Weekend Box Office: Texas Chainsaw 3D Tops the First Weekend of 2013 While Promised Land Tanks
Category: ENTERTAINMENT
Texas Chainsaw 3D topped the box office this weekend with a robust $23 million.  That this under-marketed film was still able to kick up a solid opening is proof of the franchise's long-standing popularity with genre fans (this is the seventh entry in 40 years).
By Scott Mendelson, Contributor
Film critic at Mendelson's Memos, Valley Scene Magazine, 2013-01-06