Friday Box Office: Cameron Diaz's 'The Other Woman' Tops With $9.3M — forbes.com

Call this weekend the calm before the storm, the last weekend before the official start of the summer movie season. Performing at the highest level of reasonable expectations, The Other Woman soundly topped the box office with a robust $9.3 million. The $40 million comedy stars Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, and Kate Upton, concerns three women (the wife, the girlfriend, and the mistress) who find out they are all being betrayed by the same guy and get their revenge.  The 20th Century Fox Fox release debuted last weekend in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore where it earned $5.3m 3m. It expands to 26 international territories this weekend along with its domestic debut. The film got terrible reviews, but there hasn’t been much for adult women since About Last Night back over Valentine’s Day and maybe Labor Day two weeks before that.

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