Box Office: 2 Guns Wins the Weekend Shootout Over Blue Demon Spawns

Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg yukked and shot their way to #1 in their debut, taking the top spot over last week’s #1, James Mangold’s “The Wolverine” and beating out fellow studio newcomer “The Smurfs 2″, which opened weakly at #3. This, after the first movie shocked the world with $563 million just two years ago. With emphasis on world. While clearly-reprehensible Stateside moviegoers contributed their fair share to the first “Smurfs’” huge box office, it was the in-dire-need-of-lobotomy overseas market that helped the blue freaks really cleaned up to the tune of $421 million. It’s looking likely that the sequel will follow the first movie’s pattern, as while “The Smurfs 2″ only made $18.2 million in its Stateside 3-day debut, it’s already earned double that, $52 million overseas. But back to “2 Guns”. The action movie, based on a comic book of the same name, starred Washington and Wahlberg as opposing lawmen who team up to battle a common […]