
This image released by Lionsgate Pictures shows Madison Davenport, left, and Kyra Sedgwick in a scene from The Possession.
This image released by Lionsgate Pictures shows Madison Davenport, left, and Kyra Sedgwick in a scene from "The Possession."   (AP Photo/Lionsgate, Diyah Pera)
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Coolface
Sep 3, 2012 6:56 PM CDT
Might want to revise the article there, Neal. $601 is the average cume per theater for the Oogieloves, not total for the weekend. It was somewhere around $800,000 for the 5 days it was in release, which is still the worst ever.
Seth_Meyers
Sep 3, 2012 6:35 PM CDT
"Lawless" was so full of use of the tobacco drug that we walked out and got our money back. Shia La Poof is a terrible actor, anyway.

 
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