Jun 1 2009'Up' Was Your Favorite Movie Last Weekend
The weekend box office report. Email me for the Excel version.
1. Up - $68.2 million, because Pixar could animate a cockfight and it would still open huge. Especially in Latin America.
2. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - $25.5 million, bringing its total gross to over $100 million and popularizing use of the saying, "It was no night at the museum!", used to refer to nights that did not include exhibits spontaneously gaining consciousness.
3. Drag Me to Hell - Only $16.6 million. Where are all the teenagers taking dates to scary movies so that when the girl cowers in fear against the boy, he can give a sly grin and put his arm around her? Popular media led me to believe that happens constantly.
4. Terminator Salvation - $16.1 million--just enough to save humanity. We did it.
5. Star Trek - $12.8 million in gold-pressed latinum! Get it? Star Trek reference. The guy with the ears always talked about it.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Reader Comments
1. bribios - June 1, 2009 4:24 PM
Oh those teenagers were there in my theater. They wouldnt shut the fuck up through the whole movie.
2. social historian - June 1, 2009 8:04 PM
teenager is the new black
3. jaime - June 2, 2009 12:07 AM
because Pixar could animate a cockfight and it would still open huge.
so true!
except the latin america thing. it would only be huge in mexico and central america, not the whole of latin america.
4. gambler - June 2, 2009 9:16 AM
Drag me to hell was actually really good. reminiscent of old raimi stuff.
go see it
5. Pat - June 2, 2009 11:47 AM
With that much latinum you could stay in a holosuite for a week!
6. Rhialto - June 2, 2009 3:47 PM
That's a good start for "Up"! I bet it was an expensive movie to make."Terminator Salvation" isn't going that bad. Till now most of the income is domestic,foreign has yet to come in.