{"id":2121,"date":"2011-06-23T14:22:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T22:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2011-10-28T14:28:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T22:28:08","slug":"lets-go-to-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/lets-go-to-the-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Go to the Movies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Focus_AtTheMovies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2122\" title=\"The Movies\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Focus_AtTheMovies-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Focus_AtTheMovies-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Focus_AtTheMovies.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The sci-fi thriller, Super 8, opened at #1 at the American box office this weekend, grossing $35.5 million over 3 days, industry data confirmed Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by JJ Abrams, the horror flick takes place in a little Ohio town where a group of children witnesses a train wreck while creating a home movie. Shortly after the crash, unusual events and disappearances start to occur.<\/p>\n<p>Knocked off the leading spot was, X-Men: First Class, which earned $24.1 million for 2nd place. Soon after the prequel&#8217;s 2nd week it received a total of $98 million, based on business tracker Exhibitor Relations.<\/p>\n<p>The Hangover: Part II is in 3rd place for estimated weekend sales, with $17.7 million earnings this weekend plus a total of $215.7 million domestically over three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The box office hit for the summer at this point is, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, that&#8217;s netted $887 million throughout the world in five weeks along with a projected $10.9 million in the United States this weekend, for fifth spot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sci-fi thriller, Super 8, opened at #1 at the American box office this weekend, grossing $35.5 million over 3 days, industry data confirmed Monday. Directed by JJ Abrams, the horror flick takes place in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1302,1193,1192],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-jj-abrams","tag-super-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/2124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}