Aug 17 2009Weekend Box Office Report: Everything with the Word 'District' in the Title Did Great
Sci-fi social commentary faced off against sci-fi marriage last weekend, and it's now clear we're far more likely to see a District 10 than we are a Time Traveler Jr.'s Wife:
1. District 9 - $37 million. That already makes back the $30 million budget, so now they can just waste the rest on snacks.
2. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra - $22.5 million. Down almost 60% from opening weekend to be beaten by a film with 1/6th the budget? Maybe the inevitable G.I. Joe sequel can learn a lesson from this and be twice as loud next time.
3. The Time Traveler's Wife - $19.2 million. Really should have just focused on the time traveler himself; I would argue his ability to time travel makes him more interesting than the wife, in a way.
4. Julie & Julia - $12.4 million. Probably could have made twice as much if they'd done it like Kill Bill and released Julie as one movie and Julia a few months later.
5. G-Force - $6.9 million. Shouldn't this movie be screaming for me to buy it on Disney DVD and Blu-ray by now?
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Reader Comments
1. me - August 17, 2009 6:18 PM
first
2. Fiona - August 17, 2009 6:32 PM
District 9 was intense, heartbreaking, and had an awesome mecha seamlessly woven into the plot... prior to viewing, I didn't even know I wanted to see mechas. A real eye-opener.
3. Hey Hey - August 17, 2009 9:34 PM
Man, I have to see District 9.. it's great it didn't bomb, in every magazine there's practically a whole biography about the director, makes you root for him
4. District 9=AWESOME - August 17, 2009 10:20 PM
I've always thought the sequel to The Time Traveler's Wife would be The Time Traveler's Illegitimate Son which focusus on the time traveler cheating on his wife and end up having a son who end up being his father in-law.
5. Nate - August 17, 2009 11:22 PM
Saw GI-Joe today and I thought it was pretty damn good!
6. wedding car - August 18, 2009 6:20 AM
good .eeeeeeeee looks awful..and terrible.
7. Ptentacle - August 18, 2009 8:12 AM
Poor, poor Ponyo. I saw it. I loved it. I married it. It cheated on me and took everything i owned to go live with some surfer on the west coast. But you know what she took that was most valuable? My heart......my heart.
Ponyo is a beautiful film.
8. Pat - August 18, 2009 8:32 AM
@7 And why hasn't anyone mentioned "Ponyo"? It debuted at #9 and raked in $3,868 per theater — showing on less than 1,000 screens! Not to mention the $183 million it already made overseas.
9. bribios - August 18, 2009 2:36 PM
That's actually a pretty good average considering that I, like most people, have heard pretty much nothing about it.
District 9 was absolutely fantastic. I need to stop hanging out with so many girls, all they wanted to see was TTW. Or I need to hang out with girls who would actually be interested in movies like D9, which would be an automatic 1.5 points on the 1-10 scale.
10. Brian - August 18, 2009 9:24 PM
bribios....
Nice try. Sitting in with your mom's book club does not count as hanging out with girls.
11. frank - August 19, 2009 2:21 PM
Hahaha, about time a serious sci-fi movie takes the fucking cake from all these half-cocked "action" movies, insultingly bad kids movies, and dumb chick flicks.