If Derek had actually slept with Lisa, a la Michael Douglas in “Fatal Attraction,” “Obsessed” would at least have had the spurned-woman gambit to play, however hoary.
David Loughery’s screenplay never provides any explanation for why she is who she is: She has no motives other than mad obsession (which isn’t that interesting, really even the Wicked Witch of the West had reasons), and she has no backstory: Unless her temp agency recruits its workers outside Home Depot, Lisa would have to have references, and she would have to have acquired them from somewhere outside the mental-health community. Derek is believable enough not so Lisa, whose inappropriate antics wouldn’t be tolerated for five minutes in today’s sexual harassment-conscious corporate atmosphere. Sharon doesn’t leave a good impression, but Derek is the picture of marital fidelity: No matter how slinkily Lisa comports herself, Derek says no, thanks. But Derek, it seems, met Sharon at work, too (cue the organist). “I want her fired immediately,” Sharon says (so much for sisterhood), and no one seems to think this marks any instability in what is soon to be one plutonium-enriched domestic partnership. They seem the picture of contentment, save for Sharon’s obvious unhappiness with the fact that Derek has a new female assistant. Derek and wife Sharon (Knowles), who have a kid, have just moved into a cavernous old house with a wobbly attic floor and a glass-top table directly underneath it downstairs (remember this later!).
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So, it's likely the number of theaters each movie was playing in had a big impact on how well each movie did.Sultry blonde Larter (“Heroes”) plays office temp/temptress Lisa Sheridan, who isn’t even off the elevator at her latest job before she’s set her psychotic sights on Derek (Idris Elba), a good-looking, happily married, up-and-coming investment broker at a flourishing downtown Los Angeles firm. But each movie played in a different number of theaters: Fighting was in 2,309, The Soloist was in 2,024 and Earth was in 1,804. Interestingly, Fighting, The Soloist and Earth all had roughly the same per-theater averages: $4,955, $4,800 and $4,742. Paramount's The Soloist finished fourth, performing below expectations and only pulling in $9.7 million.ĭisney's Earth may have performed below our box office experts' predictions, grossing just $8.5 million, but that's the third best opening ever for a documentary and the best for a nature film. The rest of the top 5 was all new movies, with Rogue Pictures' Fighting beating expectations to gross $11.4 million for a third place finish. In second place, despite taking a predicted 50% drop, was Zac Efron's 17 Again with $11.7 million. Obsessed also scored an impressive per-theater average of $11,337 from 2,514 locations. It's the second-best opening for Sony Pictures' genre division, Screen Gems, beaten only by The Exorcism of Emily Rose, which debuted to $30.1 million in September 2005.
The movie gave Beyonce her best opening for a starring role (her second best first weekend overall, beaten only by Austin Powers in Goldmember's $73 million debut). EARLIER: After Friday's impressive debut, Sony's Screen Gems' Obsessed took the top spot at the box office this weekend, racking up an estimated $28.5 million.