Jul 27 2009Talking Guinea Pigs Last Weekend's Most Popular Film Subject
Here's last weekend's box office top five. Rattle these numbers off at your next party to show your guests you assign some of your memory to remembering how well The Ugly Truth performed financially.
1. G-Force - $32.2 million. The CGI rodent + speech formula continues to work disgustingly well.
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - $30 million. The star that has all its fan see it opening night burns fastest, Harry.
3. The Ugly Truth - $27 million. Now we can stop those commercials where the characters' actions are arbitrarily assigned gender points? How does Gerard Butler winking earn a point for men?
4. Orphan - $12.8 million. I didn't see this, but I heard about the ending, and it's simultaneously both more out-there and more grounded than I ever would have thought.
5. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - $8.2 million. It seems unfair Orphan got flack for discouraging adoption but Ice Age didn't. Think about if you adopted a kid and had to take them to see Ray Ramano as a mammoth.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Reader Comments
1. Pat - July 27, 2009 3:47 PM
I still say GW should sue over the tag line.
2. wendy - July 27, 2009 4:12 PM
Iwatchstuff has covered the strangest movie ever, but what about the strangest beginning? I'd like to know.
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4. Jill - July 27, 2009 4:53 PM
I don't get it, 3 different movie sites made a huge deal about the hamster movie "killing" the Harry Potter movie at the box office, but it only made 2 million more then a movie that's almost been out for three weeks.. or was it two? (didn't it come out on a Wednesday?)
5. stucco - July 27, 2009 5:04 PM
WTF
Think about it, people that G-Force was targeted at probably can't read so that is why it beat potter.
6. bribios - July 27, 2009 5:28 PM
Awesome reference to the Ugly Truth commercial. I know too many girls who actually think that crap is clever.
7. jibber jabber - July 27, 2009 5:33 PM
I saw the latest Harry Potter movie and that kid is getting old!
What's he trying to do, get his PHD. in wizardry? How long is he going to stay at that high school?
8. 3v1lM1nD - July 27, 2009 6:17 PM
I still don`t get the picture of some talking hamsters ....
9. orb205 - July 27, 2009 7:46 PM
I still don't really understand what The Ugly Truth is about. They turn each other on for 2 hours? The guy is also a "man whore"? Is that it?
10. Kat - July 28, 2009 11:10 AM
I'm honestly going to say I'm going to see G-Force, but only 'cause their guinea pigs. >.>
11. chiefs312001 - July 28, 2009 1:20 PM
whose guinea pigs? their guinea pigs? ohhh....you mean "they're"