'The Bucket List' Wins Box Office Weekend War

Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman team up for The Bucket List. (Courtesy Warner Bros)

In The Bucket List, Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play terminal cancer patients who live their final days to the fullest.

Just trailing behind The Bucket List's $19.5 million weekend pull is Ice Cube's comedy First Sunday, which has so far earned a respectable $19 million. In third is the indie flick Juno which scored a cool $14 million.

Although The Bucket List earned a luke warm reception from critics with a 40% approval rating from Rottentomatoes.com, Warner Bros. gamble to target an older audience paid off.

For next weekend, the box office battle will be between Paramount Pictures' Cloverfield, about a monster attacking New York, and 20th Century Fox's 27 Dresses, a Katherine Heigl romantic wedding comedy.

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