{"id":6193,"date":"2010-08-16T01:08:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T01:08:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-16T01:08:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T01:08:30","slug":"Expendables-seizes-No-1-spot-with-35M-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=6193","title":{"rendered":"Expendables seizes No. 1 spot with $35M debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stallone and his pumped-up pals lifted Lionsgate’s 1980s-style action romp “The Expendables” to a No. 1 debut<\/strong> with $35 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.<\/p>\n

While the macho “Expendables”<\/strong> lured male audiences, Julia Roberts delivered a crowd-pleaser for women with Sony’s “Eat Pray Love,”<\/strong> which opened at No. 2 with $23.7 million.<\/p>\n

“By combining all that star power, they really had a strong debut,” said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. “Maybe star power doesn’t work with just one star, but when you throw in a dozen, it really looked fun. In the action world, these guys are big names.”<\/p>\n

Adapted from Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling memoir, “Eat Pray Love”<\/strong> stars Julia Roberts as a woman traveling the world in search of enlightenment after her divorce.<\/p>\n

Lionsgate deliberately chose this weekend to open “The Expendables”<\/strong> since it would be aiming for a different audience than “Eat Pray Love.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We figured anybody going to see ‘Eat Pray Love’<\/strong> would not want to see ‘Expendables,’<\/strong> and vice versa,” said David Spitz, head of distribution at Lionsgate.<\/p>\n

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