'Dumb and Dumber To' Beats the Competition to Box Office Victory

It was a decidedly dumb weekend at movie theaters: Not only was Dumb and Dumber To's $38.05 million enough for it to trump holdovers Interstellar and Big Hero 6, it also proved the biggest opening of both the Farrelly Brothers' and Jeff Daniels' careers. Move your Emmy off the mantlepiece, Jeff--your framed Dumb and Dumber To script deserves pride of place. The reviews have been abysmal (27% Rotten Tomatoes rating), and even the people who saw it didn't like it all that much--its CinemaScore rating is a mere B-. Long story short, don't expect this one to hang around in the top five for long, especially not with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 barrelling into theaters this weekend.

Big Hero 6 and Interstellar are looking to have better legs--box office grosses for the pair dropped 36 and 39 percent over the weekend, which isn't half bad. They've earned $111.6 million and $97.8 million so far, respectively. Newcomer Beyond the Lights was a distant fourth, earning $6.5 million with a per-theater average of $3,633. Gone Girl is clinging onto the top five and has so far earned an impressive $152.6 million.

For more limited releases, Birdman nearly doubled the amount of screens it's playing on and had its best weekend yet as a result, bringing in $2.45 million for a total so far of $11.5 million. Whiplash likewise added theaters and saw its weekend gross jump 152 percent. Rosewater, Jon Stewart's directorial debut, earned $1.2 million at 371 theaters, while Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas got $1 million at 410 theaters, for an opening weekend per-theater average ($2,468) that's only a fraction of what Cameron's Christian-themed Fireproof pulled in back in 2008 ($8,148).

Finally, Foxcatcher debuted in six theaters in New York and Los Angeles, where it grossed $288,000 for an impressive per-theater average of $48,000. And Tommy Lee Jones' The Homesman got $48,000 in four theaters.