The Last Song Tops Wednesday Box Office!

“The Last Song,” the new drama based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks, debuted at the top of the North American box office Wednesday with a decent one-day gross of $5.1 million in ticket sales from 2,673 locations. The Buena Vista/Touchstone release scored an average of $1,917 per theater.

Directed by Julie Anne Robinson, the movie stars Miley Cyrus as a rebellious teenager forced to spend the summer at her dad’s beach home. I know it sounds like a “Life as a House” ripoff, and in my book, the movie is terrible. Still, it looks like it’s going to perform well enough this weekend.

Also doing well Wednesday was DreamWorks’ “How to Train Your Dragon,” which bagged another $4.5 million for a total haul of $57.8 million. Following in third place with $1.9 million was “Alice in Wonderland,” which generated $1.9 million for a domestic total of $299.4 million.

Source: AMC Entertainment