Scary Movie 4 has record-breaking weekend

The horror movie spoof "Scary Movie 4" isn’t frightening off audiences. The comedy starring Anna Faris and Leslie Nielsen grossed $41 million at the box office this weekend according to estimates, more than double the second-place film, “Ice Age 2: The Meltdown,” which pulled in another $20 million to bring it’s three-week total to $147 million.
The Scary total finished slightly under "Scary Movie 3," which pulled in $48 million in 2003, but managed to beat “Panic Room” (2002) for the best Easter Weekend opening. The other major opening last weekend was Disney’s “The Wild.” It finished in fourth place under geek-sports comedy “The Benchwarmers,” grossing a mere $9.6 million. With a budget of around $80 million, it’s going to take a lot of DVD sales for Disney to make its money back on this one.
Next weekend, "Scary Movie" will be up against the American Idol-esque "American Dreamz" starring Hugh Grant and Mandy Moore, the thriller "The Sentinel" starring Michael Douglas and Kiefer Sutherland and the scary looking “Silent Hill” starring Radha Mitchell.

Photo of Anna Faris in courtesy of Dimension Films.