Not that Sony is complaining; after all, the movie earned another estimated $52.5 million overseas, for a global total of $80.3 million. Once again, the foreign box office comes to the rescue of the domestic box office. Nonetheless, Smurfs 2 might have done better at home had it not come so late in the season, well after Monsters University and Despicable Me 2. (Then again, with Planes opening soon, Smurfs 2 may just get lost in the family-film shuffle.)
‘SPECTACULAR’ WOW: Sundance favorite The Spectacular Now opened on just four screens, but it earned an average of $50,000 on each of them. That’s the biggest per-screen average of the week by far. (2 Guns opened with $9,045 per venue.) Also excelling at the art house: Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine, which expanded from six screens to 50 and averaged $40,440 on each of them, for an estimated $2.0 million weekend. (With $3.0 million to date, it’s slightly ahead of where recent Allen smash Midnight in Paris was at the same point in its release.) And Lindsay Lohan’s much anticipated art-house erotic thriller The Canyons, which debuted this weekend on video-on-demand cable and in one theater, earned a respectable $15,200 on that lone screen.