{"id":8943,"date":"2011-08-08T15:50:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T19:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8943"},"modified":"2011-08-08T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T19:00:30","slug":"rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-wins-box-office-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8943","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes&#8217; Wins Box Office Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After last week&#8217;s big box office battle between <em>&#8220;Cowboys &amp; Aliens&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;The Smurfs,&#8221;<\/em> the first weekend in August proved to be less suspenseful as <em>&#8220;Rise of the Planet of the Apes&#8221;<\/em> dominated the box office.<\/p>\n<p>The film, which stars <strong>James Franco<\/strong> and is a prequel to <em>&#8220;Planet of the Apes,&#8221;<\/em> earned an estimated $54 million to open as the No. 1 movie for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>While the film outperformed studio expectations, it still fell below the $68.5 million opening of <strong>Tim Burton&#8217;s<\/strong> <em>&#8220;Planet of the Apes&#8221;<\/em> remake 10 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last week&#8217;s big box office battle between &#8220;Cowboys &amp; Aliens&#8221; and &#8220;The Smurfs,&#8221; the first weekend in August proved to be less suspenseful as &#8220;Rise of the Planet of the Apes&#8221; dominated the box office. The film, which stars James Franco and is a prequel to &#8220;Planet of the Apes,&#8221; earned an estimated $54 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}