“Vantage Point” topped the weekend box office with an estimated $24 million in ticket sales. It bumped “Jumper” from the number one spot, after earning only $12.7 million on its second week for a total 2-week run of $56.2 million so far (not bad!). A close third was the “Spiderwick Chronicles”, which earned $12.6 million.
I am quite sure that with sales as good as it is the “Vantage Point” producers are quite happy and have pounding hearts hoping for an equally good 2nd week. The movie, which is an action-drama about a presidential assassination, does deserve to be on the top of the box office for a few more weeks though. The (thankfully not literally, but almost literally) heart-stopping action keeps on replaying the same scene from a different person’s point of view, hence vantage point, revealing a new aspect of the plot in each repeated scene.