‘The Forgotten’ Scares Up $22 Million
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LOS ANGELES – It’s been a bad time for movies in general lately, but good for thrillers like “The Forgotten,” which claimed the no. 1 box office spot over the weekend, scaring up $22 million.
The overall box office was down for the fourth straight weekend compared to the same time last year. But movies like “The Forgotten,” about a mother who believes supernatural forces have erased people from her life, still debuted relatively strongly.
Critics hated “The Forgotten,” but its ad campaign was considered highly effective, showing creepy images of people being sucked into the atmosphere while star Julianne Moore questions what happened to her memory.
