Guess Who easily secured the weekend's top slot, earning an estimated $21 million and moving Miss Congeniality 2 to the second place.
Guess Who easily secured the weekend's top slot, earning an estimated $21 million on Easter weekend.
That was way more money than Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous, which snagged a mere $14.5 million in second place.
Guess Who, a comedic remake of the 1967 classic racial issues dramedy Guess Who's Coming to Dinner reverses the ethnic clash of the original (starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Sidney Poitier) to headline Bernie Mac flipping his lid as a possessive dad encountering his daughter's fiancé (Ashton Kutcher).
While the original was heavy on social commentary amid the civil-rights movement, Guess Who plays the interracial-romance angle for slapstick laughs.
Guess Who stars Mac as a black father vexed after learning his daughter's boyfriend (Kutcher) is white, a reversal of the Guess Who's Coming to Dinner scenario, which starred Spencer Tracy, and Sidney Poitier
A sequel to Sandra Bullock's cute 2000 FBI action comedy Miss Congeniality launched on Thursday, but it failed to give this new caper a jump on the competition.
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