Watch Super 8 Megavideo Movie - The movie is about a group of kids in 1979 who are shooting a Super 8 movie and stumble upon a real-life government conspiracy involving what could be a monstrous alien from outer space. The young actors helped make the movie-within-a-movie; stay for the credits and you’ll see the whole film short unspool.
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On a scale of 10, Super 8 pretty much scored an eight by collecting $12.2 million on Friday, according to early estimates. (It also grossed $1 million on Thursday from Twitter-publicized screenings at 324 theaters.) The sci-fi adventure, directed by J.J. Abrams and produced by Steven Spielberg, was never expected to leave the train station with huge numbers, with industry insiders predicting a $30 million opening. But Super 8 is now on track for a debut of about $34 million. The PG-13 movie will likely fall a bit short of the opening gross of the 2008 Abrams-produced monster flick Cloverfield, which gobbled up $40.1 million its first weekend. But for a $50 million film starring a mostly no-name cast, this is still a solid start.
The big question remains how Super 8 will hold up in the weeks to come. Cloverfield, which similarly featured a creature that the advertising campaign chose to keep secret, dropped 68 percent its second weekend. Will the well-reviewed Super 8 follow suit once its mysteries have been revealed? Worth noting is the fact that, according to Paramount, 71 percent of the film’s audience was at least 25 years old. That may suggest that older moviegoers are in sync with the movie’s Spielbergian nostalgia — the story’s set in a small Ohio town during 1979 and follows a group of filmmaking kids — while younger moviegoers are taking a wait-and-see approach.
In second place, X-Men: First Class fell a somewhat alarming 65 percent for $7.6 million. The mutant action film is on pace for a $25 million weekend, which would give it a two-week total of about $99 million. By comparison, the prior four X-Men movies had accumulated an average of $138 million by their second weekends. The Hangover Part II dropped 46 percent for $5.7 million, while Kung Fu Panda 2 slipped only 28 percent for $4.6 million. In fifth, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides plundered $3.1 million. Both Pirates and Hangover Part II crossed the $200 million mark on Friday.
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