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Box Office: Inglourious Basterds Kills at Number One!!!
Quentin Tarantino’s World War II “Nah-Zee” killing movie battled its way to #1 with a 37.6 million dollar opening, combining with Foregin totals, it has a world wide total of $65.1 million!!.
This weekends other new openings ‘Shorts’ came in at #6 with $6.6 million and ‘Post Grad’ at #10 with $2.8 million.
Last weekends number one ‘District 9′ fell to #2 with $18.9 million, and G.I. Joe down to #3 with $12.5 million.
Weekends Top 10:
1 – Inglourious Basterds – $37,602,000
2 – District 9 TriS $18,900,000
3 – G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra – $12,500,000
4 – The Time Traveler’s Wife – $10,025,000
5 – Julie & Julia – $9,000,000
6 – Shorts – $6,600,000
7 – G-Force – $4,205,000
8 – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – $3,515,000
9 – The Ugly Truth – $2,850,000
10 – Post Grad – $2,800,000
Next weekend we see the releases of the craptastic looking ‘The Final Destination’ and Rob Zombie’s ‘ Halloween II’.
Box Office: District 9 Can’t Keep Humans Out
It was Alien’s vs elite Army group this weekend, and the Aliens won out. Peter Jackson’s “District 9″ came in at #1 with $37 million dollars making back its budget of $30 million. Last weekends top earner “G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra” fell to #2 with $22.5 million.
The Rachel McAdams/Eric Bana led movie came in at #3 with $19.2 million, “Julie & Julia” fell to #4 with $12.4 million, and “G-Force” rounds out the top 5 with $6.9 million.
Summit Entertainment’s “BandSlam” came in at #13 with $2.2 million, which means not even the draw of the newest “New Moon” trailer was enough to get this movie into the top 10.
Weekends’ Top 10
1 District 9 – $37,000,000
2 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra – $22,500,000
3 The Time Traveler’s Wife – $19,205,000
4 Julie & Julia – $12,400,000
5 G-Force – $6,908,000
6 The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard – $5,350,000
7 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – $5,155,000
8 The Ugly Truth – $4,500,000
9 Ponyo – $3,506,000
10 (500) Days of Summer – $3,025,000
Next up is the Brad Pitt helmed “Inglourious Basterds”, “Post Grad” and “Shorts” all out of Friday Aug 21st.
Box Office: G.I. Joe Takes #1 Spot
Despite not having an advanced press screening, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra still debuted at #1 with $56.2 million. This falls on the the low scale of opening weekends if you compare to this summers Transformers, Harry Potter 6 and Star Trek.
Last weekends number one ‘Funny People’ fell to #5 with $7.8 million. This weekends other newcomer ‘Julie and Julia’ debuted at #2 with 20.1 million, well ‘G-Force’ stayed at #3 with $9.8 million and ‘Harry Potter and Half Blood Prince’ fell to #4 with $8.8 million brings its WorldWide total to $766.8 million.
Weekends Top 10
1 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra – 56,200,000
2 Julie & Julia – $20,100,000
3 G-Force – $9,804,000
4 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – $8,880,000
5 Funny People – $7,866,000
6 The Ugly Truth – $7,000,000
7 A Perfect Getaway – $5,765,000
8 Aliens in the Attic – $4,000,000
9 Orphan – $3,730,000
10 (500) Days of Summer – $3,725,000
Next up for a Aug 14th release we have Peter Jackson’s ‘Distract 9′, the romance ‘The Time Travler’s Wife’, Jeremy Piven in ‘The Goods’, and Summit Entertainment’s ‘BandSlam’ which is going to feature an exclusive look at ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’!!
Box Office: G-Force Dethrowns Harry Potter
Ahh, the power of Jerry Bruckheimer. Hi kids action movie managed to throw Harry Potter from the number 1 spot this weekend with $32.1 million. The 6th Harry Potter film moved down to #2 with $30 million. Box Office experts were expecting Harry Potter to hold on to the number one spot with G-Force debuting number two.
This weekend’s other newcomers ‘The Ugly Truth’ opened at #3 with $27 million and ‘The Orphan’ opened at #4 with $12.7 million. Rounding out the top top 5, Ice Age 3 fell to #5 with $8.2 million.
In its second weekend of release, ‘Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince’ has managed to pull in $627.1 million,making it the fourth highest grossing movie for 2009.
Weekends Top 10
1 G-Force – $32,152,000
2 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – $30,000,000
3 The Ugly Truth – $27,000,000
4 Orphan – $12,770,000
5 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs – $8,200,000
6 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – $8,000,000
7 The Hangover – 6,465,000
8 The Proposal – $6,423,000
9 Public Enemies – $4,170,000
10 Bruno – $2,719,000
Coming out on July 31st, we have the craptastic looking ‘Aliens in the Attic’ and ‘Funny People’ the 3rd offering from Judd Apatow.
| 1 | N | G-Force | BV | $32,152,000 | - | 3,697 | - | $8,697 | $32,185,000 | - | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | WB | $30,000,000 | -61.5% | 4,325 | - | $6,936 | $221,834,000 | $250 | 2 |
| 3 | N | The Ugly Truth | Sony | $27,000,000 | - | 2,882 | +2,717 | $9,368 | $27,000,000 | $38 | 1 |
| 4 | N | Orphan | WB | $12,770,000 | - | 2,750 | - | $4,644 | $12,770,000 | - | 1 |
| 5 | 2 | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | Fox | $8,200,000 | -53.3% | 3,300 | -517 | $2,485 | $171,291,000 | $90 | 4 |
| 6 | 3 | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | P/DW | $8,000,000 | -41.6% | 3,237 | -620 | $2,471 | $379,090,000 | $250 | 5 |
| 7 | 6 | The Hangover | WB | $6,465,000 | -20.9% | 2,285 | -382 | $2,829 | $247,077,000 | $35 | 8 |
| 8 | 5 | The Proposal | BV | $6,423,000 | -22.5% | 2,779 | -264 | $2,311 | $140,086,000 | $40 | 6 |
| 9 | 7 | Public Enemies | Uni. | $4,170,000 | -46.2% | 2,291 | -827 | $1,820 | $88,096,000 | $100 | 4 |
| 10 | 4 | Bruno | Uni. | $2,719,000 | -67.3% | 1,895 | -864 | $1,435 | $56,516,000 | - | 3 |
Box Office: Harry Potter Sets New WorldWide Record
‘Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince’ has broken and set another box office record.
The 6th Harry Potter movie has set a new record for 5 day opening (worldwide), bringing in $396.7 million dollars!!! This beats the old record set by 2007’s Spiderman 3 which had brought in $381.7 million worldwide in its 5 day opening.
The film had also broken the midnight sales record of $18 million set by 2008’s ‘The Dark Knight’ by bring in $22.2 million dollars.
