Box Office Results- 3/13-15/09

It looks like America chose The Rock (well, Dwayne Johnson if you want to get technical) over rape and a Playboy centerfold this weekend, as Disney's latest Race to Witch Mountain debuted at #1 with $25 million. The remake starred Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson as a cab driver who protects 2 paranormal kids from the hands of an evil organization. Witch Mountain is the second-highest grossing film for Mr. Johnson (the first being 2002's The Scorpion King). "We had a big family audience," said Mark Zoradi, president of the studio's motion pictures group at Walt Disney Co. "But about 20% of the audience was unaccompanied adults. There was a little bit of people looking back toward the first movie. He predicts the family-based flick to have a "good solid run" over the next few weeks, as kids across the nation are out for spring break.

Coming in at #2 was the long-awaited Watchmen movie. Only its second weekend, and already dropped 67% to $18 million. Watchmen, which fans have been waiting for for years, came second to 2007's 300, which Watchmen was often compared to. The Frank Miller graphic novel adaptation fell 54% when it first debuted a week ago in 2007, from $71 million to $32.9 million. But still, Watchmen didn't do as bad as other comic book silver screeners, such as Hellboy II: The Golden Army and Hulk. All in all, the Comedian wasn't the only thing that died in Watchmen.

At #3, the horror remake of the Wes Craven 1972 classic The Last House on the Left opened with an "okay" $14.7 million. It landed between The Strangers and Vacancy. I'm actually surprised, because I rather enjoyed Last House, and thought it would do better than it did, considering it opened on Friday the 13^th, same as last month's Friday the 13^thdid. And that opened at #1 with $40.6 million. The odd part about this, to me, is that 57% of the films audience was female. What, did they go alone or something?

The action-thriller Taken, starring Liam Neeson, is still staying strong at the box office; making about $6.7 million. Also staying alive is Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail at #6 with $5 million, and Paul Blart: Mall Cop at #7 with $3 million. The not-so-surprising part about this weekend's box office numbers is that Fox Searchlight's Miss March did the worst out of all 3 nationwide releases, opening at #10 with a little over $2 million. The comedy about a kid waking out of a 4-year coma to discover that his high school sweetheart was now a PlayBoy centerfold starred two of the kids from the IFC sketch-comedy series, The Whitest Kids U Know. The two, Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore, also co-wrote and co-directed March. No Napoleon Dynamite or Slumdog Millionaire (doing quite well after winning a few Academy Awards still, dropping only two spots to #6 with $5 million) happy ending this time, Fox Searchlight.

The second Friday the 13^th weekend of the year didn't do as well as last year, when Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! Opened strongly with a whopping $45 million.

Here are the estimated box office results according to Box Office Mojo-