‘Warm Bodies’ has hot weekend: $20 million
Nicholas Hoult, left, Rob Corddry and Teresa Palmer in "Warm Bodies," which led the weekend box office. (Jonathan Wenk / Summit Entertainment)
Link“Warm Bodies” defied box office expectations and staggered to a $20-million box office haul.
The box office prospects for the zom-rom-com were unclear heading into the weekend. (A romantic film starring zombies?!? Would you want to kiss someone who ate brains for a living?) And, of course, it was Super Bowl weekend.
Turns out not everyone was fixated on football, beer and chicken wings this weekend.
Super Bowl Sunday: ‘Clean up those zombies. Now.’
IMDB’s Keith Simanton told Hero Complex that he had predicted “Warm Bodies” would win the weekend box office with a $17.4-million draw. He was right — the film won the weekend — but with a few extra millions to spare.
“Warm Bodies” distributor Summit Entertainment told the Los Angeles Times the movie cleared $20 million, a number that could potentially shift higher once Sunday afternoon and evening ticket sales are tallied.
As for any concern about a zombie as a romantic lead, that was likely a media-made myth. A quick scan of Twitter turned up all the evidence needed to prove that women (especially those in the biz) would like to get busy with a zombie.
Singer Rydel Lynch tweeted, “Warm bodies is seriously amazing! I’m marrying a zombie.” Performer Alyssa Bernal tweeted, “Warm bodies was the cutest. Makes me want a zombie boyfriend. Glad I’m dating an actor. Haha”
Probably didn’t hurt that the zombie was Nicholas Hoult.
Did you see “Warm Bodies”? Thoughts?
– Rene Lynch
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