Zac Efron Flexes His Box-Office Muscle

Nice guys finish first: Zac Efron proved he’s a potent marquee name, as his new movie 17 Again grabbed the gold among new releases this weekend, with an estimated North American gross of $24.1 million, its very pleased studio, Warner Bros., said Sunday.

Original box-office projections for the PG-13 movie had been in the low $20 million

The other teen idol strutting her stuff in the Cineplex is Miley Cyrus, whose tween musical-comedy Hannah Montana: The Movie, slipped to fourth place at the box office, with an estimated $12.7 million take since Friday. So far, in 10 days, that movie’s made a still-respectable $56.1 million.

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