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On Friday, we asked if
over-the-top critical exuberance over her movie-salvaging performance in the not-great
The House Bunny could turn Anna Faris into a star. And maybe it can!
Bunny was the feel-good box-office story of the weekend, earning a near-budget-recouping $15.1 million and placing second, just behind
Tropic Thunder, whose $16.1 million brings its cumulative gross to just $65 million, a good deal short of the movie's $100 million production cost (and the untold billions they spent on offensive viral marketing). Faris also trounced
Death Race ($12.3 million) and Rainn Wilson's awful-looking
The Rocker, which bowed at No. 12 with a hilarious $2.8 million. If people will pay this much to see her in
The House Bunny, just imagine how much they'd pay to see her in a movie that isn't borderline terrible!
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Earlier: Can America's Film Critics Make Anna Faris a Star?