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‘Expendables’ Holds Steady At Friday Box Office

The action flick takes the top spot for the second consecutive Friday. By Mawuse Ziegbe Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone and Randy Couture in “The Expendables” Photo: Lionsgate #1 “The Expendables” ($5 million) #2 “Vampires Suck” ($4.4 million) #3 “Lottery Ticket” ($3.9 million) #4 “Piranha 3D” and “Eat Pray Love” ($3.6 million) #6 “The Other Guys” ($2.9 million) Sylvester Stallone and his crew of beefy mercenaries have maintained their grip on the Friday box-office crown for a second week in a row. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the action flick, packed with gun-toting, muscled-up stars like Terry Crews and Mickey Rourke, kicked off the weekend with an estimated $5 million in ticket sales. Friday’s haul brings the film’s total gross to $53.4 million. Following closely behind in second place is the scary-movie parody “Vampires Suck.” The flick, which sends up the teen mania-inducing franchise “Twilight” among other horror films, pulled in $4.4 million on Friday. The film has scored $10.8 million since it hit theaters on Wednesday. The new comedy “Lottery Ticket” took third place on Friday. “Lottery,” which stars Bow Wow as a kid who deals with the sudden neighborhood-wide fame of scoring a winning lotto ticket, made $3.9 million. The aquatic horror flick “Piranha 3D” shared its fourth-place Friday debut with the sumptuous globe-trotting Julia Roberts vehicle “Eat Pray Love.” “Piranha,” which follows lakeside dwellers as they battle schools of flesh-tearing fish, brought in $3.6 million. “The Other Guys” took the sixth-place slot during its third week in theaters. Theatergoers are still heading out to catch Will Ferrell and Mark Walhberg in the buddy-cop comedy which raked in $2.9 million. Friday’s ticket sales bumped the film’s cumulative total to $81 million. The Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman rom-com “The Switch” and the kid-friendly Emma Thompson adventure “Nanny McPhee Returns” both scored Friday debuts in the top 10 at seventh and eighth place respectively.

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‘Expendables’ Holds Steady At Friday Box Office