May 26 2009'Ben Stiller Battling Cameos in a New Venue' Beats 'Terminators'
Between barbecues and solemn remembrance on this four-day weekend, the following movies were most patronized:
1. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - $70 million, showing a massive outpouring of support for this finale to the Indian in the Cupboard trilogy.
2. Terminator Salvation - $53.8 million. You'd think a powerful partnership with Pizza Hut would have been enough to push the film into first place. It worked so well for reading.
3. Star Trek - $29.4 million, bringing it well within reach of becoming the summer's first $200 million blockbuster. Unless, as I'm predicting, The Soloist really picks up this week.
4. Angels & Demons - $27.7 million, dropping from first to fourth. What a slap in the Hanks.
5. Dance Flick - $13.1 million. There was a time when a horrible, Wayans Brothers-written comedy could have a summer opening at #2. How times have changed since Little Man.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Reader Comments
1. Dan - May 26, 2009 12:59 PM
Not again!
2. Nick - May 26, 2009 12:59 PM
Indian in the Cupboard was SO much better than any of the Night at the Museum movies.
Also, I don't believe these numbers count Terminator's midnight pull on Thursday, which makes it a slightly less embarassing total of something like 67 million.
3. TetterkeT - May 26, 2009 1:07 PM
Terminator -- worst movie EVAR.
4. Lolocaust - May 26, 2009 4:00 PM
Terminator wasn't that bad, especially compared to Rise of the Machines or what the fuck ever they called terminator 3. Whine less.
5. Gando - May 26, 2009 4:14 PM
I liked the Night at Museum (2006),looking forward for this one!
6. Darth - May 26, 2009 4:17 PM
I did expect a better opening from Terminator Salvation but it's still a shitload of money.
7. Rhialto - May 26, 2009 4:23 PM
I'm wondering what the budget of Star Trek was! I think it was pretty big! Are they making profit now?
8. Beastman AIDS - May 26, 2009 4:50 PM
Night at the Museum is beating Terminator?
Christ I give up. I'm going home to hang myself because this world is doomed.
@#2
Indian in the cupboard was FREAKIN AWESOME.
9. Matt - May 27, 2009 3:14 AM
@7: Last think I heard was that the budget was 150 million. Which it pretty much has made back now so we can all see a sequel in the next couple years..which Im highly excited about.
Terminator SUCKED! It was sooo hyped up and I let movie theater dissapointed (and this seems to be the consensus from what I've seen). Word of mouth is gonna kill it for next week and beyond.