Weekend Box Office

For the weekend of April 15-17.

1. Rio - $40 million - 1 wk (Fox)
3826 screens / $10,455 per screen
2. Scream 4 - $19.28 - 1 wk (Dim)
3305 / $5833
3. Hop - $11.17 ($82.61) - 3 wks (U) -47.6%
3608 / $3095
4. Soul Surfer - $7.4 ($20) - 2 wks (Tri) -30.2%
2214 / $3342
5. Hanna - $7.33 ($23.33) - 2 wks (Foc) -40.8%
2545 / $2879
6. Arthur - $6.94 ($22.35) - 2 wks (WB) -43.2%
3276 / $2118
7. Insidious - $6.86 ($35.98) - 3 wks (FD) -26.8%
2233 / $3071
8. Source Code - $6.3 ($36.99) - 3 wks (Sum) -27.2%
2557 / $2464
9. The Conspirator - $3.92 - 1 wk (RA)
707 / $5550
10. Your Highness - $3.9 ($15.95) - 2 wks (U) -58.4%
2772 / $1405
11. Limitless - $3.79 ($69.72) - 5 wks (Rel) -30.5%
1885 / $2013
12. The Lincoln Lawyer - $3 ($50.57) - 5 wks (LG) -29.9%
1702 / $1763
13. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2 - $2.15 ($48.19) - 4 wks (Fox) -54.9%
1849 / $1163
14. Atlas Shrugged Pt 1 - $1.68 - 1 wk (RM)
300 / $5590

Animation and horror - the story of 2011. Rio joins Rango, Hop and Gnomeo & Juliet for being a decent performer, and Scream 4, while lower than the studio had hoped, still some legs in it, and Insidious has great word-of-mouth keeping it alive. A sequel seems guaranteed at this point.