Sucker Punched: ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ Takes the Weekend Box Office

At the end of the day, it was a Wimpy Kid who beat up on the highly stylized and sexualized Sucker Punch. An effective trailer campaign launched by Warner Brothers stirred up plenty of interest in Zack Snyder’s latest offering, but a 17% drop from Friday to Saturday squelched its chances of winning the weekend. […]