Like a shy high school girl with hopes for the prom, the industry has been waiting since December for the princely kiss of a hit movie. That left the moguls with sour-gut rumblings as the box office continued its months-long record of underachievement. Far behind, in 11th place, was Topher Grace's '80s-retro rom-com Take Me Home Tonight, with $3.5 million. Beastly, another attempt at a Twilight-style teen-romance franchise, was third with $10.1 million, a bit above expectations. The Adjustment Bureau, a sci-fithriller love story starring Matt Damon, finished second with $20.9 million. In this first weekend after the Oscars the unofficial start of Hollywood's hopes for the new year four films opened. It was far less, though, than the $50 million debut that many box office swamis had predicted. That gave the western comedy the best opening weekend since TRON: Legacy's $44 million the week before Christmas. The first animated feature from director Gore Verbinski (the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy) and the special-effects sorcerers at George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic, Rango won the weekend at North American theaters with $38 million, according to early studio estimates. But it couldn't blow away the movie ghosts of 2010. Follow Johnny Depp as the lizard who becomes sheriff of a town called Dirt, Rango shot the competition to smithereens.
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