Box Office Update: Adults Flocking To Moneyball, The Lion King Still Roars

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In this Saturday update of the movie box office, it appears that Columbia’s Moneyball is looking at a $21 million weekend. If that holds up, it would be the biggest opening for a baseball film release, surpassing the putrid that is The Benchwarmers. Audiences seem to be gravitating to this picture as all genders and ages have given it across the board A’s from CinemaScore. One unnamed source to Deadline has said that most of the audience of Moneyball is over the age of fifty.

The Lion King continues to do business as usual as it looks to have a $21 million weekend as well. The re-release of the 1994 animated classic could amass as much as $60 million in two weeks by Monday.

The new family film entering the marketplace this weekend, Dolphin Tale is headed toward a weekend haul of $17 million. With promotions that tie it to The Blind Side, Alcon Entertainment hopes to get a bump today in attendance. CinemaScores have parents and kids giving it an A+ rating.

Sorry Twi-hards, Abduction opening, at or near $10 million, is proof that Taylor Lautner isn’t quite ready for leading man status. The John Singleton action thriller has Twilight‘s favorite wolf evading villains and authority in a film whose title makes no sense.

But will Lautner’s action thriller be able to beat out Killer Elite with Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro. The Open Road Films release is playing on 200 less screens and is also hedging around a $10 million weekend gross. Considering that Open Road’s role was only P&A costs, it will make a nice profit once it completes its theatrical run and head to home video.

The rest of the top 10 will consist of previous leftovers with Contagion entering its third weekend, Drive in weekend two, The Help at close to two months in the top 10, and the bottom of the top ten dreck that is I Don’t Know How She Does It and Straw Dogs.

Travis Leamons is one of the Inside Pulse Originals and currently holds the position of Managing Editor at Inside Pulse Movies. He's told that the position is his until he's dead or if "The Boss" can find somebody better. I expect the best and I give the best. Here's the beer. Here's the entertainment. Now have fun. That's an order!