B.O.: 'The Vow' looks to wow Valentine auds

'The Vow''Safe House'Couples acquiring a visit Valentine's should boost weekend totals for that new the new sony-Screen Gems' weeper "The Vow," leading a pack of four new records along with Universal's "Safe House," Fox's 3d reboot of "Alien: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace " and Warner Bros.-New Line's "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.""The Vow," toplining Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams, is ruling first-choice interest among youthful women at 40%, though over-25 femmes are forecasted to exhibit strong turnout for your pic too.Before-weekend monitoring signifies that "The Vow" could earn enough through Sunday to enhance its reported $Thirty Dollars million cost for just about any B.O. tally which will rival Screen Gems' finest Stateside opener, 2010's "Dear John," which first demonstrated to $30.5 million.Battling for second place, "Safe House" and 3d "AlienInch are both forecasted to land somewherenorth of $20 million. Warner's "Journey to the center of our planetInch follow-up, opening at 3,470 locations (including 2,750 in 3d and 282 in Imax), is a lot more from the wildcard, with anticipation beginning inside the mid-teens and stretching towards the $20 million opening. Pic's predecessor opened up up within this summer time 2008 to $21 million and cumed nearly $102 million in your area.Allotted at $79 million, "Journey 2" gets the possible ways to overperform, thinking about that families with youthful kids are actually relatively underserved by B.O. options lately. Nevertheless the 3d pic likely will deal with "AlienInch for youthful male interest.Either in situation, Warners has situated the kidpic nicely, because it is already cumed a effective $49 million by midweek overseas.Fox, meanwhile, is giving "AlienInch a substantial worldwide push a couple of days ago, debuting the 3 dimensional retrofit in 61 areas day-and-date, including Australia, South usa, France, Mexico, Russia as well as the U.K. Pic will make a play to get the best overseas positioning, dislodging current champion "Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol," which has collected $420.8 million worldwide by Feb. 12.In your area, the weekend's new records face a greater bar competing against last year's top trio, which first demonstrated at north of $25 million."The Vow," from helmer Michael Sucsy (TV's "Grey Gardens"), is most sluggish with males under 25, though that doesn't always consider date crowds. In contrast, "Dear John" carried out best on Friday of the opening weekend, before sinking a little 9% in the morning.U's R-rated "Safe House" should attract mostly over-25 moviegoers, put in a effective contingency of ethnic auds based on appeal for star Denzel Washington. Twenty-six percent of African-Us citizens listed "Safe House" their first choice, as well as the pic has attracted 14% first-choice votes among Latinos."Safe House," which set you back a reported $85 million, also launches a couple of days ago in 25 overseas areas. It'll begin leaving using the relaxation around the world on Feb. 17.Among the weekend's holdovers, soph-sesh game game titles "Chronicle" and "The Woman in Black" use hold well after their solid openings. "Lady," which has made $24.3 million through Wednesday, frequently visit a steeper drop-off -- conventional most horror photos. "Chronicle" showed up at $26.6 000 0000 within the first six days.U's family repeat player, "Large Miracle," will face stiff competition a couple of days ago, searching to combine $tens of millions of in your area.Striking an important B.O. mark this year's week, Sony's "The Woman While using Dragon Tattoo" surpassed $200 million in worldwide grosses, evenly split between domestic and abroad tallies.In limited release, Millennium Entertainment's crime drama "Rampart," starring Woodsy Harrelson, launches at five U.S. locations, while an Oscar-nominated pair, The brand new the new sony Pictures Classics' "In Darkness" (for foreign-language film) and GKids' "Chico and Rita" (animated feature), also bow. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com