BadMotorHamster
G-Force takes the cake this weekend narrowly beating out Harry Potter. The two movies grossed just over the $30 million mark for the weekend. The Ugly Truth wasn’t far behind and Orphan took a distant fourth and was the last of the opening movies to make the top slots. Holdover movies are still doing very well with Ice Age and Transformers taking a very close 5th and 6th. The Hangover continues to out perform the newer movies with Bruno, (500) Days of Summer, and Public Enemies, all of which opened a month after Hangover, unable to overtake it at the box office. To be fair though (500) Days of Summer is still a limited release and is playing in only 85 theaters, being squeezed out by the big names and the big films much like In the Loop which opened in a reported 8 theaters, but still managed a decent showing, making the highest average per theater of any movie in box office lists, at over $25,000.
TW LW Title (click to view) Studio Weekend Gross % Change Total Gross Week # 1 N G-Force BV $32,152,000 – $32,185,000 1 2 1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince WB $30,000,000 -61.5% $221,834,000 2 3 N The Ugly Truth Sony $27,000,000 – $27,000,000 1 4 N Orphan WB $12,770,000 – $12,770,000 1 5 2 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Fox $8,200,000 -53.3% $171,291,000 4 6 3 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen P/DW $8,000,000 -41.6% $379,090,000 5 7 6 The Hangover WB $6,465,000 -20.9% $247,077,000 8 8 5 The Proposal BV $6,423,000 -22.5% $140,086,000 6 9 7 Public Enemies Uni. $4,170,000 -46.2% $88,096,000 4 10 4 Bruno Uni. $2,719,000 -67.3% $56,516,000 3 11 12 (500) Days of Summer FoxS $1,630,000 +95.3% $3,004,000 2 12 8 Up BV $1,609,000 -49.3% $283,612,000 9
Source: BoxOfficeMojo.com