Micro snitch review movie#

Dark Skies, 1/2,313, The Weinstein Co., $8.9 millionħ. Escape From Planet Earth, 2/3,353, The Weinstein Co, $11 million, $35.1 millionĤ. Title, Weeks in release/theater count, studio, three-day weekend total, cume (*denotes Oscar best picture nominee)ġ. 22-24 weekend at the domestic box office. Scott Stewart wrote and directed Dark Skies, which cost $3.5 million.īelow are estimates for the Feb. Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton and Dakota Goyostar, with Jason Blum, Couper Samuelsonand Jeannette Brill producing. STORY: Todd McCarthy’s Most Disappointing Films of 2012ĭimension Films released Dark Skies, about a couple trying to save their children from an alien presence. Microbudgeted horror pic Dark Skies, the weekend’s other new entry, placed No. From 20th Century Fox, the movie’s domestic total through Sunday is $51.8 million. 1 spot to Bruce Willis starrer A Good Day to Die Hard.ĭie Hard tumbled 60 percent in its second weekend, grossing $10 million to come in No.

Last weekend, Identity Thief - the top-grossing film of 2013 - ceded the No. 4, falling 50 percent in its second weekend to gross $10.6 million for a domestic total of $48.1 million. The adaptation of Nicholas Sparks‘ romantic drama Safe Haven placed No. 3 after Identity Thief and Snitch was the animated Escape From Planet Earth, which moved up the chart in its second outing, grossing $11 million for a domestic total of $35.1 million. PHOTOS: ’80s Action Stars: Where Are They Now?Ĭoming in No. federal drug policy encourage prisoners to rat on their cronies provided the original inspiration for Snitch. The PG-13 action-thriller also stars Susan Sarandon, Benjamin Bratt, Barry Pepper and Jon Bernthal.Ī Frontline documentary about how changes to U.S. The film, costing a relatively modest $22 million to $25 million to produce, received a B CinemaScore and middling reviews.ĭirected by Ric Roman Waugh, Snitch stars Johnson as a father who agrees to become an undercover informant and infiltrate a drug cartel after his son is wrongly charged with drug distribution. Lionsgate acquired domestic rights to Snitch for roughly $2.5 million. It also bested the $8 million opening of Johnson’s Faster in 2008.

Micro snitch review movie#

Exclusive Media and Participant likely wanted Snitch to do more, though the movie opened respectably ahead of several high-profile action pics that bombed in recent weeks, including Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s The Last Stand and Sylvester Stallone‘s Bullet to the Head.