Although it had been tracking to open in first place this weekend, Kick-Ass 2 failed to do much ass-kicking at the weekend box office, running neck and neck with last weekend's champ Elysium for what, according to weekend estimates, is a fourth place debut of $13.6 million.
It's possible Kick-Ass 2 will nudge up into third place when the final numbers are reported Monday. Either way, it's still roughly $6 million less than what the 2010 original opened with and is very difficult to be viewed as less than anything than a commercial disappointment.
Instead, audiences flocked to see Lee Daniels' The Butler, which bowed in first place with $25 million. The weekend's other two wide releases disappointed. The biopic jOBS debuted softly in seventh place, while Paranoia -- starring Liam Hemsworth and Harrison Ford -- utterly flopped with a 13th place opening of $3.5 million.
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