Thanks for the notice.
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Max Payne, the videogame adaptation starring Mark Wahlberg, shot up an easy win at the box office, even as two of the weekend's other new releases ? The Secret Life of Bees and W. ? performed nicely, finishing in line with their respective estimates.
The No. 1 action flick grossed $18 million from Friday through Sunday. Although not quite on par with the debut totals of some other game-based movies, like the most recent Resident Evil films, which blew away more than $23 mil in their premieres, Max Payne's premiere number is a marked improvement on the first-weekend sums of Wahlberg's previous two gun-totin' flicks, last fall's cop drama We Own the Night ($10.8 mil) and early 2007's Shooter ($14.5 mil). And here's another sort of backhanded compliment: It's a good thing the movie earned as much as it did this weekend, for its lamentable CinemaScore grade of C portends a limited audience in the coming weeks.
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I'll wait till it's on DVD.