Audiences chose “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa” over Oscar hopefuls this weekend as Johnny Knoxville‘s raunchy comedy laughed its way to an opening estimated at $32 million.
The R-rated road-trip romp from MTV Films and Paramount took the top slot from 3D space epic “Gravity” and Tom Hanks‘ “Captain Phillips.” The awards contenders, which skew toward an older audience, had finished first and second for the past two weekends, and “Gravity” had won the last three. But this week Knoxville’s sleazy geezer tale – the first broad comedy in theaters since summer’s “We’re the Millers” – stole the show.