(from Deadline)
BOX OFFICE GROSS: 'Jackass 3D' No Joke With $50M Weekend, 'Red' Strong #2
Two movies roundly rejected by Hollywood, one for being too moronic and the other too moldy, led the North American box office weekend with a big $125M weekend overall: 1. Jackass 3D (Paramount) NEW [3,081 Theaters] Friday $21.8M, Saturday $17M, Weekend $50M As a studio exec joked to me Friday, "The Oscar race has been turned on its head". That's because Paramount's Jackass 3D aimed at the youth market not only earned twice the gross of Sony's Academy Awards-touted Facebook origins film starting its 3rd week Friday, but knocked it out of #1. Producers Johnny Knoxville's and Spike Jonze's stupid stunt pic directed by Jeff Tremaine earned a "B+" CinemaScore. READ MORE
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