Wanted Poster

Wall-E opened fine, as expected. And with the rapturous reviews, it should continue to do quite well. But the real surprise of the weekend was second-place finisher Wanted. An R-rated action film with some decent stars, it's $51 million take was around 40% higher than expected, and opening in 20% fewer theatres than Wall-E, it had a better per screen average.

Considering its budget is about half the size of some of the bigger action names out now, Universal must be quite pleased. (Reviews weren't bad either. I'm looking forward to it.)