Glee concert film flops at US box office
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A 3D film featuring the cast of TV's Glee has failed to make the US box office Top 10 after taking $5.7m (£3.5m) over the weekend.
Glee: The 3D Concert Movie was ranked 11th in the weekly chart after opening in more than 2,000 screens.
According to tracking site , only an estimated 500,000 tickets were sold for the movie.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes, last week's top film, retained pole position with takings of $27.5m (£16.9m).
Feel-good movie The Help and horror sequel Final Destination 5 rounded off this week's top three.
The former, in which Emma Stone plays a young woman investigating the lives of black housekeepers in 1960s Mississippi, took $25.5m (£15.6m) in its first weekend in cinemas.
The latter, in which Death hunts down the survivors of a bridge collapse, earned $18.4m (£11.2m) between Friday and Sunday.
Part-animated fantasy The Smurfs took fourth place, with Jesse Eisenberg comedy 30 Minutes or Less a new entry at five.
The film, in which a pizza delivery man with a bomb strapped to his chest is forced to rob a bank, took $13m (£7.9m) in its opening weekend.
- Published8 August 2011