Semi-Pro was number one at the Box Office this weekend, grossing just $15 million in an even weaker than expected showing.  Overall, it was the lowest-grossing weekend in three months.

The New Line release averaged a decent $4,906 from 3,121 sites but did not match the numbers of the funnyman’s other recent hits like Blades of Glory ($33M), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ($47M), and Anchorman ($28.4M).

Great, maybe Hollywood will learn something from this.  Haha, just kidding of course.

Those were all rated PG-13 allowing the comedian’s teen fans to buy tickets while Semi-Pro carried the more restrictive R which most likely affected ticket sales. It was the lowest gross for a number one film since Jodie Foster’s The Brave One which debuted to $13.5M last September. [Source]

Oh right, it was Rated R – that must be it.  Here I was thinking the poor showing had something to do with a script that looks like it came from the reject pile of Ferrell’s last four sports movies, or possibly the insipid marketing campaign, or maybe the 15 different taglines that all managed to include the word "Fro".  Nope!  Obviously it failed because 15-year-olds can’t get tickets to R-Rated movies – I mean, that’s like trying to divide by zero or finding a word that rhymes with orange.  If they’d only hired some movie ticket salesmen as airport security, 9/11 probably would’ve never happened.