May 18 2009Weekend Box Office: Tom Hanks Narrowly Beats Out Kirk
These films were considered the "top" movies of the weekend:
1. Angels & Demons - The only major new release this weekend took in $48 million, barely besting Star Trek and making far less than The Da Vinci Code's $77 million opening. Ron Howard really should have caved to studio pressure to add more albinos. Unless there were more albinos in this but they just weren't in the trailer, in which case they really should have sold us on those albinos.
2. Star Trek - $43 million, bringing it within $4 million of Wolverine's total gross, but still no closer to my mom not calling it Star Track.
3. X-Men Origins: Wolverine - $14.8 million, a drop of another 44%, but a fall that is reportedly still not affecting sales of Wolverine X-Treme Capuccinos.
4. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past - $6.9 million. Remember when Matthew McConaughey was in Amistad?
5. Obsessed - $4.5 million, putting the sleeper hit over $40 million above its $20 million budget, not to mention how much it's made in Beyonce action figure sales.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Reader Comments
1. B.C - May 18, 2009 12:58 PM
I thought i had the only mom who calls it Star Track
2. che-che - May 18, 2009 1:01 PM
didnt even know that angels and demons, was out. i went and rudo y cursi instead.
3. William Shatner - May 18, 2009 2:20 PM
Angels & Demons blows. It totally tried to go down on me while I was waiting in line at the concession to get a medium Pepsi and a box of Whoppers. Fuckin' bullshit ass BAD MOVIE. Plus Tom Hanks still looks like a strung out junkie in this film...just with shorter hair.
4. M - May 19, 2009 4:06 AM
my mum calls it Star Track too! whyyyyyyyyyyy
5. flicster - May 19, 2009 12:36 PM
Hahaha ... my friend's mom called it Star Track, too! When we young and would bother her, she'd always say "Go play with your Star Track toys." and we'd be like, "First of all, it's not Star Track, it's Star TREK and second of all, we have Star Wars toys, not Star Trek!". Sheesh ... moms -- they just don't get nerdy stuff.
6. Rhialto - May 19, 2009 2:02 PM
I expected more but not bad for Angels and Demons!
7. Darth - May 19, 2009 2:05 PM
That's more than i made last year.But at least i got a headache and a pimple on my nose for free.
8. TommyP - May 22, 2009 8:19 AM
Yeah, but was Matthew McC SHIRTLESS in Amistad?