‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ Gets Slayed At The Box Office

Posted Monday, June 25th, 2012 12:00 pm GMT -4 by 0

The weekend box office numbers are in and, because of its amazingly original premise and big name… Oh, who am I kidding? Because of its boring premise and lack of big name stars, 20th Century Fox’s ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ crashed and burned. The film stars Benjamin Walker (‘Flags of Our Fathers’) as the sixteenth President of these United States in a world where he was secretly a (shocker) vampire hunter. The film managed to bring in $16.5 million on its opening weekend. Even with an estimated budget of only $69 million, that number is a pretty meager amount.

The number one spot was unsurprisingly taken by Disney/Pixar’s ‘Brave’, making it the 13th Pixar movie to open to a #1 box office spot. ‘Brave’ earned $66.7 million over the weekend, easily outpacing the rest of the box office.

Another family film, Dreamworks’ ‘Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted’ held on to the number two spot, slipping from the top spot that it’s held for the past two weeks. ‘Madagascar 3’ earned another $20.2 million this week, bringing its total haul to $158 million.

The top five was rounded out by Ridley Scott’s (maybe) ‘Alien’ prequel ‘Prometheus’, with $10 million and the reimagined fairy tale ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ with $8.01 million.

It’s still a sci-fi world at the box office though with six (seven if you count the fantasy of ‘Brave’) sci-fi and fantasy films in the top 10. Still hanging on is Marvel Pictures’ ‘The Avengers’ in the #8 spot. The landmark superhero team-up film brought in another $7 million, pulling its total box office haul to nearly $600 million overall. The #9 and #10 spots were filled in by the sci-fi comedies ‘Men in Black 3’ and ‘Seeking a Friend for the End of the World’, bringing in $5.6 million and $3.8 million respectively.

After this, the sci-fi barrage seems to be ending with ‘Amazing Spider-Man’, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, and ‘The Watch’ being the only big sci-fi releases over the next few months.

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  • PBMom1

    When I first heart about it on the web (maybe Twitter), I thought it was a joke.  I didn’t realize it was a real movie they were making.  

  • Douglas Dandridge

    With so many great ideas out there waiting to be made, it boggles the mind that this movie was made.  Please Hollywood, quit remaking old TV Shows and Movies and giving us crap ideas.  Make Ringworld or some other work of worth.

  • sheril

    I think the movie is great! I felt bad at the box-office result. You should give this movie a chance.