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And Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience Rakes in…$12.7 Mil??

Did the entire country get snowed in over the weekend? Could bad reviews have really kept JoBro fans away? The mind boggles.

The box office Top 10, courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes:

1. Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail $16.5M
2. Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience $12.7M
3. Slumdog Millionaire $12.2M
4. Taken $10M
5. He's Just Not That Into You $5.9M
6. Paul Blart: Mall Cop $5.6M
7. Coraline $5.3M
8. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li $4.7M
9. Confessions of a Shopaholic $4.5M
10. Fired Up $3.8M

Opening This Week: New in Town, The Uninvited, Taken, Plus a Film You Might Actually Have to Think About

What a perfect storm of new releases this weekend:

--Wendy and Lucy, a terribly timely and terribly depressing slice-of-life about a broke 20-something with a dead car and a lost dog. Starring Michelle Williams and her Dorothy Hamill-meets-No Country for Old Men hair.

--Taken, a thriller co-written by Luc Besson that stars Liam Neeson as a retired Jason Bourne. The setup's a little clunky. (It goes something like: "Daddy, can I go to Paris for the summer?" "No, it's too dangerous." "Please?" "You'll be in danger!" "Pretty please?" "Oh OK, but call me every five minutes." Then, who could have guessed it, the girl and her friend are in France not an hour before getting kidnapped.) But really, it's all about the action anyway, and that part's surprisingly entertaining. Who knew Neeson had an inner badass?

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