Inception, Friday Box Office | featured news

Steve Carell comedy opens at No. 1 with $8.4 million, followed by "Inception's" $8.2 million and "Salt's" third place, $5.9 million showing.

FRIDAY 9:45 PM: Sources just gave me these very early box office numbers for today. I'll refine them when I post my analysis:
1 - Dinner For Schmucks (Paramount)
$8.5M Friday, $24M Est Weekend
2 - Inception (Warner Bros)
$8M Friday, $27M Est Weekend
3 - Salt (Sony)
$5.6M Friday, $18M Est Weekend

Angelina Jolie's "Salt" gave "Inception" a run for its money with a $12.7 mil debut Friday versus "Inception's" $13.2 daily tally.

Leonardo DiCaprio's "Inception" is anything but a sleeper as the thriller opened big with $60.4 million and a No. 1 finish at the weekend boxoffice.

Christopher Nolan is having a fantastic Saturday. Jerry Bruckheimer is not. For the Dark Knight director scored over $21 million on Friday for his original, mind-bending film Inception. (That includes the $3 million brought in from the opening midnight shows.) The Leonardo DiCaprio-starrer, from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures, could now earn $60 million for its three-day opening frame. That’s quite a contrast to The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Disney’s failed attempt to recreate the magic of The National Treasure franchise. The film from Treasure producer Bruckheimer, director Jon Turteltaub and star Nicolas Cage grossed an estimated $5 million on Friday for a weekend take that may just hit $15 million. The film opened on Wednesday but even those two days of grosses won’t help the film get much past $20 million for the five-day period.