Weekend Box Office Report - Team Gru Wins

What's better than vampires, aliens, toys and M. Night Shymalan (well almost anythings better than his movies)?  Steve Carrell and a bunch funny little yellow minions, that's what. 

Universal’s 3D animated Despicable Me exceeded most projections by taking first place this weekend with an estimated $60.1 million.  Toy Story 3 and Twilight Saga: Eclipse still did very well over the weekend increasing their totals.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	Despicable Me	$60,100,000	$60.1
2	Twilight Saga: Eclipse	$33,400,000	$237
3	Predators	$25,300,000	$25.3
4	Toy Story 3	$22,000,000	$340.2
5	The Last Airbender	$17,150,000	$100.2
6	Grown Ups	$16,400,000	$111.3
7	Knight & Day	$7,850,000	$61.9
8	The Karate Kid	$5,700,000	$164.6
9	The A-Team	$1,800,000	$73.9
10	Cyrus	$1,375,000	$3.5

Paramount Kills Anchorman 2, Clearly Hates San Diego

Let's start with some numbers just to set the stage:

• The original Anchorman cost $26 million to make
• The original Anchorman made $85 million at the box office
• The original Anchorman also sold 13 bazillion copies on iTunes, DVD, Bluray even freaking HD DVD

Now are you ready for this gfesters:

The Suits at Paramount just killed Anchorman 2.  WTF?

Steve Carell Quits His "Office" Job

Steve Carell plans to exit his Golden Globe-winning role as paper company manager Michael Scott on NBC’s The Office once the show’s seventh season on NBC wraps in 2011.


In a BBC Radio interview this week, promoting Carell’s new comedy Date Night, the comedian, 47, revealed that his contract with the NBC sitcom only runs through season seven and it looks unlikely that he’ll opt to stay on longer.

“I don’t think so. I think that will probably be my last year,” Carell replied when quizzed on his possible future with the series.

The actor certainly won’t be basking in retirement when he bids “Happy Trails” to The Office — Carell reportedly has 10 comedy movie projects in the works.