HOLLYWOOD — The Tina Fey-Amy Poehler comedy “Baby Mama” delivered for Universal Pictures, topping the weekend box office with estimated ticket sales of $18.3 million.
Universal released its odd-couple story a week after opening another female-skewing comedy, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” and on the same weekend as the Warner Bros. stoner comedy “Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay,” which opened No. 2 with $14.6 million.
“This pokes a huge hole in that old myth that you can’t open two comedies back to back or one comedy against another,” said Universal executive Nikki Rocco.
At No. 3, “Sarah Marshall” grossed an estimated $11 million.
The other new nationwide release, 20th Century Fox’s erotic thriller “Deception,” starring Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams, mustered only $2.2 million to rank No. 10. Los Angeles Times
