Ashton Kutcher in animated form defeated flesh-and-blood Ashton Kutcher at the box office this weekend. Open Season the debut feature of Sony Picture Animation earned $23 million this weekend, topping The Guardian's $17.7 million take. In the former, Kutcher plays a deer sidekick to an animated Martin Lawrence. In the latter he plays a wetsuit-wearing sidekick to Kevin Costner's Coast Guard rescue diver. It is unclear at this time if this represents a widespread preference for Kutcher vehicles in which Kutcher doesn't appear or how much the box office for Open Season was boosted by aging indie rock fans turning out to hear new Paul Westerberg songs.