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
