Success is sweet, especially when you can rub it in the face of people who thought you weren’t good enough.
Grey’s Anatomy actress Katherine Heigl has become overnight a certified box office star, thanks to the impressive take of her new film, Knocked Up.
The movie took in $29.2 million this past weekend in the U.S, good enough for a second place birth – right behind a fatiguing Pirates of the Caribbean 3.
Knocked Up scored the fifth biggest R-rated comedy opening ever and it outperformed director Judd Apatow‘s last film, 40-Year-Old Virgin, which scored a $21M opening weekend, went on to make well over $100 mill and made Steve Carrell a big movie star.
Knocked Up jumped a highly unusual +18% from Friday to Saturday, an indication of the film’s good word of mouth and reviews, and the movie’s already exceeded expectations. It only cost $30 million to make,
This is all exceptionally good news for Katie Heigl, the outspoken Grey’s Anatomy star that is still fighting with the show producers, who don’t think she’s worth as much as some of the other Grey’s castmembers.
Well her stock’s sure gone up now!
