No Love For the 'Guru'
Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway's "Get Smart," the Warner Bros. big-screen update of the 1960s TV spy comedy, raked in $39.2 million to debut as the No. 1 weekend movie at the U.S. box office, according to studio estimates Sunday.
But movie-goers did not get Mike Myers' "The Love Guru," the weekend's other new wide release. The crowds showed little affection for the comedy about a self-help mentor, the Paramount Pictures release taking in just $14 million to open at No. 4.
Mike Myers - who dreamed up the "Love Guru" character, co-wrote the script and was a producer on the movie - has been accustomed to blockbuster openings with the three "Shrek" flicks and his two "Austin Powers" spy sequels.
"Mike Myers, the master of the spy spoof, opens his movie against a spy comedy, and the spy-movie genre was obviously a lot more appealing to audiences," Dergarabedian said.
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