Paul Rudd, though one of the most likable actors around, hasn’t been very lucky at the North American box office. Admission, co-starring 30 Rock‘s Tina Fey, is Rudd’s latest box-office bomb, following James L. Brooks / Reese Witherspoon’s How Do You Know ($30.21m), Jesse Peretz’s Our Idiot Brother ($24.81m domestic), and David Wain / Jennifer Aniston’s Wanderlust ($17.45m), in addition to Judd Apatow’s box-office disappointment This Is 40 ($67.54m). (Photo: Paul Rudd Admission.)
Directed by Paul Weitz (About a Boy, In Good Company), the Paul Rudd-Tina Fey combo Admission took in $6.44m at 2,160 US/Canada locations this weekend, according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. That’s Paul Rudd’s second worst wide-release debut (more than 1,000 theaters), behind — or rather, ahead of — only Jeff Lowell’s comedy Over Her Dead Body, also featuring Lake Bell and Eva Longoria, which scored a paltry $4.02m in February 2008.
Directed by Paul Weitz (About a Boy, In Good Company), the Paul Rudd-Tina Fey combo Admission took in $6.44m at 2,160 US/Canada locations this weekend, according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. That’s Paul Rudd’s second worst wide-release debut (more than 1,000 theaters), behind — or rather, ahead of — only Jeff Lowell’s comedy Over Her Dead Body, also featuring Lake Bell and Eva Longoria, which scored a paltry $4.02m in February 2008.