Weekend Box Office: Do Wilson and Vaughn still have the magic?

It’s been eight years since “Wedding Crashers,” and years since either Owen Wilson or Vince Vaughn have been in top-performing comedy blockbusters.

Will “The Internship” reverse their fortunes?

Critics appear to be over the two of them –and they’re not keen on the image polish that Google gets as an employer and force for good in the movie (the latter isn’t there. So “The Internship” won’t get help from them. But word of mouth is good, they had paid sneaks of this one last weekend and they sold well. But $18 million seems to be the consensus on expectations for this one’s opening.

 

Both Box Office Guru ($19 million) and Box Office Mojo ($24) are thinking “The Purge” will win the weekend — a no-budget non-supernatural horror satire turns blockbuster?

It did over $3 million at midnight Thursday, so yeah — it’s opening big. And yeah, it is about Social Darwinism and takes on talking points in right wing politics of today (with a decidedly leftist POV), So we’ll see.

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