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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) May 2, 2010 4:00 AM UTC  Rooney Mara as Nancy in A Nightmare on Elm Street Rooney Mara as Nancy in A Nightmare on Elm StreetNew Line Cinema by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) May 2, 2010 4:00 AM UTC A favorite bogeyman returned to movie houses with results that were scarily familiar. [_A Nightmare on Elm Street_](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1986077,00.html), with Jackie Earle Haley replacing Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, topped the North American box office with $32.2 million, nearly three times the take of its closest rival, _How to Train Your Dragon_. The other debut film in wide release, _Furry Vengeance_, opened with a dismal $6.5 million, according to early studio estimates — though there’s no telling whether the cause was murder by Freddy’s minions or simple artistic suicide. The five older films in the top seven slots all held a majority of their audiences, with _Dragon_ dropping only 29% (this coming week it will cross the $200 million domestic box-office mark and $400 million worldwide), Tina Fey and Steve Carell’s _Date Night_ 27%, Jennifer Lopez’s _The Back-Up Plan_ 41%, _The Losers_ 36% and _Clash of the Titans_ 33%. Only _Kick-Ass, Death at a Funeral_ and _Oceans_ took steeper falls. Attendance was sparse overall; moviegoers are saving their money for the summer blockbuster season, which begins on Friday with _Iron Man 2_. [(See pictures of ’80s film remakes.)](https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1977221,00.html) This ninth episode in the Krueger series (if the 2003 _Freddy vs. Jason_ face-off is included), Samuel Bayer’s _Nightmare_ is a pretty close version of Wes Craven’s 1984 original about a monster who invades teenagers’ dreams. The new entry continues the trend of ’70s-’80s horror-franchise remakes that serves as one of the strongest arguments for Hollywood’s total creative depletion. It follows _The Texas Chainsaw Massacre_ in 2003 ($28.1 million first weekend, $80.6 million total), _The Amityville Horror_ in 2005 ($23.5 million, $65.2 million), _Halloween_ in 2007 ($26.4 million, $58.3 million) and last year’s _Friday the 13th_ ($40.6 million, $65 million). [(See the TIME 100, our list of the world’s most influential people.)](https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1983917,00.html) You’ll note the increasingly sharp fall-offs from the first weekend to the rest of the run; horror-movie remakes are often three-day phenomena. The new _Nightmare_ might have shortened that to one day, since it amassed $15.8 million, or nearly half its weekend total, on Friday (including Thursday midnight showings). The kids who wanted to see it and the young adults who remembered being scared witless by the earlier films lined up early. But when they came out, they didn’t tweet “must see” to their friends; the picture received a near failing C+ from the Cinemascore polling of people leaving the movie. Yet Warner Bros.–New Line is said to be preparing a sequel in 3-D. That’s not so much scary as depressing. [(See the top 25 horror movies of all time.)](https://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1676793%5F1676808,00.html) In Hollywood, of course, nothing is as horrifying as a big fat flop. _Furry Vengeance_, a purported family comedy consisting mostly of woodland creatures biting Brendan Fraser in the nuts, continued the amiable star’s bad luck over the past two years. Since 2008, when his semihit adventure-movie tandem _The Mummy_ and _Journey to the Center of the Earth_ both squeezed past the $100 million mark, Fraser has starred in _Inkheart_ ($7.6 million first weekend, $17.3 million total domestic gross) and _Extraordinary Measures_ ($6 million, $12.1 million). He’s now planning a _Journey_ sequel. Anthony D’Alessandro of Indie Wire notes that “six years ago, _Furry_ was perceived as a project that would segue _The Daily Show_ correspondent Steve Carell to box-office stardom — that’s before _The 40-Year-Old Virgin_ changed his career.” So _Furry_ was the movie project that couldn’t die — until the weekend it opened. In specialty houses, the big hit is the Swedish-language version of Stieg Larsson’s international best seller _The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_, which after six weeks has earned $4.1 million. (David Fincher, of _Se7en_ and _Benjamin Button_ renown, is set to direct the Hollywood — what else? — remake.) In new indie action, Nicole Holofcener’s femme relationship comedy _Please Give_ opened smartly, with $128,696 on five screens, while the Michael Caine crime drama _Harry Brown_ took $180,957 in 19 venues. Two films in their third week looked primed for art-house-hit status: the Oscar-winning Argentine thriller _The Secret in Their Eyes_ passed the $1 million mark, and _Exit Through the Gift Shop_, the quasi-documentary about mysterious English graffiti artist Banksy, is at about $650,000\. Granted, in real dollars, that’s just a tenth of _Furry Vengeance_‘s disastrous three-day take, but for a pinchpenny indie film, it’s gold. [(Read TIME’s 1988 story on the _Nightmare_ franchise.)](https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,968343,00.html) Here are the weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _A Nightmare on Elm Street_, $32.2 million, first weekend 2\. _How to Train Your Dragon_, $10.8 million; $192.4 million, sixth week 3\. _Date Night_, $7.6 million; $73.6 million, fourth week 4\. _The Back-Up Plan_, $7.2 million; $22.95 million, second week 5\. _Furry Vengeance_, $6.5 million, first weekend 6\. _The Losers_, $6 million; $18.1 million, second week 7\. _Clash of the Titans_, $5.98 million; $154 million, fifth week 8\. _Kick-Ass_, $4.45 million; $42.2 million, third week 9\. _Death at a Funeral_, $4 million; $34.8 million, third week 10\. _Oceans_, $2.6 million; $13.5 million, second week [See a Q&A with Jackie Earle Haley.](https://techland.com/2010/04/29/freddy-krueger/) [See the 100 best movies of all time.](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1953094,00.html) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910827/box-office-freddys-big-new-nightmare/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910827/box-office-freddys-big-new-nightmare/"},"headline":"Box Office: Freddy's Big New Nightmare","datePublished":"2010-05-02T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:14:21.681Z","description":"A favorite bogeyman returned to movie houses with results that were scarily familiar. 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