Jul 20 2009Your Weekend Box Office Top Five
Use these weekend box office figures to determine if you, a studio executive, can afford that new boat:
1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - The only way a Harry Potter movie wouldn't open at #1 is if people's heads started exploding when watching the Quidditch scenes. But that didn't happen, so it made $79.5 million
2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - $17.7 million. Time to move on beyond the Ice Age and use CGI and Ray Romano to make a representation of EVERY age, so that we can finally throw away our history books and replace them all with charming family films.
3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - $13.8 million, easily besting last week's winner, Bruno, even though, if you pay attention, this film actually has far more exposed penises.
4. Bruno - $8.3 million, taking a massive, 73% drop. I guess the old Irish guy's admonition worked in scaring everyone off.
5. The Hangover - $8.3 million. I had no idea this would remain in the top 5 for so long. There's absolutely nothing else to comment about it. You win, The Hangover.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Reader Comments
1. Niggler - July 20, 2009 1:31 PM
Lol on the hangover, dont let it beat you. Anyway.......i really can't stand harry potter. i mean it wouldn't be so bad but that kid who plays harry potter is just so bad i can't believe a single thing this guy does. If there was a small chance i would have liked harry potter that daniel kid ruined it for me.
2. Ben - July 20, 2009 2:18 PM
It would still open at #1. The exploding heads might hurt the second weekend slightly.
3. IM a Flaming homo - July 20, 2009 3:39 PM
I want daniel radclif to dress up like harry potter and double fist my anus. i wont mind the pain or a little blood. maybe he can cast a spell all over my chest.
4. Zee Brat - July 20, 2009 3:42 PM
Word of mouth is really keeping the Hangover alive. It's the new Wedding Crashers.
5. Pat - July 20, 2009 4:24 PM
Great picture. WTF?!
6. Zsa Zsa - July 20, 2009 5:59 PM
Actually, even with the heads exploding it would still open at #1 - at that point the people would have paid already for the tickets!
7. Gab - July 20, 2009 10:38 PM
Some HP fan's heads seem to have exploded - happy, not happy, etc...! I just enjoy it as is, with my son. See us review HBP together at: www.youtube.com/gabndad
8. Species 8472 - July 21, 2009 12:55 PM
I thought Hangover was pretty funny. Bruno didn't seem as good as Borat to me. Harry Potter movies seem like a bunch of fluff, like the bloated last hour of Transformers 2.