Monday, April 09, 2007

Blades is Number one

Blades Grinds Up Grindhouse

Apparently, the Easter bunny and machine gun-legged women don't mix.

A double dose of shocksploitation from Hollywood's reigning renegade auteurs was no match for toe loops and triple axels as Will Ferrell and Jon Heder's figure-skating farce, "Blades of Glory," ground Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's "Grindhouse" to a pulp at the box office this weekend.

For the second weekend in a row, the Paramount-DreamWorks comedy about figure skating's first men's pair iced the competition, grossing a cool $23 million.

"Grindhouse" failed to match the hype with just $11.6 million in fourth place.

Here's a rundown of the top-grossing weekend films:

1. "Blades of Glory," $23 million
2. "Meet the Robinsons," $17 million
3. "Are We Done Yet?," $15 million
4. "Grindhouse," $11.6 million
5. "The Reaping," $10.1 million

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