Weekend B.O.

By Sergio, on July 5th, 2009

It was a neck and neck race this week, but Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs edged out Transformers 2 which dropped over 60% at the box office this week. Michael Mann’s Public Enemies had a strong showing to the relief of Mann and Universal Pictures. But the real surprise is The Hangover. With over $200 million so far, and a lot left to go, it’ll gross more than Star Trek and will be considered the bigger hit since it cost only $25 million to make. A lot for you and me, but a pittance for a Hollywood studio

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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE

July 3–5, 2009

1) Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Fox $42,500,000 Total: $67,506,000

2) Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen P/DW $42,500,000 Total: $293,459,000

3) Public Enemies Uni.$26,172,000 Total: $41,044,000

4) The Proposal BV $12,779,000 Total: $94,233,000

5) The Hangover WB $10,415,000 Total: $204,197,000

6) Up BV $6,579,000 Total: $264,873,000

7) My Sister’s Keeper WB $5,255,000 Total: $25,964,000

The Taking of Pelham 123 Sony $2,500,000 Total: $58,471,000

10) Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Fox $2,100,000 Total: $167,763,000

9) Year One Sony $2,100,000 Total: $38,088,000

11) Star Trek Par. $1,815,000 Total: $249,847,000

12) Away We Go Focus $1,100,000 Total: $6,074,000

Daryle Lockhart

July 5th, 2009 at 4:09 pm · Reply

Yeah there was sorta no way for Transformers to keep up that kind of momentum. This will pretty much guarantee a third movie, though.

Ice Age may be a bigger hit than we realize, because, has anyone here without kids seen any promotion for this picture? I haven’t even seen trailers anywhere but on Nick and Cartoon Network. Fox may have found a great way to ptomote using existing channels.

Or, maybe the falloff of Transformers was so big that anything new would have taken #1 this week. Yeah, I’ll roll with that.

Tambay

July 5th, 2009 at 10:09 pm · Reply

Damn… I was hoping negative word of mouth would really hurt “Transformers.” I guess not… $42 million is a lot for a second week.

Meanwhile, “Pelham 123″ hasn’t done as well as expected.

Bruno opens this week, so I’m guessing it’ll be number 1.

Madame Zenobia

July 5th, 2009 at 11:09 pm · Reply

I\’m mad that Trans2 has had such negative reviews and such. I mean, I\’m willing to shirk Michael Bay and his production steeze for my Starscream and Megatron; but I was told by many friends that it was cheesy and too kiddy…and of course there\’s the discussions online about the jigging, shucking and jiving. I\’m just about it because I really wanted it to be good and I really wanted to see it. But a friend of mine, die-hard 80s cartoon nutzoid who failed to see the shortcomings of the first feature (because his stan-ism is just that \’skrong\’), well even HE told me it was bad… *weeps* I wanted it to be great; I really did. *crosses fingers for GIJoe*